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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
3
A collage of quips and anecdotes features jokers, a radio repair joke with Mrs. O Hara, a boastful coach, a newlywed finance ploy, school farewells, a missing sense of humor, a temper of lawyers, a turtle as a prewar car, and humorous classroom and church vignettes. It captures vaudeville tone with short, punchy lines and character sketches.
Report of Junction Baptist Church activities with Sunday School times and weekly events. Also notes H E Crawford of Bakersfield California crashed a motorcycle into a Santa Fe freight train and escaped with a skinned knee. Ida Reeman of Indianapolis sues four men for $12500 from a dice game loss.
HOGS estimated receipts 800 with top $6.60 for most good to choice 170 250 lb. cattle: receipts 2,116 total. yearlings up to $9.90 and steer lots to $9.50. Calves strong. killing calves and cows higher. Sheep steady. goats steady with feeder lambs around $5.00 and Angora goats $0.75–$2.00. Feeder stockers active and prices varied by weight.
The 82 inch Mc Donald telescope at the Texas observatory, the largest in the country, will be dedicated May 5 in Austin. Dr. Otto Struve says its southern site and offset mounting give unmatched reach toward the southern sky and enable horizon level operation, expanding stargazing capabilities for UT and Chicago collaboration.
The telescope at McDonald is now the world’s second largest. It will survey the sky broadly though a 30 degree radius around the South Pole remains unviewed. A shade during summer and a sheltered shed in winter improve dairy herd returns.
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