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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1941
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Worth Howe entertain Mrs G L Cardinal sister of Mrs Howe with daughter Kathleen and son Jerry Lynn.
Doris Mae Hahn of Austin visits grandmother Mrs. R Fairchild and family attends the Wilhelm reunion in Mason. J Green son of Mr. and Mrs. Green of James ranch had appendicitis surgery and is wished a speedy recovery. Lorenz Wendel family Norma Wendel Max Lange family visit Austin. Willice Edwards and son visit Kerrville. Edwards family returns home. Francis Jung and Frederick Dietel leave on business trip to Washington and New York. Mrs Brown Fred Whitewood and Mrs John Whitewood attend Home Demonstration encampment at Junction. Mrs E E Hopf and daughter Bobbe visit Fredericksburg. John S Whitewood and KE Brown on business in San Angelo. Max Hopf returns to Mountain View Sanatorium Kerrville.
The text explains that the house fly is sometimes called the typhoid fly because it spreads typhoid fever. It also notes other diseases carried, such as cholera infantum, dysentery, and tuberculosis, and describes fly life cycles, how they spread germs, and prevention methods including sanitation, screens, traps, and poison. It cites Texas cases in 1938 and stresses collective action to reduce fly populations.
A rugged Texas account recalls two Stevenson stories near Junction about Devil's Sinkhole a cowboy and a boastful hand and a pair of visitors in Kerrville Wednesday night. The first tale features a stranded cowboy rescuing himself from vultures with a lasso and belt of birds. The second centers on a liar cowhand scolded by Coke with a lecture on tall trees and truth.
Washington July 28 1941 Texas Senator Connally introduced a bill to raise the Federal share of old age assistance. Dr A J Altmeyer testified endorsing the measure which aims to equalize pensions by linking state per capita income to federal contributions leading to higher payments in poorer states and lower in wealthier ones. In Texas current pensions run about 14 dollars monthly. the Connally bill would raise this to 27 75 with the same state share.
San Antonio July 25 WPA workers begin verifying registration statements of aliens at Texas ports. Led by Mrs. M K Taylor, the project uses indexes from WPA records to check immigration information filed under the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Operations start in Eagle Pass Brownsville El Paso and will extend to Laredo Del Rio and Galveston with about 75 workers.
Mr and Mrs Otto Rahe and son Harold enjoyed a fishing trip at Roosevelt last week They visited Miss Anna Grosenbacher Mr and Mrs Watkins Tarr and small son James and Mrs A C Wendel while shopping in Kerrville on Saturday. Mrs Albert Sagebiel underwent an operation Monday at Keidel Memorial Hospital and is recovering. Miss Maxine Lange returned home Sunday after visiting relatives in Palestine.
A UT report based on a U S Office of Education survey shows American college students save their families about 50 million dollars yearly through scholarships loans or part time wages. At UT about 60 percent of 11 000 students earn all or part of their expenses and average aid per student is around 55 dollars.
June Texas egg shipments reached 346 cars, up from 182 a year earlier, with 287 cars sent outside the state to New York and California. Poultry and turkey forwarding dropped from 42 to 29 cars. Social notes mention visits among the Oehlers and relatives in Harper and Junction.
Mr and Mrs Victor Wendel and their son Carlton were seen in Fredericksburg last Friday. Oo Max Hopf returned to Kerrville for medical aid and many friends wish him a speedy recovery.
A high relief design features an ornamental plastic snap buckle on the chin strap. The cap keeps water out with an imbedded sponge wire bar processed into the inner rim for a snug seal.
A Raleigh era article notes ice cream contains 80 percent cream and milk products with 4 percent flavor and 0.5 percent stabilizer. It cites 4 billion pounds of milk used yearly for twelve hundred million quarts consumed by Americans, compares calories to lemon pie and angel cake, and debunks air as a factor.
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