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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
6
A collage of old time jokes and quips travels from wisecracks about hair loss and wasps to a camel guide humor and a juror warning. The piece ends noting Germany’s leading rate of personal crisis reports per year.
Texas state police issue travel rules to reduce summer highway casualties for vacation season. The guidance urges sleep, reasonable daily distances, car checks, no highway parking, careful speeds, safe passing with clearance, keeping license, and avoiding hitchhikers.
State Health Officer Dr Geo W Cox cautions that infantile paralysis will likely be more common in the next three to four months. He describes early symptoms such as vomiting fever and muscle stiffness and notes transmission via droplets rather than insects. Immune serum and rest are cited as preventive measures. A separate item mentions bank robbers fleeing to Canada dropping bundles of twenty dollar bills.
Plans for the 53rd Gillespie County Fair include a permanent rodeo arena to be built in front of the grandstand for daily rodeo programs. Ground was broken for a new Hext school auditorium, targeting completion after September with a WPA grant covering about half the $16,000 cost.
An optometrist will conduct a function at Mrs Prank Wilsons office on the follow ing date, the fifteenth, with Aug seventeenth noted for glasses fitting.
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