Our Defense Size of Our Defense Program
The article outlines a national defense buildup with a plan to raise the army to 1.2 million and equip 800,000 more, funded by multiple appropriations in 1940. It details the National Defense Advisory Commission’s role to translate laws into supplies, coordinating industries, materials, plants, and logistics to arm and mobilize quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Defense Advisory Commission
Washington, D. C
Army
Navy
National Guard
Congress
Unusual Fires Across Texas Reported In Heat Wave
Fire commissioner Marvin Halli cites peculiar hazards from summer heat. A sunlit fish bowl ignited a blaze in Fredericksburg while a water bottle caused a Dallas fire. He notes such fires are rare but unacceptable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Marvin Halli
Fredericksburg
Hall
Dallas
Pressure Speaker Seeks Donations as Crowd Rises
In a fundraising moment the speaker asks for ten dollar contributions and the room responds with stand and applause while a musician prepares to play the Star-Spangled Banner.
O Daniel to Purge State Boards After Re Election
Governor O'Daniel plans a broad shakeup of state boards and commissions in his second term to gain majority control. He aims to replace the Railroad Commissioner on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission and will install new members on the Public Safety and Game, Fish and Oyster, Liquor Control, and Insurance boards among others. The moves follow his pledge to clean out political stables and create a political majority across agencies while evaluating key posts and terms ending through 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
O'Daniel
O’daniel
Ernest O. Thompson
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Capitol
Thompson
Compact Commission
Harry Hines
Wichita Falls
Hines
Public Safety Commission
Game
Liquor Control Board
Board of Insurance Commissioners
George Cottingham
Houston
Public Safety Department
Edwin Lacy
Longview
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
A. E. Wood
Gene Howe
Amarillo
Liquor Board
D. K. Martin
San Antonio
W. O. Yarborough
Corpus Christi
Game Commission
Texas Liquor Control Board
W. D. Bradfield
Dallas
Bradfield
Senate
D. J. Decherd
Flatonia
Carpenter-Miller
R. G. Waters
State Casualty Insurance
Insurance Board
Walter Woodward
Coleman
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Orville Carpenter
C. R. Miller
U. T
State Board of Health
State Prison Board
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Livestock Sanitary Commission
State Board of Education
University of Texas Board of Regents
State Teachers’ Colleges
A. & M. College
College of Arts and Industries
Kingsville
New Chain Letter Promises 15799 Women After Five Names
John Bort Graham, editor of the Rotary Lubricator in Waxahachie, reports a letter beginning in Reno claiming a chain that costs nothing. It instructs sending the letter to five friends and sending one’s wife to the man at the top, promising 15799 women upon completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bort Graham
Rotary Lubricator
Waxahachie
Reno
Richardson Rotary Bulletin
Prophetic 1908 Tale Of Modern War Predicted
Seattle report recounts Arthur B. Reeves 1908 Hampton's Broadway Magazine article foresight on aerial torpedoes anti-aircraft guns mine laying motorcars electric artillery and a 1938 war with dirigibles seismographs spectroscopes armored cars sub submarines and rapid transcontinental flights for war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Arthur B. Reeve
Reeve
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Hampton
Broadway
J. N. Farrar
London
Paris
New York
Boston
City Hotel opens in 1794 with 73 rooms in New York
The City Hotel began operation in 1794 as America’s first real hotel in New York City and offered 73 rooms. A decade later tobacco use spread globally, circling back to the Americas via Spain, the Philippines, China, Siberia and Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
City Hotel
New York City
Spain
Philippines
China
Sibera
Alaska
Also Mentioned on This Page
Glen Earnheart Benefit Association
Whitewright
State Insurance Department
Safe Deposit Box
The
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Industrial Accident Board
H. F. Martin
Board of Control
A. Y. Creager CO. M. & P. Bank Building
Sherman, Texas
Opportunity
Sun
the Whitewright Sun
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!