Government Orders New Rental Housing and Price Ceilings
The National Housing Administration announces a sweeping plan requiring one quarter of new dwellings in cities to be built for rental and setting rent ceilings from 40 to 65 dollars a month. Sales prices must stay below city-specific caps, with priorities given to veteran builders and those selling or renting under the new limits. The policy uses lumber and materials priorities to push low cost housing into construction.
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Washington
National Housing Administration
W. Wyatt
New Orleans
New York
Wyatt
Beavers Build Dam on Big Mineral Bay at Texoma
Beavers, the only ones within 800 miles, have constructed a dam on Big Mineral Bay in Lake Texoma, indicating notable local wildlife activity in the area.
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Big Mineral Bay
Texoma
Half-Dozen Economy Cars Expected Next Year
Detroit reports that Chevrolet and Ford plan low-price, full-sized economy models in 1947. Industry insiders foresee multiple rivals launching similar frugal cars as Chrysler, Nash, Hudson, Willys, Studebaker, and Packard may follow with competitive offerings. Henry Ford II previously aimed for about a 25 percent reduction.
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Detroit
Mich
Chevrolet
Ford
Chrysler
Studebaker
Nash
Hudson
Willys
Packard
Henry Ford II
Ways and Means: Tales of Marriage and Mock Mobster Mischief
Gladys laments her friend's marriage saying she disliked the man but adored his means. A rookie cop quips that dispersing a mob could be done by passing a hat, blending wry humor with social satire.
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Gladys
Jokes From A Punchy Ledger In Odd Times
Wry humor threads through a clipped recital of gaffes and legal jests. A sailor jokes about family insanity as he reports money demands, a magistrate quips about eight-time voting charges, and a jailer mutters about payment in a sequence of brief, comic exchanges.
Fidelity Insurance Offered After Bus Stop Gossip
A terse dialogue turns on suspicion about a husband speaking with a red haired woman at a bus stop. The caller asks about insuring fidelity, prompting a terse reply from the Fidelity Insurance Company representative. The item reads like a humorous or sensational exchange reflecting social anxieties about trust and loyalty.
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Fidelity Insurance Company
Photographer Oz Offers Child Portraits for Three Dollars a Dozen
A street exchange reveals photographer Oz agrees to take children's photos for three dollars per dozen. The client replies that only eleven are ready, prompting a promise to return. The brief vignette captures a casual business moment about pricing and unfinished work.
Car Dreams Amidst a Country Life
A dialogue fragment shows a speaker rebuking a woman for a life of wandering and begging. The other responds that he would welcome a car to change his fate, expressing a longing for mobility and independence beyond constant travel.
Tex’s homeward reckoning near the Golden Gate
After 16 days at sea the troopship nears California and San Francisco. Tex, measuring distance to the U S with a pencil stub, forecasts returning home “another few hundred miles” as rejoicing crowds greet the sight of the Golden Gate and white city buildings.
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Tex
U. S
San Antono
Golden Gate
California
San Francisco
Divorce Award Sparks Humorous Exchange At Court
A judge grants a wife divorce for non-support and orders $50 monthly. The husband jokes he will sometimes slip her extra money. A college friend, the doctor, is thanked in a will, prompting the doctor to request a prescription correction in light of the exchange.
Court reminds man to trust reason over signs
A judge cautions a man who believes in signs that superstition should not drive him from his home. The defendant admits fearing a woman's humming of his razor at night, insisting signs influence his life.
Quick Shift What is heredity
A concise quote on heredity contrasts belief with evidence as children begin to prove expectations. The remark highlights how inherited ideas shape views until observable proof from offspring challenges or confirms them. No specific people or places are named in the fragment.
House to house salesman and boy scout quips
A humor sketch shows a salesman offering terms like a small deposit and six months without payments. Two Boy Scouts exchange joking lines about cod liver oil. Maddening Mail reports wounded GIs in a Guadalcanal hospital receiving letters. one man learns his girlfriend wed another, the other learns he was rejected by the draft board.
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Guadalcanal
Citation for Maude E. Johnson estate final report
The State of Texas commands Grayson County officers to publish notice for ten days and summon all interested in Maude E. Johnson deceased estate. C. J. Corcoran filed the final report in Grayson County Court. Hearing set for the first Monday after ten days service, May 2, 1946, at Sherman Court House.
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State of
Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
Maude FE. Johnson
C. J. Corcoran
Maude E. Johnson
Court House
City of
Sherman
A. D
J. C. Buchanan
Iva Medlin
Arthur Bartlett
Henry Etter
Marguerite Berry
Administrators filed final report on G. W. Davis estate
C E Davis and Willie Davis as administrators of G W Davis deceased present final report in Grayson County Probate Court. Hearing set for the first Monday after ten days service, at the Sherman courthouse on the second Monday in May 1946. Interested parties may appear and contest the report.
Whisky vow leads to shared sickness
Epidemic MacGregor and MacPherson swore off whisky but kept one bottle for illness. After three days MacPherson confessed illness, and MacGregor revealed he had been sick all day yesterday.
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MacGregor
MacPherson
A True Texan During long months in New Guinea and Philippines
A brief portrait recalls a true Texan who endured extended service in New Guinea and later in the Philippines. The narrative highlights endurance, duty, and the experiences shaping his wartime record.
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New Guinea
Philippines
Court citation in Sherman seals title dispute 1946
The State of Texas issues Citation No. 54512 to A Forrest and unknown heirs et al for title and possession of Lots 6 and 7 in Block 5 of Chaffin's Addition Sherman Texas. Defendants must answer by 10 a m on Monday June 3 1946 in Grayson County District Court.
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State of
Texas
A. Forrest
T. F. Johnson
John McGrew
Mamie Mitchell
Charlie Mitchell
Dunk Inman
Rosie White
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Sherman
J. A. Ladd
Chaffin
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
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Central Hide & Rendering CO
Whitewright Lumber Co
New England
L. LaRoe & Co
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