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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
6
A jumble of quips and cartoons with punchlines about junk men, Old Maids, clock watchers, job applicants, ship crews, teachers, professors, suitors, barbers, hotel guests, traffic cops, cowboys, and a pantry mouse. The snippets mix wordplay, sexual innuendo, and social snapshots reflecting humor and manners of the era.
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Dr. Geo W Cox Texas State Health Officer warns flies spread typhoid infant diarrhea and tuberculosis and cause many deaths. He urges home screening sanitation fly control and sweeping yards to curb breeding in urban rural areas and barnyards. Continuous public effort is essential to reduce mortality this spring and summer.
Texas sportsmen harvest about 25 million annually from the states wildlife and the United States Department of Agriculture values the resources at a high level. The article notes heavy spending on guns ammunition fishing gear fuel and other hunting needs and cites Texas as a leading deer and wild turkey state with many landowners producing game for profit. It highlights conservation efforts led by County Agent R E Homann and suggests wildlife resources could double in ten years with proper stewardship.
An Texas Agricultural Experiment Station study in Beeville shows corn that is topped after silking yields far less grain than untopped corn. After 14 to 38 days post silking, yields drop from 217 to 153 bushels per acre, implying fodder gains do not offset grain losses. Farmers seldom benefit from topping unless feed shortage forces reliance on fodder.
Boston police arrest a man for creating a disturbance when he refused to pay a 70 cent meal. He was booked at headquarters where a small amount of soap was found in his pocket. Thieves posted a poor year with loot totaling about $532000, averaging 13 cents per freight car, the smallest robbery loss on record.
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