Local News Brief From Llano Post Office
Printed as second class mail under the 1878 Act and published weekly by Collins & Collins with advance subscription.
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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
3
Printed as second class mail under the 1878 Act and published weekly by Collins & Collins with advance subscription.
A Dallas News excerpt argues delinquency raises taxes on non delinquents, with payers subsidizing debt from the state deficit. It claims 30 percent delinquency estimates require charging $1.50 for every $1 due, shifting costs to honest taxpayers. The piece notes railroad and hotel cash-only practices hinder travel. It ends with observations on the Vano river rise and welcoming visitors.
Splendid rain in Llano County boosts vegetation and happiness while locals anticipate fall prosperity. The piece reflects on schools, civic duty, and lingering Hoover era tax critiques, then lauds the Littlefield Memorial at Austin and Southern heritage figures inspiring American youth.
The piece argues Llano County’s leadership backs Roosevelt’s next moves for the American people amid 1933 economic concerns. It notes Supreme Court’s thirty hour week bill fate is uncertain, praises wool market strength, and urges businesses to solicit local advertising as 1933 opportunities rise.
The article notes Texas will get eighty million dollars from R F C funds to promote self liquidating projects. It questions how Llano County will receive a direct share and suggests ample granite in local quarries could meet building stone needs, implying a regional harvest before funds are exhausted.
A Kansas City manager paid thirty thousand dollars to captors last Sunday to secure his young daughter's release. The speaker condemns foreign-born criminals and contrasts American law with Chinese governance, urging stronger protections and Enlightenment of the populace.
Residents plan to substitute vegetables for peaches and plums as crops run short this summer. Canners will operate in Llano County during the fall, and locals are noted for adapting with contentment. strangers question why abundance persists despite shortages.
A Bertram resident, a young Norwegian, finished a quilt for the Chicago World’s Fair. The piece centers on the signers of the Declaration of Independence with presidents from Washington to Roosevelt around the edges. The Bertram Enterprise notes the craft and patience deserving a $1,200 prize from the art museum.
A long list of students by grade from first to seventh, including Lillian Bauer Belva Jackson Margaret Moss Lacilid Myers Tillian Myers Doris Berry Sharon Walker Anna Belle Walker Junior Brown James Neats Tommy Fowler Ha eiwood Billie Johnson John Smith Behrns Willbern Harold Smith Dorman Nichols Cecil Leverett Tye Hil Barnett Henry Buttery Scott Duncan Thomas Dunaway Joe Hart George Epperson C L Taylor Franklin Willborn Vivian Buttery Davie Burton Viola Cox Peggy Teckert Jane Wallace Dunn Mary Nell Johnson Oma Ratliff Charlie Smith Laura Smith Louise Stotts Anne Kirby Herman Miller Raesener Minnie Putman Doris Buttery Charlotte Mayen Rizetta Smith Annie Lee McMullen LaVerne Ahrens Vernon West Lila Thomas James Epperson Billie Duff Muriel Farr Anna Garrett Joyce Fry Marguerite Ann Lofton Dorothy Schuessier Jane Watkins Arthur Gray Harold Buttery James Moss Inks Robbie Keyser Harry Nichols Jack Tatterean Moses Tyler Simpson Corinne Fry Marguerite Ann Porch Dorothy Schuessier Marjorie West Jane Watkins And more across grades.
Janet Gaynor remains the most popular screen star for her character work over wardrobe. From Seventh Heaven onward she wears plain costumes reflecting human roles. June 4-6 at the Lantex Theatre she appears mostly in gingham in Tess of The Storm Country opposite Charles Farrell.
The Baptist Church Ladies present an Evening of Entertainment at the high school auditorium next Friday evening June 3. Home talent will be featured with several special attractions announced, promising a lively program in keeping with the title.
A new love team makes its bow in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross. March plays the Prefect of Rome who falls for a Christian girl while Nero’s Rome faces persecution. Miss Landi co stars, lending star power to the epic.
The Sign of The Cross was produced on a gigantic scale with thousands of players elaborate settings and all the features that have made DeMille the most spectacular of motion picture directors compared with The Ten Commandments and The King of Kings.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church will meet Friday afternoon at four o'clock at the church with Mrs. G L Gray as leader. The session topic is China. For rent palace meat market building ring 304R 35-tE-c.
Houston May 30 State Comptroller George H Sheppard expands a new tax enforcement network under emergency laws moving into the far west and midland districts to pursue gas tax evaders He cites annual losses of more than 34 million in gasoline taxes and 1.5 million in cigarette taxes and says officers will trace fuel from refiner to retailer using full interlocking records to curb adulteration and tax avoidance.
A Suwannee Dat editorial extols the newspaper as central to civic life. It argues newspapers guard public welfare by reporting expenses and foreclosures, informing trade, education, health, and religion, and serving as a trusted friend to readers and businesses alike.
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