Highway Hightales in a Roadward Tale of Helpers
Editor Will Luce recounts a roadside episode as a driver picks up a youth hitchhiker and helps a stuck truck with local workers. The tale notes recurring aid from Mexicans and a humorous misunderstanding about directions while detailing wear from constant stooping during a rainy journey to Benjamin and Draper.
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Will Luce
Fermerie Et
Stamford
Lubbock
Pel
Knox
Benjamin
Lota
Draper
Lambert
Good Advertisement For Any Town Stamford Texas 1930
Opinion piece urging Stamford to support a locally owned restaurant to boost economy and morale. Argues dining improves citizen health and productivity, encourages town pride, and suggests forming a stock company to finance such a project. Cites Club Café in Seymour as a model and requests local newspaper support.
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Euch
Les
Rise of Football Moves From Amateurs to Big Business
The article notes college football's evolution from amateur status to a multi million enterprise. It compares modern stadiums and gate receipts to major prize fights, recalls Princeton Rutgers 1869 as the first intercollegiate game with 25 men per side, and mentions Chief Justice William S. Gurney as the surviving Princeton captain. It also cites Rugby School’s 1823 tablet about William Webb Ellis initiating the run with the ball.
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Carnegie Foundation
Princeton
Rutgers
William S. Gunmere
New Jersey Supreme Court
Rugby School
England
William Webb Ellis
Hoover is My Shepherd parody vents at Republicans
A Stamford Democrat prints a playful parody of the twenty third psalm from Elk City Oklahoma Journal. It mocks Hoover’s administration with lines about poverty unemployment and high taxes. The verse envisions the speaker dwelling in a rented house amid hard times.
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Washington
Stamford
Elk City
Okla
Hoover
Stamford Considers Pre‑Holiday Christmas Spirit
The Stamford business community weighs a pre holiday effort as merchants plan decor events and a possible Christmas party following last year's Santa visit and prize giveaways. Local towns already engage in pre Christmas activities and the timing remains tight.
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Stamford
Santa Claus
Congress Convenes Amid Political Punditry and Proposals
The piece surveys Washington politics on opening day with quips about Congress and a look at potential compromises. It notes Republican leaders D House and Senate courting insurgents, Meade Shoals issues, anti injunction bills, and a Norris resolution as pressures for a possible extra session.
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House
Senate
Representative Snell
House Rules Committee
Congress
Watson
Snell
Meade Shoals
Rules Committee
Michener
Michigan
Norris
Prohibition, Farm Policy and Senate Power Shifts in 1930s Era
The piece discusses the delay of new Congress taking power, farm debenture issues dropped from a short session, and Farm Board wheat policy. It notes a two day Senate Agriculture conference with Hyde and Legge, signaling support for continued policy without new legislation. It covers Wickersham Commission forecasts on Prohibition and intra party disputes over repeal. It highlights Senator Robinson opposing rapid repeal and hints at a looming political crisis.
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Federal Farm Board
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Arthur M Hyde
Alexander Legge
Farm Board
McNary
Farm Organization
Wickersham Commission
Dity
Washington
Ine
Dr. Wilson
Anti-Saloon League
Democratic Party
Joseph T. Robinson
Senate
Samoa
Pasture Expansion Drives Texas Farm Diversification
Texas farmers increasingly develop pasture as a steady backbone for economics, with county agents reporting widespread winter pasture plantings. In Titus County 2000 acres of winter pasture emerge, Hall County farmers sow wheat or rye, and Hardin County shows oats rye vetch and Canadian peas in winter pastures. Home demonstration clubs boost garden greens and vegetables, while 4-H member Ruby Barfield earns over fifty dollars from a 1 16 acre garden.
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Texas
Titus County
Hall County
Hardin County
Joe Monk
Martin Club
Lamar County
J. A. Lewis
Heavon Club
Wise County
Ruby Barfield
District 17 Texas WOMU meeting at Simmons University Abilene
The Executive Committee of District No 17 Texas WOMU will convene in Abilene on Saturday December 6 at Simmons University. Members must be there by 9 45 p m to travel to the Simmons Science Hall for the all day session. Mrs Eugene Sallee missionary from China will speak in the afternoon. Lunch at Simmons University cafeteria. Publicity chair Mrs Oscar H Cooper urges large attendance. 34-2p
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Oscar H. Cooper
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