Soil Conservation Program Aims To Halt Erosion In Texas
College Station reports detail the Soil Conservation Act to shift land from soil depleting crops to erosion preventing and fertility rebuilding crops. Data from nine years show cotton causes far greater soil loss and runoff than milo or buffalo grass, with regional applicability to 44 counties and 14 million acres in Texas. Farmers must plant at least one acre of soil building crops for every five acres of depleting crops to qualify for program payments.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Milo
Spur
Dickens County
Rolling Plains
Texas
Miles
Abilene
Soil Conservation Service
College Station
Shelton
Loans in Grayson County Aided by HOLC Reach $660 358
Grayson County residents received refinancing loans totaling 660 358 dollars from the Home Owners Loan Corporation as of January 2 1936 per H P Drought Texas Emergency Council director. Nationwide HOLC closes by March 26 1936 total 1 000 749 loans worth 3 031 168 924 dollars. Texas 43 741 loans totaling 101 823 418 dollars.
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San Antonio
Grayson County
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
H. P. Drought
National Emergency Council For Texas
Texas
United States
Federal seizure of counterfeit money reported last year
Counterfeit coins and notes bearing a face value of 1 342 000 were confiscated by the Federal Government last year. Weather bureau forecasters predict the years of heaviest floods well in advance. Mississippi River flood cycles run about thirteen years apart, with variation among others.
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Weather Bureau
Prophecies of Mother Shipton Told in Verse
A lengthy verse recounts Mother Shipton born in Norfolk and dying in Clifton as it outlines prophecies about disasters in London Primrose Hill a bishop, waters and air filled with wonders, England admitting a Jew, wars in France and England uniting, future fashion trends with women in trousers, and a century forecast of upheaval ending with Gabriel’s horn as old worlds perish and new are born.
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Mother Shipton
Norfolk
England
Clifton
Yorkshire
America
London
Primrose Hill
Youth's Driving License Is Suspended in Denison
A Denison youth had driving rights suspended for 60 days after speeding with fire department equipment while an alarm was answered. Police charged dangerous proximity to the engine and fined 8.45 dollars. The case marks the first suspension under the new state law ordered by Judge Alexander Gullett.
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Denison
Alexander Gullett
Howe Man Candidates for County Clerk
E A Earl Clayton announces for county clerk in Grayson County. He grew up near Howe on the Clayton farm, 34 years old, son of Alf Clayton who died when Earl was 14. He promises an intensive campaign and seeks support from friends, neighbors, and business circles. He asks for hearty cooperation as he presents his claims for the office.
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Howe
E. A
Earl) Clayton
Clayton
Grayson County
Alf Clayton
Earl
Jameson
Happiness Comes Two Ways From Franklin Quote
The excerpt presents two paths to happiness: reduce personal wants or increase means, with the suggestion that wise people pursue both. It notes that those with illness poverty or limited health face greater difficulty in increasing means, whileActive individuals or the healthy may find augmenting easier. The quote urges simultaneous actions to raise personal and societal happiness.
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Franklin
Citation in Grayson County Texas Court Action 1936
Court issues a citation in Grayson County Texas to Coy Patterson and wife Laura Patterson for a civil suit filed February 26 1936 by L LaRoe Company seeking 298 dollars plus 10 percent interest and 10 percent attorney fees and foreclosure of a mechanic s lien on 12 1 2 acre tract described from an 1858 land grant in Grayson County with publication required for four weeks before May 3 1936 in a Sherman newspaper. The defendants residence is unknown and they must appear at the District Court 15th Judicial District in Sherman on that date.
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State OF
Texas
District Court
Grayson
Coy Patterson
Laura Patterson
15Th Judicial District
Grayson County
Sherman
L. LaRoe &Company
Alexander Horton
Kyle Freeman
L. P. Sears
George T. Simpson
A. M. Bryant
James Gowdy
Craig Creek
Mill Creek
S. V. Earnest
District Court of
Grayson Co
County
Frankie Slaughter
Deport All Undesirable Aliens Bill Promoted by Reynolds
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina proposes a registration and fingerprinting regime for all aliens plus deportation of undesirables. The bill aims to curb criminal aliens and those supporting anti-government groups, reduce relief burdens, and free jobs for Americans citing 1933 1934 and 1935 admission figures.
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Reynolds
North Carolina
Senate
Los Angeles Herald-Express
Heat Light Bill Set Six Eggs For Breakfast
A humorous exchange centers on an overheard breakfast mishap. Jerry corrects Bill asking if he meant ate. Bill admits perhaps eight eggs were eaten, revealing a light hearted miscount over breakfast.
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Bill
Jerry
Seals and Whales Share Air Bursting Need
Seals and whales both surface to breathe air, revealing similar respiratory behavior in marine mammals. Researchers note seals frequently rise briefly for oxygen, while whales commonly take longer breaths at the surface.
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Holc
Gordon’s
Luther Gordon
Stafford
Whitewright
Sunny
France
Gabriel
Howe Man
Kelvinator
Amul, Public Service Company
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