Denison Called Black Spot of State by Draper Visit
Capt John Draper of the North Texas division of the Department of Public Safety calls Denison a black spot in the state after spending Monday in the city. He outlines a plan for concentrated enforcement, urges jurors to convict drunken drivers, and notes traffic fatalities in Grayson County and the Denison area.
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Denison
John Draper
North
Draper
Captain Draper
John
Monkey Lookalike Sparks Family Laughs at Zoo
A humorous exchange at the zoo features Willie noting a monkey resembles his father, his mother chiding him for remarking, and Willie laughing at the creature's supposed lack of understanding of his words.
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Willie
Kentuckytown tops Orangeville in Sunday baseball game
Orangeville News reports Kentuckytown defeated Orangeville 18 to 9 at the schoolhouse Sunday evening. Social notes list visitors Mrs Lawrence Burden from Whitewright, Mrs Norwood and Mrs Walter Holcomb visiting. Evelyn Bowen and Nancy Cooper hosting. Hershell Wilder visiting. Lucian Jones family moving to Whitewright, and a junior Sunday school party with pie. Everyone urged to attend next Sunday.
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Kentuckytown
Orangeville
Lawrence Burden
Whitewright
Norwood
Valley Creek
Walter Holcomb
Nobility
Haywood
Evelyn Bowen
Nancy Cooper
Hershell Wilder
Shady Grove
John
Billy Reneau
Clint Jones
John Savage
Lucian Jones
High Speed Fuel For Motor Cars and Planes Developed
Baltimore reports a new gasoline streamlining process to produce 90 to 100 octane aviation fuel from natural gas and refinery gases. Each worm-shaped hydrocarbon is reshaped into a fish form to burn slower and with greater power. The plan allocates 100 million dollars this year for streamlining apparatus to supply world demand and improve motor fuel.
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Baltimore
American Chemical Society
Gustav Egloff
Universal Oil Products Company of
Chicago
Egloff
Taylor
Editor Faces Gap in Weekly Concrete Herald
Charles Dwelley editor of the Weekly Concrete Herald told readers there may be no issue next week due to his planned appendix removal. He urged subscribers to pay bills as his first vacation in nine years would cost money.
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Concrete, Wash
Charles Dwelley
Concrete Herald
Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Filmland
Larry
Bing
Bing Crosby, Inc
Phonograph
Sorghum Breadstuffs Debut Pleases Local Visitors
In Sherman 20 visitors tried sorghum flour breads and hot mush during a rainstorm relief lunch hosted by Miss Felda Mae Leewright and Mrs. Kate Hammerle of the Farm Security Administration. The meal featured muffins, salad, coffee, and dairy fats, highlighting sorghum as a tasty, iron rich alternative to corn or wheat bread. Local households already trial sorghum flour, though not stocked by area grocers, and mills sell grain sorghum flours. Prospective uses include whole grain cereals with varying bitterness among grain types like milo maize and kafir with yellow maize favored for color.
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Sherman
Felda Mae Leewright
Kate Hammerle
Farm Security Administration
Grayson County
Vaccine Shows Promise Against Texas Encephalomyelitis
Encephalomyelitis threatens Texas horses and mules but a chick embryo serum vaccine from Texas A M College Extension Service shows strong protection. Disease spread across the state, transmitted by insects. many animals and birds are susceptible including man. Vaccination in May or June covers the peak mosquito activity with about three quarters of animals immune or unaffected.
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College Station
Texas
Roy W. Snyder
Texas A. and M. College Extension Service
H. W. Schoening
Usda Bureau of Animal Industry
Horse and Mule Association of America
Chicago
Schoening
Synder
Bing Crosby’s finances reveal big earnings and big taxes
Hollywood raises the profile of Bing Crosby as a top earner yet reveals heavy tax payments and living costs. Larry Crosby details cash from films, broadcasts, and records, while noting vast payrolls, investments for others, and a Del Mar track loan. A bank fraud episode closes the report.
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Bing
del Mar
Larry
Oklahoma
Everett
How the Other Lives Told by Butlers
Town & Country magazine and the Butler's Club of New York report a survey of 100 wealthy American families. It details beverage consumption, entertaining guests, staff size, travel, housing, and leisure patterns, with Rolls Royce ownership and prominent vacation spots.
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America
Town & Country Magazine
Butler's Club of
New York
United States
Manhattan
Rolls Royce
Florida
Bermuda
Europe
White Sulphur Springs
West Va
Maine
California
Butler’s Club of
May Chicks Booking Orders Announced by Mrs James
May chicks booking orders are open with custom trays priced at 1.25 dollars each set from April 15 or later. May chicks ordered now cost 4.50 dollars per hundred, as stated by Mrs. H. A. James.
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H. A. James
Whitewright Hatchery
G. W. Ford
Hogs and Ball Season Charm Uncle Si Quip
An informal city page notes a local tradition with its own publication staff hosting an annual ball. A lively exchange features Uncle Si joking how to keep thin hogs from crowding through pen knotholes by tying knots in their tails.
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City
Interviewee Blown Away by Electric Salary Shock
A job applicant is interviewed as the employer notes the business runs on electricity. The applicant replies with disbelief and a joke about the offered salary, saying it already gave him a shock.
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Bonham
R. W. Busby
F. M. Jackson
Orangeville News
Bemberg
MEN
S & Boys
T. W. Ayres & Son
Gossard
Carter
H. L. Crosby Sr
Morris Fogle Gillett
H H. Spencer
Johnson
Call Haile
Tom Barbee
Stephens & Bryant
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Hedge Shears
Manning & Meador
Rexall
Good Housekeeping
Madden
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