Texas urged to boost milk cows and nutrition amid war talk
A Texas dairy and nutrition appeal calls for 250000 more milk cows to feed 125000 farms lacking cattle and 304166 households needing an egg a day. Texas A&M data shows 3282000 residents on deficient diets with Pellegra deaths rising, urging conservation of livestock as essential for peace and national readiness.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Europe
The
Texas Dairy Products Association
Texas A & M College
Independence Day 1940 and the road to preparedness
The piece links Francis Scott Key’s war era verse to 1940 while urging national mobilization. It argues peace must be matched with preparedness, stressing a mobile army, rapid transport, and a strengthened highway system to meet wartime needs and defend rights across two oceans.
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Francis Scott Key
United States
Europe
America
United States Army
UT Student Jack Bostick Shows Puppetry Skills in Community Outreach
Jack Bostick of Waco, UT student, is skilled at manipulating puppets and regularly performs his own shows for student and town audiences. Eagles construct six foot diameter nests, with many found by Texas Game Wardens and biologists. Santa Rosa plums for sale by Pecan Belt Nursery in Fredericksburg, Texas before stock runs out.
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University of Texas
Jack Bostick
Waco
Texas
Pecan Belt Nursery
Fredericksburg
A Long Range Prediction By John Adams
John Adams foresees a day of independence to be celebrated with pomp and devotion across the continent. He writes to Abigail Adams on July 2 1776 predicting future generations will mark the event with lights guns and games, despite the costs of war and preservation of liberty.
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Philadelphia
Britain
John Adams
United States
Abigail
Adams
Edison the Man at the Rialto Theatre
The article notes Spencer Tracy portraying Thomas A Edison in Edison the Man at the Rialto Theatre beginning Sunday and Monday. It highlights his resemblance to Edison and his past roles as Father Flanagan and others, and states the film follows Edison's early life up to the phonograph invention.
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Spencer Tracy
Edison
Rialto Theatre
Father Flanagan
Henry M. Stanley
Tobin Returns Home After Cotulla Visit
R H Tobin returns to Harper from a two month visit with his daughter in Cotulla Texas. The fragment mentions stray phrases about California and oil from grapeseeds, but contains unclear text and potential garbled words.
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R. H. Tobin
Harper
Cotulla
Texas
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