Secretary Wallace Eyes Wider Cotton Acreage Cuts
The Dallas News argues that Secretary Wallace’s push for drastic 1938 cotton acreage reductions ignores world supply trends. It says American output has surged while foreign production hits record highs, depressing prices despite restrictive policy. It advocates abandoning acreage limits and using parity pricing plus subsidies to restore domestic and world balance.
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Wallace
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Mr. Wallace
Secretary Wallace
Dallas News
Buffalo Surplus Prompts Government Sale of 800 Animals
Government offers nearly 800 buffaloes from Western preserves. Live buffalo price is 60 dollars delivered at rail. or 50 dollars with hide included if butchered at the preserve. Fifty years ago fears rose of extinction after Sheridan's estimate of eleven million.
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Sheridan
Western Plains
Actor Franchot Tone’s father Dr Frank Tone of Niagara Falls
Dr Frank Jerome Tone a leader in electrochemistry earns the Perkin medal for applied chemistry. He originated the first silicon metal process and chairs Carborundum and Republic Carbon, with Cornell and a notable business footprint.
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Franchot Tone
Frank Jerome Tone
Niagara Falls
Tone
Perkin
Schoelkopf
American Chemical Society
American Electrochemical Society
Society of Chemical Industry
Carborundum Company
Republic Carbon Company
Cornell University
Farm bill debate shapes 1938 politics and costs
Washington notes predict a new streamlined farm program costing 600 million to a billion dollars annually. The plan replays soil conservation payments, crop transfer incentives, production quotas, parity concepts, and possible processing taxes amid sharp committee opposition and court scrutiny. Southern Democrats aim to leverage the fight to challenge Roosevelt's leadership.
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Washington
7Th Congress
AAA
Wallace
Congo
Marvin Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Sioux Falls man guilty of intoxication sentenced to month in jail
Al Hagberg of Sioux Falls South Dakota has been found guilty of intoxication and sentenced to spend a month of Sundays in jail. The ruling follows his arrest in a case heard by local authorities.
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al Hagberg
Sioux Falls
Rest for the Heavy Laden in a World of Restlessness
A sermon on Matthew 11 28 30 and Hebrews 4 1 11 argues Jesus offers true rest not as ease but through bearing burdens and disciplined life. It cites Sylvester Morse in London and Paul’s command to bear one another's burdens amid modern unrest and temptations.
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Jesus
Min
Sylvester Morne
London
Paul
Brief Items From The Nation And Around
Snippets note objections to war songs schoolboys shift to WPA lists and a phone bell quirk. Paris passengers block a train, Irvine Adams seeks divorce after one day of marriage, a rattlesnake eats three canaries, a husband gets 30 years for a minor robbery. A crow wakes a Bucyrus clock, a pancake worker reports 500000 cooked, an elderly couple applies for a license.
Thanksgiving chatter fills Wellington streets with small town gossip
The Wellington area buzzes with Thanksgiving anecdotes and daily shtick as residents joke about wrapping leftovers, feeding animals, and shopping. Names like Guy Clay, Louise Stall, Artemus McPherson, and others appear amid cheerful, brisk vignettes of local life and weekend errands.
Odd Bits From The Newsroom And The Roadside
A Johnson City editor houses over 4,000 phonograph records dating from 1896 to modern discs. California sculptor Harry Gregg chisels a 12 by 7 foot likeness of Kay Francis from rock. Franklin Grove farmer E R Buck attaches a grasshopper catcher to his car to grind catches into feed. A burglar stopped WPA workers in Pelham as they toiled on a 10 ton steamroller. Shelby officials Mayor D B Young and Police Chief Leroy Coffey are noted as active ministers.
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Ulysses Walsh
Johnson City
Tenn
Harry Gregg
Clover Meadows
Calif
Kay Francis
E.R. Buck
Franklin Grove
D. B. Young
Police
Leroy Coffey
Shelby, Q
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New York City
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Bucyrus, C
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Akron, O
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Muskogee
Okla
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Dempsey Harrell
Wellington
F. L. Rulington
Louise Stall
J. Blanford
Dozier
Leader
W. QO. Richards
Ray Wall
Artemus McPherson
Ditte Dx
Charley Jones
Rev. W. Bo Hicks
June Ann Nix
L. C. Jones
Gibbs Glenn
D.C. Lary
Frances Smith
Brown
Jeffers
Bertha Brown
Quail
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W. &. Cummings
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Bernice Driscoll
WPA
Pelham, N. Y
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