Palace Theater double bill features Chip of the Flying U and The Return of Doctor X
Johnny Mack Brown stars in Chip of the Flying U as a frontier foreman opposing munitions smugglers. The second feature, The Return of Doctor X, stars Humphrey Bogart with Wayne Morris and Dennis Morgan. An extensive lineup includes Rosemary Lane, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart in Destry Rides Again, and Betty Jean Striegler. A Child Is Born closes the program with Geral dine leading and Jeffry Lynn as her husband.
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Palace Theatre
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker
Fuzzy Knight
Doris Weston
The
Texas Rangers
Doctor X
Frankenstein’s Monster
Dr. Moriarity
Mr. Hyde
Humphrey Bogart
Bogart
Wayne Morris
Dennis Morgan
Rosemary Lane
Marlene Dietrich
James Stewart
Destry
Miss Dietrich
Stewart
Charles Winniger
Mischa Auer
Brian Donlevy
Una Merkel
Alen Jenkins
James Hart
Betty Jean Striegler
George Striegler
Fredericksburg
Betty
Eax
Geraldine
Jeffry Lynn
Gladys George
Swanee River Musical Drama Celebrates Foster’s Life
The film blends Foster melodies with his life story, tracing his youth minstrelsy days, early struggles, Christy’s Minstrels performances, marriage to Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, rise to fame, and a joyful family life featuring Don Ameche and co stars.
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Swanee River
Foster
Christy
Jeanie
Don Ameche
Andrea Leeds
al Jolson
George Reed
Hal Johnson
Bruhl Seeks Legislature Seat for 85th District
L L Bruhl announces candidacy for the Texas 85th District representative seat to succeed Alfred Petsch. He pledges to pursue local laws favored by constituents, study each issue, and work for statewide welfare while building cooperation with House colleagues and state departments.
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Gillespie County
Alfred Petsch
House of Representatives
House
State Highway Commission
Rural Texas electrification circus showcases LCRA impact
In Johnson City the Rural Electrification Administration staged a public circus highlighting low cost LCRA power spreading through the Texas hill country. Farmers, ranchers, and youths learned about electrical feed grinders, milking machines, water systems, and home conveniences from washing machines to electric irons.
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PHE
Texas
Austin
Johnson City
Pedernales Electric Cooperative
Cong
Lyndon Johnson
L.C.R.A
Pedernales Co-op
Rural Electrification Administration
Lawrence L. Bruhl Seeks Support in Legislative Campaign
A candidate declares to voters that his aim is to serve lawmaking processes with integrity. He says Congress or state legislature work can shape thought and action and asks for support, promising accountability and gratitude in victory or defeat.
Texas Leads Nation in Helium Production Decline
A Texas report notes helium once valued at $2,500 per cubic foot has fallen to about 7 cents per foot. The article cites Texas as supplying the country's sole helium supply and hints at possible price increases if conditions change.
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Austin
Texas
Moursund Announces Candidacy for 85th District Seat
A. W. Moursund of Johnson City Blanco County Texas seeks the Democratic nomination for representative of the 85th district which spans Blanco Llano Gillespie and Kendall counties. He is named after the late Judge A W Moursund a Texas Ranger former legislator district attorney and district judge noted in Llano Blanco Gillespie Kendall Mason and San Saba counties.
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A. W. Moursund
Johnson City
Blanco County
Texas
Col
Alfred P. C. Petsch
Fredericksburg
Blanco, Llano
Gillespie
Kendall
Blanco
A. W. Mourland
Llano
Mason
San Saba
Moursund
Johnson City, Texas
Maulah
A. N. Moursund
University of Texas
University of Texas School of Law
San Antonio Proclaims Livestock Week For 4-H Show
City of San Antonio proclaims February 19 through 24 1940 as Livestock Week to honor 4-H and Future Farmers of America participants in the Fifth Annual Southwest Texas Boys Fat Stock Show. The proclamation lauds the show for boosting the local livestock industry and improving herd quality and profits. Up the Chisholm Trail clattered.
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Chisholm Trail
San Antonio Livestock Industry Expands With Modern Methods
In San Antonio the live stock trade grew from old to modern methods with cattle goats sheep and meat products boosting the economy. The annual trade value reaches about 17 million dollars with related wages and materials nearing 35 to 40 million dollars. A livestock meeting is planned with a Fat Stock Show and a San Antonio Day event on February 22. College Station notes 181000 shrubs and trees planted in 1939 by Texas home demonstration club women and 4-H girls. many native shrubs survive. Sodding and yards beautification, rose planting, and outdoor living rooms rise in rural Texas as Extension Service reports 70 thousand dollars spent in 1939.
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San Antonio
College Station
Texas Home Demonstration Club
Lone Star State
Sadie Hatfield
A. & M. College Extension Service
Texas
Texas Extension Service
State Monitors Helium Supply Amid Light Aircraft Demand
A Texas expert warns that America's helium stock under government control could tighten use for dirigibles and lighter-than-air craft. He cites Amarillo field estimates of about 18 trillion cubic feet as large but not inexhaustible and urges prudent consumption.
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America
Amarillo
Frontiers of Progress
Sellards
Texas
Six Countries Cut Cotton Textiles Duties Under Trade Program
Under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program six nations reduced duties on cotton textiles and products while three others assured they would not raise duties on such goods.
Texas Oil Reserves Surpass Past Fifty Years Output
Texas reports proven oil reserves of 10.7 billion barrels, exceeding the total oil produced in the state over the last fifty years by more than five billion barrels.
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Texas
Texas oil wells average three barrels daily in old fields
Railroad Commission reports indicate there are twenty three thousand pumping or stripper wells in older Texas oil fields, each averaging only about three barrels of oil per day.
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Texas
Railroad Commission
Cropland Erosion and Poor Quality Worry U.S. Farmers
About 61 percent of U.S. cropland, roughly 253 million acres, is eroding or of such poor quality that it cannot yield satisfactory income for farmers.
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United States
Big Profit Somewhere Between Patch and Drawer
Economist Paul G. Hain es of Texas A&M Extension Service notes that only six cents of a cotton shirt’s dollar represents raw cotton while processing costs and hidden profits inflate prices. He cites Texas as a major producer of carbon black and cotton.
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College Station
Texas
Paul G. Haines
A, and M
College Extension Service
Misread Figures Suggest High Auto Payment Averages
A fragmentary note cites an unclear claim of 79 000 cum average of one pay for each 18 7 sutemobile implying inconsistent units. The text lacks context or verifiable sources and conveys little concrete data.
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Harper
Pr. Leon F. Zwiener Optometrist
J. A. Jackson
Main St
Kerrville
L. L. Bruhl
Wilma Bradshaw
Mildred Striegler
Bert Haynes
Round Mountain
Bill Collins
Liano
Lawrence L. Bruhl
State OF Texas
H. Welgs
Lewis
Alex Mittendorf
Fredericksburg, Texas
John Deere
Aermotor Mills
Fairbanks Morse
Krauskopf Bros
Sinclair Gas and Oils
Milton Petermann
Mgr
Commission CO
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