Dirt Farmer Letter Questions Tax Burden on Officers
Homer M. Price shares a letter from a writer signing as Dirt Farmer critiquing officer salaries in East Texas. He argues high pay requires vast crop yields and livestock sales, calculating absurd quantities of cotton watermelons eggs and butter to cover one officer’s salary. Price concludes many farmers may lose land to taxes and asks what should be done.
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Homer M. Price
Marshall News
Figgerin
Ownership and management statement for The Whitewright Sun
J H Waggoner declares he is editor and owner of The Whitewright Sun with address Whitewright Texas. No bonds or securities over one percent. Notary H G Webster notes sworn on April 9 1932. Sun and Semi-Weekly Farm News offered at $1 85 for one year to same address.
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Congress
Whitewright Sun
Whitewright
Grayson County
Texas
J. H. Waggoner
H. G. Webster
Sun
Ambitious List Grows for Congress-at-Large Seats
Aspirants for three congressman-at-large posts have increased to 36 per latest reports. The roster includes E. G. Brown Corpus Christi Joe Burkett San Antonio Ida M. Darden Fort Worth Ernest Cox Austin Otro Cox Legion D B Chaplin Gladewater F O Fuller Houston Oscar F Holcomb Houston R B Hood Weatherford T J Holbrook Galveston W E Lea Orange Pink L Parrish Lubbock Mrs Fred Real Kerrville Geo C Purl Dallas J P Patterson San Antonio Sterling P Strong Dallas Chas P Smith Henderson Geo B Terrell Alto Ernest O Thompson Amarillo W E Williams Fort Worth Mrs Phoebe K Warner Claude J H Davis Texarkana Charles Baughman Austin W E Myers Fort Worth Lamar Gill Raymondville E G Senter Arlington Cyclone Davis Sulphur Springs Don H Biggers Lampasas Ben F Harigel La Grange L J Sulak La Grange V I Cargil Houston Douglas McGregor Houston E H Hood Cleburne CG A Mitcher Sherwood R D Sartin Wichita Falls Chesley W Jurney Waco.
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E. G. Brown
Corpus Christi
Joe Burkett
San Antonio
Ida M. Darden
Fort Worth
Ernest Cox
Austin
Otro Cox
Legion
D. B. Chaplin
Gladewater
F. O. Fuller
Houston
Oscar F. Holcomb
R. B. Hood
Weatherford
T. J. Holbrook
Galveston
W. E. Lea
Orange
Pink L. Parrish
Lubbock
Fred Real
Kerrville
Geo. C. Purl
Dallas
J. P. Patterson
Sterling P. Strong
Chas. P. Smith
Henderson
Geo
Cleburne
CG. A. Mitcher
Sherwood
R. D. Sartin
Wichita Falls
Chesley W. Jurney
Waco
Woman and Dub Clash Over Ideal Man Traits
A woman states her ideal partner should be calm stoical precise and action oriented. Dub counters that she wants a robot rather than a man.
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Dub
Sparrows Replaced Native Birds To Fight Caterpillars
Settlers in New Zealand faced swarms of large brown caterpillars that ruined crops and blocked railways. Ditches failed until sparrows from England were introduced, multiplying to clear the pests and aiding recovery.
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New Zealand
England
Notice of Foreclosure and Debt Action in Grayson County
The Central State Bank of Sherman sues Annie Dagnan, Edd Schmitz, and T. C. Kennedy for $523.75 plus interest and attorney’s fees, seeking foreclosure on a deed of trust and chattel mortgage on property in Grayson County. The district court in Sherman is set to convene on the third Monday in May 1932, with service by publication required for four weeks.
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Texas
District Court
Grayson County
Grayson
Annie Dagnan
15Th Judicial District
Sherman
Central State Bank of
Edd Schmitz
T. C. Kennedy
Central State Bank
Ed Halliday
Barlow Roberts
W. B. Munson
W. A. Palmer
F. W. Johnson
D. S. Southmayd
E. Glasscock
G. P. Gafford
District Court of
Grayson Co
R. B. Aston
Hog feeding costs cut by Texas college study
Texas farmers and 2 885 youths cut hog feeding costs in 1931 to 8 24 per hog from 17 25 in 1930 through demonstration methods guided by county agents at Texas A M College. Self feeders, protein supplements, pastures, hog houses, and sanitary troughs boosted profits and efficiency.
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College Station
Texas Farmers and Club Boys
E. M. Regenbrecht
Texas A. & M. College
Cothar
Regenbrecht
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Rupture Shield Expert Demonstrates at Sherman Hotel
H. M. Shevnan, Chicago rupture shield expert, to appear at the Grayson Hotel Sherman on April 19 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. He promotes the Zootic Shield as a noninvasive method that allegedly stabilizes circulation, closes ruptures in ten days, requires no medicine, straps, or medical care, and offers free demonstrations.
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H. M. Shevnan
Chicago
Grayson Hotel
Sherman
Shevnan
Halman Ave
F. H. Seeley
Pot likker praised as nutritious dish in Auburn
Helen Kennedy a nutritionist at Alabama Polytechnic Institute calls pot likker highly valuable for minerals including calcium phosphorus iron and vitamins. The item is tied to Huey Long, who favored the dish, in Auburn.
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Auburn
Ala
Huey Long
Helen Kennedy
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
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Bateman
First National Bank
Jack
Juanita
General Electric
Louisiana
Ful
R. B. Nall
Sherman, Texas
Superior Service
Mangram Bros
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