Mrs Miriam Ferguson enters third term bid for Texas governor
Miriam A Ferguson announces her third term candidacy for Texas governor, backing Roosevelt for a third term and proposing a half percent gross receipts tax to fund social security obligations. She outlines seven platform planks including tax cuts, education funding, and cooperation with federal aid.
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Austin
Ferguson
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fergusons
Lee O'Daniel
Ma Ferguson
Roosevelt
Texans Face Poor Diets Among Farm Families
College Station report cites 1938 pellagra deaths and Farm Bureau data. Jennie Camp of the A and M Extension Service says 450000 Texas farm people have poor diets, 1000000 have fair diets, nearly a million have good or excellent diets. Emphasizes lack of milk cows poultry gardens and orchards, and promotes home gardens under the 1940 AAA program to improve diet and soil.
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Texas
Miss Camp
AAA
Ferguson Tax Plans Clash With Legislature Proposals
Texas political figures debate tax plans as Ferguson promotes a half percent gross receipts levy aiming for 50 million annually while peers back 60 million from an oil and gas levy and 23 million from an omnibus tax. Analysts warn legislative action will shape social security funding and state finances amid constitutional limits.
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Austin
James E. Ferguson
House
Representative Hardin
Senate
Ferguson
Texas
Jerry Sadler
O'Daniel
Albert Derden
Harry Hines
Sadler
Land Travel Preferred A Negro Mammy Speaks On Flight
A quoted enslaved woman asserts she will take her first airplane ride when offered and insists she can manage without others to fetch it, expressing resolve to seize opportunity as soon as it arises. Her remark reflects candid assertion of agency in a period of limited mobility for Black workers.
Poison Mash Best Cut Worm Remedy
College Station reports an arsenic based poison mash to control cut worms. Entomologist Cameron Siddall of Texas A and M Extension advises mixing 3 ounces white arsenic or Paris Green with 5 pounds bran ½ pint molasses and water to a sticky mash, applied along tomato rows late at night to poison the worms.
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College Station
Cameron Siddall
Texas A. and M. Extension Service
Arthritis Tied to Gum Disease and Tooth Decay
The eighteenth general session of the International Association of Dental Research heard a theory that arthritis and other ailments including chronic dyspepsia and neuritis contribute to gum disease and tooth decay. The claim was presented by Dr. Herbert T. Kelly and dentists Drs. John H. Gunter and Herman R. Churchill of the University of Pennsylvania and the dental school.
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Philadelphia
International Association of Dental Research
Herbert T. Kelly
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
John H. Gunter
Herman R. Churchill
Dental School
Black-Draught Vegetable Laxative Featured
Punctual gentle relief from constipation using a combination of vegetable ingredients. The chief component is an intestinal tonic laxative to tone lazy bowel muscles. Next time remember spicy aromatic time tested Black-Draught. It is economical too with 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents.
Calamitations of Gum Disease Linked to Nutrition
Dr. Kelly states professional men attributed the ailments to gum disease and notes the best results in treating periodontal disease come when the patient’s nutritional status is corrected.
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Kelly
Punctuation Changes Meanings In Comedic Exchange
A humor piece recalls how two commas flip meaning in quotes from Margaret Angelin and Mrs. Fisk at a theatre, plus a Twain style quip about punctuation. It ends with a joke about a woman's indecisiveness and a punch line on change.
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Margaret Angelin
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