Welcome home visit and local notes from county correspondence
Miss Mary Francis Brewer visits kin in town and explores East Texas Oil Field. Locals discuss Howard Payne graduates and snowball talk on a mountain trip. Regional news covers cotton crops, travel to San Antonio and Glen Rose, and viewpoints on international affairs with pro Anglo white supremacy rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Francis Brewer
S. Brewer
Mary Francis
East Texas
J. W. Robbins
W. C. Jones
M. C. Reese
E. H. Kothmann
Ruth
Howard Kothmann
Howard Payne
Brownwood
Loree Kothmann
Loree
G. R. Lister
San Antonio
O. D. Price
Tom Amberson
Glen Rose
Amberson
Texas Roads Lead Nation In Rural Primary System
Texas topped national charts in rural primary road mileage and low type surfaced roads according to the U S Bureau of Public Roads last year. Texas totaled 20 953 miles in rural primary state system and 9 740 miles of low type surfaces while Kansas led overall surface road gains and New York Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania outranked in hard surfaced mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Lone Star
Ohio
Minnesota
Kansas
Oklahoma
Taxes From Birth to Death Taxation Burden Across Life
The Twentieth Century Funds estimates the total tax burden on the average person from birth to death at 12.5 billion dollars across federal state and local levels. It details taxes on soap and tooth cleansers yearly as 4.53 million dollars, hides 172 taxes in medicines, taxes on milk and wheat, a roast meat tax, and fifty three taxes totaling 2 cents per loaf of bread.
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Twentieth Century Funds
Institute
Hidden taxes bite across goods and services cited
The note catalogs taxes on various items from shoes to theatre tickets and travel. It warns of a heavy tax load with explicit percentages and fixed amounts, highlighting liquor, cigarettes, and death duties as especially burdensome while pointing to inheritance tax as an additional unseen cost.
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Mark Norris
Grand Rapids
Mich
Knights Templar
Order
Miami
Fla
Andrew Jackson Agnew
Milwaukee
Wis Norris
By Percy Crosby
Santa Ana
California
Bill Cummins
Weslaco
Bill
F. I. Cummins
London
Japan
China
Gardless
Massachusetts
United States
England
Brooks Dairy
Brooks’ Dairy Milk
Jour Fine Restaurants
Comeenisullt
Franks High
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Junction Cattle Loan Co
Junction, Texas
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor Division
General Motors Sales Corporation
Detroit, Michigan
General Motors
the Highland Chevrolet Company
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