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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1936
Page
8
The piece tracks rising federal debt under Roosevelt, projecting a per capita burden near 263 and potential near 300 as 1933–1937 spending exceeds tax receipts. It notes deficits totaling about 32 billion over four years, a debt rise of over 11 billion in three years, and a family average debt increase of about 576.
Veteran statesman Higgs Carter Glass of Virginia condemns attempts to claim Patrick Henry would approve the New Deal. William Bullitt and Stanley Reed praise the living Constitution while Glass defends curbing government enterprise and warns against eroding constitutional limits. Senator Glass spoke at Ashland and confronted Reed’s remarks near Monticello.
Eureka leaders and county papers clash over a $75,000 Post Office in Eureka. Local opposition claims the town already has the county’s best postoffice built recently, while critics urge funding for a city sewage system to improve public utilities.
The Depart ment of Agriculture announced that Argentine corn is being sold in the United States at roughly four cents below prevailing domestic prices. The note highlights how two droughts have driven foreign purchases and affected the American market.
Chicago report by Robert Kratky of the Republican National Committee claims federal indirect taxes rose about 25 percent in the Roosevelt era, totaling over 1,200 hidden levies affecting the average man and 300 more hitting the average woman, with everyday items like underwear soap and razor blades saddled with hefty percentages and fixed sums.
Mrs. Thomas Coyle serves a Sunflower Salad recipe to Republican guests for Gov. Alf Landon’s presidential campaign. The dish uses fruit salad, orange rind, lemon juice, warm water and gelatine, with fruit folded in as it sets. Wallace writes from Chicago about Daniel A. Wallace, uncle of the New Deal secretary of state.
A poem by Theodore F. Bayless questions life for cotton pickers and longing for a better land. It ponders toil pain hunger and weariness and imagines a bright afterlife free from labor where loved ones greet the speaker. The verse contrasts harsh field life with a peaceful promised land.
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