Whitewright Sun announces price and policy changes
The Whitewright Sun notes subscription at $1.50 yearly payable in advance and announces publication every Thursday. It warns notices of entertainments with fees will be charged at advertising rates, mentions corrections policy, and urges planning for full business. Governor Allred contributes a column on Mexico and school tax cuts. It cites drivers fined for no tail lights and criticizes highway safety practices in Whitewright and Grayson County.
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the Sun
James V. Allred
Allred
Mexico
Texas
State Department of Public Safety
Virgin Fields
Whitewright
Grayson County
Beware of solicitors and swindlers in Mount Vernon
An editorial in the Mount Vernon Optic Herald warns business men about cons and beggars preying on towns. The Sun notes Mount Vernon has adopted a plan aimed at shielding the town’s business community from such schemes and protecting local commerce.
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Mount Vernon
Local Chamber of Commerce warns against bogus solicitors
The Optic Herald cites a Chamber of Commerce warning about transient advertising schemers who drain merchants’ money. A publicity committee of J A Banister, Lester Smith, and Bertram Hester will approve solicitations and issue letters to trusted solicitors to prevent waste. The piece also notes plentiful, nonvisible support workers and a cotton picking season with pickers paid eight per hundred, while WPA beneficiaries and relief rolls shift hours.
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Chamber of Commerce
J. A. Banister
Lester Smith
Bertram Hester
WPA
Fort Worth
The Cotton-Picking Problem
The article notes that cotton picking is a necessary labor soon to be invaded by machinery. It compares pickers to passenger pigeons and prairie chickens as the seasonal harvest approaches. Farmers face ongoing challenges moving cotton from fields to gins as time advances.
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Whitewright
Chicago Seeks Public Input On Free Syphilis Blood Tests
In Chicago last week the local board of health mailed a poll to 1,000,000 residents asking if they would submit to a free blood test for syphilis. The campaign involved confidential replies, no signatures, and a drive to gather family data. Surgeon General led the push behind the bold public health effort.
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Chicago
Ill
Board of Health
United States
Federal
Illinois
Herman N. Bundesen
Chicago Board of Health
Shadow on the Land Syphilis Named in Book by Parran
Thomas Parran Jr of the U S Public Health Service who headed the Chicago plan last week published a new book with a graphic title Shadow on the Land Syphilis Pathfinder continuing a drumbeat to wake the public to the disease.
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Thomas Parran Jr
U. S. Public Health Service
Parran
Dallas Journal questions 8323 per home in federal housing
The Dallas Journal argues federal low cost housing in Dallas and Brooklyn projects costs about 8323 per unit and warns that high rents and upkeep claims lead to taxpayer burden. It contends future maintenance and local services suffer while units rot unused.
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Dallas
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
PWA
Sam
North America
Washington
Dallas Journal
Bible to Be Textbook In Schools of Georgia
Georgia’s State Board of Education approved buying one million copies of the King James Bible for all students. Gov. Rivers proposed the plan, saying the Bibles would not teach sectarian doctrine but be available for students to use as they wish. Georgia would be the only state to place the Bible as a standard textbook.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Board of Education
E. D. Rivers
Japan plans to curb U S and British imports
Tokyo reports that the Japanese government will cut down American and British goods entering the country. Foreign firms face blocked exchange and buying permits for the past week. The move aims to rebalance trade previously favorable to the U S and Britain, with France signaling protest and potential retaliation through its embassy.
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Japan
U. S
Tokyo
France
Bright boy interviewn for electrical shop posi tion
Foreman tests applicant with question on electrical terms. The boy replies confidently and humorously that an armature is a guy who sings for Major Bowes.
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Major Bowes
Texas tenants accuse cotton landlords at federal farm hearing
The Resettlement Administration heard 46 applicants for 19 federal farms near here as critics called cotton control tyrannical. Applicants cited landlords seeking cotton acreage, long tenancy with few moves, and the struggle for pasture and garden land despite reports of good yields and personal sustenance.
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M'Gregor
King Cotton
Texas
Resettlement Administration
Elbert Pace
Ben Harrison
Taxogram hints at future taxes as lawmakers cut costs
A 1937 survey shows about 5 000 tax bills introduced across 53 regular and special state legislature sessions. Roughly 1,300 have become law while seven legislatures remain in session, signaling ongoing fiscal policy activity and potential taxpayer impact.
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