District VFW Convention Set for Kerrville May 28 29
The annual VFW district meeting will be held in Kerrville on May 28 and 29. Activities include hotel registration at Blue Bonnet Hotel and Service Men’s Club, sightseeing bus trips along the Guadalupe river, a Hill Country quarter horse show at Tivy stadium, a dance, a Memorial Service, and a Sunday program with state and national officers. Gillespie County veterans from Frantzen-Ahrens Post will attend.
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V.F.W
Kerrville
Blue Bonnet Hotel
Service Men’s Club
Broadway
South Fork
Guadalupe River
Service Men's Club
Tivy Stadium
Jim Weatherby
Gillespie County
Frantzen-Ahrens Post
Veterans of Foreign
Farm Market Trends Show Mixed Readings Across Southwest May 1949
Mixed week in southwest farm markets with grains and livestock uneven while cotton fell to 1.50 a bale. Lower Rio Grande tomatoes moved heavily but prices slipped. green corn and strawberries softened. eggs and poultry eased. cattle and calves mostly steady to down. hogs slid. sheep showed slight gains. corn and sorghum up modestly. rice firmer. hay unsettled. rains delayed peanut planting.
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Southwest
US Department of Agriculture
Production and Marketing Administration
Dallas
Rio Grande Valley
Arkansas
Louisiana
Fort Worth
Denver
New Orleans
Oklahoma City
Houston
San Antonio
Texas
Oklahoma
SOS for the Honeybee in House hearing on pollination crisis
National witnesses from agriculture agencies warned the decline of honeybees threatens American crops. They linked lower alfalfa and red clover yields to reduced pollination, caused by insecticides and loss of native pollinators, urging federal aid to support bee health and farming.
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House Committee On Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Uncle Sam
Mac A. McCall
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States
McCa
J. H. Davis
Arkansas
Walter A Straub
Chicago
Straub
Gems and wisdom from thinkers with Texas business note
A collage of quotes on self improvement from Webster Froude Goethe Fuller Mary Baker Eddy Horace Mann arranged beside Texas Prudential Life Co marketing text. The ad blurb promotes Dan N Cornett as Hill Country representative with a retirement offer and a Kerrville bakery mention appears at the end.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Horace Mann
Texas Prudential Life CO
Old Line Legal Reserve
Texas Banking & Insurance
Dan N. Cornett Hill Country
KE. College
Fredericksburg
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the Herald
Hartex
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Jane Withers
Jackie Cooper
Columbia
Darryl F. Zannuck
Dana Andrews
20Th Century Fox
America
Will Rogers
Janet Gaynor
20Th Century Fox Picture
Washin
Ton
Agriculture Committee
Nature
Duncan Coffee Company
Sam H. West
Box
Taylor
Texes
Veser
Sra
William
Reezes
Roseland Street
Ashton A. Phillips
Robinson Place
Shreveport, Louisiane
Pries CU
IS Lee
Houston, Texas
Brseaeeads
Daniel Webster
Froude
Goethe
Dan N. Cornett
College Fredericksburg
KERKH
Ville Bakery
Mrs. Raymond Cottle Harper
Cottle’s Cafe
Harper Community
Alex Mittendorf
Prop
Vv. F. W
Sunnyside Tavern
AL & His Highlanders
Mobilgas
Hearts Delight
Bode
Bill's Liquor Store
Harper Road
Aleo
Bill. Voigt
Spring Creek Hall
Harper Fe
Hill Country Boys
Harper Community Park
Clarence Reed
Robert Baker
Adolph Hofner
Mario and
Canuto
Rhythm Ranchers
Ruff Bros
Texaco
Kenneth Parker
Mgr. Harper
Texaco Gas & Oils
Felix T. Tybor
Optometrist
Palace Theatre
Fredericksburg, Texas
Harper Tin & Sheet Metal Works
Bill Kaiser
Harper
Bill
Chas
Mgr
John Deere
Fairbanks Morse
Krauskopf Bros
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