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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
6
Richter attended Houston and San Antonio baseball game in San Antonio Sunday. Mrs J A Hartl has recovered from an operation for the removal of her tonsils.
Dorothy Jean Schuhmann of Houston wins high honors in music at John H. Reagan High School. She earned First Division Ratings at National Regional Vocal Contests in San Antonio and Waco, sings with Girls Glee Club and Girls Sextet, and studies under Charles Musgrove. She is a graduating senior, active in social functions, and well known in Shiner as niece of Mrs. Rudie Valenta.
Shiner Hatchery offers 5.25 dollars buys 6 dollars per 100 chicks during Spring Closing Season ending May 21. Chicks available May 7 May 14 and May 21. Orders should be booked now to ensure pickup on the specified dates. Phone or write for details.
M A Hobbs candidate for representative visited Shiner on Saturday and paid a call at the Gazette Office, a pleasant exchange noted by the staff.
An eastern fashion model, crowned as cotton hosiery queen, poses in one of the first mercerized rifle stockings. The new hose, among 56 types devised by the Department of Agriculture, are marketed as the most attractive cotton stockings yet. Formal debut planned across American department stores during National Cotton Week.
Miss Edna Reischl spent the weekend in Moulton with her parents, visiting relatives and enjoying local sights. The brief social note records a family outing during a quiet weekend.
Mrs Rud Weinert and John nie Jean and T J Ponton of Seguin spent Saturday with Shiner friends. W E Treptow F R Mergenthaler Theo Rogge E J Kempe L E Denmark Dr J W Turek and W C Schmidt attended a Masonic District meeting at Cuero last Friday night. The principal speaker was Judge M A Childers of San Antonio who gave an interesting talk.
Houston oil operator George A. Hill Jr told the Round Table Conference that federal control of oil production would erode state sovereignty, concentrate power, and threaten individual liberties. He warned the National Resources Planning Board’s push toward national energy policy resembles totalitarian control and undermines constitutional rights.
In thirty years US automobile deaths exceed all soldiers killed in action in wars. More than 350,000 killed and 3,000,000 injured, 375,000 permanently. Civil War, World Wars, and other conflicts are dwarfed by car fatalities. totals include 1,316,437 accidental deaths and over 40,000,000 injuries nationwide. See Jos. Mural on Life, Hospitalization, Accident and Health Insurance in Shiner, Texas.
Qualified property tax paying voters in Burnes School District filed a petition seeking an election to cut the current ten cent tax on the hundred dollar valuation to five cents. The County Judge ordered the election for May 25, 1940, naming Frank Tassler Jr. as presiding officer.
Kuhn's Pharmacy advertises Turner's Juno Tablets with a guarantee for kidney or bladder disorders. The box is priced at 50 cents or one dollar, and the ad promises relief from getting up nights, backache, disturbed sleep, dizziness, or rheumatic pains.
An old advertisement promotes Leta’s Gums with a money-back offer through Kuhn Drug Store. The piece shifts to a patriotic reflection praising liberty, God-fearing self-reliance, and American greatness, urging preservation of free institutions and rejection of new prophets in a Nation of liberty-loving people.
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