Roosevelt Seeks Power to Stabilize Prices and Economy
President Roosevelt asks Congress for authority to set price and rent ceilings, purchase commodities to stabilize prices, and curb installment credit excesses. He compares current inflation to 1915 1920 surge and notes sharp wholesale price rises. The plan creates an Economic Defense Board to shape policy, coordinate defense economic activity, and plan postwar reconstruction.
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Spindletop Birthday Party Marking 40th Anniversary
DESCA HALE urges vitamin rich diets for children to prevent eye problems. A nurse tells how a five year old improved with milk eggs whole grains vegetables and meats. Excess sugar can dull appetite injure health and may contribute to eye issues including cataracts.
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Lonesome Bill’s Legendary Old Stumper Fish Tale
Local letter recounts a tall fishing yarn about Old Stumper a giant fish living in a farm creek and the humorous plan to use a biscuit as bait. The tale describes the fish swallowing the biscuit floating on top of water and dying from thirst, with family making tools from the fish remains and declaring the story proves itself with hay rakes a ladder and church fans.
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Father jokes about son becoming a lawyer
A humorous family remark asks what line the boy will take in life. The father replies they will train him to be a lawyer since he enjoyed meddling in others affairs and might as well earn from it.
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