AAA to pay 21 cents a bushel on wheat crop relief
The AAA announced a 21 percent per bushel benefit for wheat farmers who signed 1936 crop control contracts and kept planting levels before January 6 1936. Total payments estimated at 40.5 million dollars, pending field measurements and local admin costs.
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Washington
AAA
Supreme Court
Congress
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Oregon
Idaho
Effects of Extreme Cold Across Regions and Dimekon Tale
A Pathfinder piece explains how extreme cold affects light sources and fuels at temperatures well below freezing. It notes that in Siberia, batteries freeze, candles fail to melt wax, and kerosene thickens, making lanterns unreliable. Dimekon on the Indigirka River is cited as the coldest spot on earth with a mean January temp around 68.3 below zero for four years.
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Siberia
Dimekon
Indigrka River
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Oimekon
A Dallas plan to cure depression by shrinking foot rules
A Dallas News correspondent mocks government inflation and proposes a bold plan to cut two inches from every foot rule, making a foot ten inches. He argues this would boost farm land, clothing production, rail revenue, car mileage, and overall prosperity, urging Congress to act and urging the public to write to their representatives.
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Dallas News
AAA
Townsend
Bank
Congress
Kansas City
New York
Podunk
Washington
Fellows
Barter Tuition at Old Harvard in Seventeenth Century
Harvard in 1655 accepted payment in kind for tuition. Students offered roses, eggs, firewood, honey, wax, ribbon, canvas, wheat, corn, calves, sheep, butter, eggs, beans, apples, shoes, books, salt, spice, and pewter. They were also warned to avoid new fashions and to dress modestly.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Samuel Eliot Morrison
Harvard College
Pioneer Ranger Recalls Capture of Cook Train Robbers
R L Bob McClure recalls joining Bill McDonald unique ranger company in 1892 and chasing Bill Cook gang across Texas. They captured the Cook gang four miles from Bellview near Wichita Falls after 17 days in the Palo Pinto Mountains, then handed them to federal authorities. He also recalls Langtry and Roy Bean near the Pecos, and a dramatic swift justice incident in Wichita Falls.
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McClure
Brady
San Saba
Georgia
Ranger Company
Wichita Falls
West
Ranger
Bill Cook
Old
Indian Territory
Texas
Texas and Pacific
Gordon
Palo Pinto County
Palo Pinto Mountains
McDonald
Cook
Bellview
Langtry
Mayer- Fitzsimmons
Rio Grande
Old Mexico
Rangers
Mr. McClure
Roy Bean
Pecos
Bean
Bar of Justice
Justice
Doctor to graft artificial arms to boy muscles
In Nutley New Jersey, 16-year-old John Seeley awaits a pioneering procedure based on Vanghetti’s 1870 muscle graft method. A New Jersey orthopedic surgeon plans to attach artificial limbs to muscle flaps, letting actions reflect muscle movement. A second note mentions a cicada brood expected this spring across several states.
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Nutley
N. J
John Seeley
Vanghetti
New York State
Missouri
Michigan
Alabama
Georgia
Agriculture Department
Louisana
Mississippi
Citation for divorce action in Grayson County Texas
The state directs the sheriff or constable to publish this citation for four weeks in a Grayson County newspaper and summon Lindsay Smith to appear before the District Court on the third Monday in May 1936 in Sherman. Plaintiff Pearl B. Smith seeks divorce on cruel treatment and custody of Evelyn Ruth Smith, with other relief requested. Return of service required.
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State OF
Texas
District Court
Grayson County
Grayson
Lindsay Smith
15Th Judicial District
Sherman
Pearl B. Smith
Evelyn Ruth Smith
S. V. Earnest
Grayson Co
Eon
Frankie Slaughter
Denison Slaying Trial Set For April 23
Eugene Moore will stand trial April 23 in Fifteenth District Court charged by indictment with the pistol slaying of Dale Ford, 34, of Denison. Judge R. M. Carter appointed Nat B. Birge to defend Moore after Moore said he cannot hire counsel. Birge previously saved Harold Locke from the electric chair by securing a 99 year sentence for the man charged with killing Whitesboro city marshal Ches Estes in 1935. Ford died from a March 1 bullet wound during a san affray related to Vesta Lyons, who was wounded. A special venire of 125 has been summoned.
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Ford
San
Vesta Lyons
Denison
Lyons
Bill proposes $100 million annual education fund for states
A House bill would appropriate one hundred million dollars each year to the states to support more equitable educational opportunities. The measure empowers the United States Commission of Education to distribute the fund based on each state’s ability to support education.
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House
United States Commission of Education
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Stephens & Bryant
First National Bank
Rama
R. L
Bob) McClure
Diriner
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Bell Laboratories
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Luther Gordon
Earth
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Lem Tittsworth
Bonham P. S
S. S. Smith
Honey Grove
Houston
San Antonio
Kilgore
Taft-Linton
Victoria
Chamber of Commerce
Houston—San Jacinto Association
Main Street
Old Capitol of Texas
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Temple
Bell County
Georgetown
Fort Worth
San Felipe DE Austin
Bowie
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Palestine
Big Spring
Crosby County
Snyder
Dallas
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