Texas Fur Crop Rise Promises Boost in 1940s
Texas ranks fifth in U S fur production with 729,244 pelts in 1939 and likely more as reports improve. The state agency credits habitat restoration, marsh flooding, and better reporting for the gain, aiming to enlarge muskrat and other fur bearer stocks and revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Lone Star State
Game Department
State Game Department
Lone Star
Extension agents aid Southern Negro farm families
The article notes over five hundred Negro county Extension agents serving Black farming families in the South. It contrasts with a lighthearted dialogue about social visits and a dismissive ending. It also mentions US farms and ranches producing ten times Argentina's annual beef exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
United States
Argentina
Improper Use of Gasoline in Texas Homes
In Austin on November 25 state fire insurance commissioner Marvin Hall warned that improper home gasoline use causes about 50 deaths annually. He cited 36 deaths in the first ten months of 1940, and noted kerosene deaths averaging about 55, with 25 through October 31 this year.
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Austin
Texas
Marvin Hall
Hall
Dairymen Warn On Beef Crossbreeding Threat to Texas Herds
Texas dairymen face rising demand from seven million people and wartime industries. M. E. McMurray warns that crossing top dairy cows with beef cattle risks long term collapse of the dairy industry, citing A and M. figures showing declines in heifers and cow losses to other states.
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Fort Worth
Texas
M. E. McMurray
Texas Dairy Products Association
Texas Dairymen
Lubbock
McMurray
Texas A
M. College
California
Illinois
Nebraska
Corn Belt
The Man with His Poison Gun Poem by Opal M Adams
A poem narrator offers a sinister weapon, the poison gun, to exterminate pests and vermin. It claims wide reach across states and asserts the weapon cleans fields by killing ants, moles, gophers, snakes, rats, and mice with toxic air. The piece ends with a boastful invitation to shout for the approaching gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opal M. Adams
Melody Comes to Town leads cast at Krauskopf Bros screening
Jean Parker heads the cast in Melody Comes to Town to be shown at Peters Hall on Friday December 6 as part of John Deere Day. Admission is by free ticket available at Krauskopf Bros, with five other new talking pictures and educational farm films following the feature.
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Jean Parker
Peters Hall
John Deer Day
Krauskopf Bros
Krauskopfros
Scattergood Baines
Ladies’ Aid Society
Dunham
Lovely Jean Parker
Jackie Moran
Joe Brown Jr
Frank Faylen
Matalie Moorhead
Roscoe Ates
John
Claire Blane
Sheppards
Nine News Ree
John Deere
Miss Dorthy Birt Plans Thanksgiving at Harper
Miss Dorthy Birt of Belton will spend Thanksgiving with her parents Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Birt at Harper.
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Dorthy Birt
Belton
Harper
J. B. Birt
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Dusiness & Professional Directory
R. J. L Bullard
Pampell’s
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Boys’ Life
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the Herald
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Metropolitan Opera Company
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Gertrude Niesen
New York
West Coast
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Castti
H. Welge
Indepen
Lewis
Alex Mittendorf
Aermotor Mills
Fairbanks Morse
Fredericksburg, Texas
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