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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1935
Page
7
Austin December 19 State Health Officer Dr John W Brown urges drivers and pedestrians to join in safe habits to reduce holiday traffic hazards. He says reckless driving and disregard for others cause many deaths and stresses partnership in traffic safety during the Christmas season.
Two Boise men received letters containing 105 dollars from a San Francisco sender who did not sign the name on the envelope or letter.
The Rural Electrification Administration will finance wiring of houses and farm buildings as rural line construction makes electricity available. REA funds cover line construction and wiring, while the Electric Home and Farm Authority finances major appliances. Ohio Farm Bureau Federation starts using the new wiring facilities with contracts in Shelby and Miami counties.
The village of Cuddington in Surrey traces history to 675 with monarchs Athelstan and Edward the Confessor. It rose as a royal festival hub from Henry VIII to Charles II, with Nonsuch Palace built on 1600 acres, later sold with changes in possession and the fall of Essex.
The secretary of the British Forestry Commission says Britain has no national tree. Yet Royal English and Royal Scottish forestry crests favor the oak for Britain and the pine for Scotland. Canada also has no official national tree though the maple leaf appears in arms and ensigns granted in 1921, with Acer saccharinum or silver maple as the depicted variety.
Applicants need not be high school graduates but must pass an entrance exam that requires first class schooling or its equivalent. The four year course enforces strict military discipline with summers in camp. Graduates are commissioned as second lieutenants and assigned as needed, with an eight year government service commitment.
The listing notes wall paper and canvas products at C. D. Shamburger Lumber Co with a 26-tfe designation.
New York eight point program by the American Bankers Association outlines public education, customer relations, publicity and advertising, policy reform talks, farm lending support, banking ethics, and the publication Banking to improve public welfare and restore prosperity.
College Station December 9 The AAA moves toward decentralization to audit and pay Texas contracts in state offices at College Station. An auditing office a branch of the disbursing office will be established to accelerate handling and correct suspended contracts more easily. A four year cotton adjustment contract will provide a single payment to cooperating producers in 1936. The payment will be not less than five cents per pound, based on lint yield on land withheld from production, similar to 1935.
The idea dates to 1521 under Spanish rule with early surveys, but major effort began in 1876 when a Paris company formed to conduct surveys. After a 1879 scientific congress, a French firm built large scale operations until bankruptcy in 1889 amid fraud charges. A liquidator ran the assets until 1904 when the United States took over and construction resumed, mostly in the Culebra Cut.
Oakland December 18 L A Warren president of Safeway Stores Inc emphasized news advertising and its increasing value to business and industrial development of the nation in a public statement. He cited his own company in support of the assertion.
W I Myers governor of the Farm Credit Administration spoke at the Rutgers graduate banking school saying agriculture shows marked improvement and a greatly expanded volume of farm credit will be needed especially short term credit. He noted farmers relying on charge agents have a basis for cash loans from banks, production credit associations or other business lenders.
The Piggly Wiggly Store in Stamford part of the Safeway system remains a consistent advertiser in the Stamford American.
William Currie of Shallow Canada dies after illness. His estate deposits $2 to be held for future use in renting a building for dancing and merrymaking.
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