Local Radio Cafe Sparks Curio of Quiet Week
Box Holle debuts a new radio at the cafe and hints at easy listening with a brief weekly segment. Bread prices drop to a penny loaf while bakers clash, and Roosevelt's primaries support appears tepid as Maverick wins in Texas. The Record features political ads amid wheat woes locally.
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Reynolds Plots Tomato Counting Challenge Showdown
Fairbury News notes Reynolds entered the tomato counting contest. Wm. Williams grows 26 tomatoes in his garden. Reynolds must beat 19 as the first entry to rival Mrs. Seaman with 35 and Mrs. Roeilf with 47 on a single vine.
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Why the low price for wheat this season
Agricultural reporters note farmers planted about 80 million acres of wheat and expect a bumper harvest near a billion bushels this July. About 200 million bushels are carried over, leaving roughly three fourths of a billion to sell. Demand abroad, especially Japan, is weak.
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Unusual Harvest Methods Stir Rhetoric in 2 States
A Nebraska political flare appears as Sam Freeman attacks the Lincoln corridor racketeers with a blistering open letter in the Sun. Warnings of corruption and “racketeers” fuel calls for voters to strike at the polls with “bludgeons,” while Texas governor candidate Wm Lee O Daniel uses Hill Billy Band tactics to drum up support.
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