Farley Outlines Post Office Cut Plan
Postmaster General Farley pledged a 72 million dollar cut in the Post Office Department for the next fiscal year while preserving essential services. He cited 30 million saved from federal salary reductions and 20 million from rent and transportation reforms, with 22 million from proposals including rural route changes, work rotation, and possible carrier layoffs avoided by contracting and restructuring.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Farley
Roosevelt
Woman is injured as man is jailed after highway wreck
Miss Anna Ruth Shores 22 of Collinsville lies in critical condition at Wilson N. Jones Hospital Sherman after a two car crash on Highway 5 near Southmayor Whitesboro. Lucian Woolfolk of Collinsville is in the Grayson County jail charged with assault to murder with an automobile. Woolfolk bound over to grand jury with $1500 bond.
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Sherman
Anna Ruth Shores
Collinsville
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Lucian Woolfolk
Grayson County
Highway 5
Southmayor
Whitesboro
Grand Jury
W. S. Buster
Justice Court
Miss Shores
P. T. Shores Jr
Maggie Walker
Virgil Wilhelm
Woolfolk
P. T. Shores Sr
Humility and Childlike Trust Define True Greatness
The lesson argues greatness comes from renunciation, not power. Jesus inverts rank by embracing a child and saying, Whoever for my sake receives one such child as this, receives me. It highlights the value of humble service and tolerant, generous leadership. The concluding quip contrasts lost glasses with a search for truth.
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Jesus
Kingdom of Heaven
Havelock Ellis
Lost 40 Pounds On Doctor's Advice
Miss Berhta Waldo of Haman North Dakota reports using Kruschen Salts as a reducing remedy and claims a loss of over 40 pounds in a year. She cites daily half teaspoonful doses in hot water each morning and says the regimen improves health and vitality while promising money back if not satisfied.
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Berhta Waldo
Haman
N. Dak
Taxes and Legislators Mull Session End In Texas
Austin notes the Texas Legislature enters its fourth month with pay for members at 10 dollars daily for 120 days. Extension possible but pay would drop by half. Debate rages over taxes, with an income tax approved by the House and efforts to revive a sales tax to fund schools. Cigarette tax enforcement shifts and school funding loom. The income tax structure exempts 2500 dollars for married filers and 500 per dependent, with rates from 1 to 7 percent. Appropriation bills face cuts of 25 to 35 percent.
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Austin
House bill 243 seeks to raise scholastic age to seven
A bill pending in the House would raise the scholastic age from six to seven, reducing State school fund claimants by about 135,000 and saving schools over 2,000,000 dollars depending on apportionment. The measure is House bill No. 243 and connects to a constitutional cap of 22.50 per capita per biennium already approved by the Senate.
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Senate
Legislature proposes tax limitation amendment
The report praises a House favored measure that would cap state expenditures by an absolute spending limit. It argues current increases depend on finding new taxes, while the amendment would set a hard cap preventing unchecked appropriation growth.
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House
The Family Doctor and the Dilemma of Diagnosis
The author argues that doctors must address both what is wrong and how to treat it. A skilled physician may misdiagnose yet still apply effective remedies by understanding symptoms and the medicine's action. He favors practical knowledge of physiology over strict diagnostic labels and invites readers to laugh.
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Pig) Jones
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Purina Chicken
Vance Dairy Feed
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