District votes approve higher maximum levies for schools
In Fannin County rural and common districts voters approved higher maximum tax rates to fund Gilmore Aikin era school needs. Ballots favored increases to 1.50 per 100 valuation in many districts with one sided margins, including North Fannin 90 to 16 and Ector 71 to 0, plus approval of bond assumptions in several areas.
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North Fannin
Dodd City
Edhube
Riverby
Allens Chapel
China Grove
Savoy
Randolph
Bailey
Gober
Windom
Ector
Telephone
Swanky restaurant patron washes spoon in fingerbowl
A waiter and manager confront a patron washing a spoon in a fingerbowl. The patron explains he wants to avoid ice cream getting on his pocket, a quirky, humorous moment in an upscale dining room.
Editor's nostalgic plea for a fall in pride and pace
In May 1932 Amarillo Globe-News editor Henry Ansley laments prosperity and embraces a "low mood" that curbs vanity, increases home life, neighborly ties, and simple pleasures, contrasting past busy routines with calmer, more social days before his death later that year.
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Amarillo
Texas
Globe-News
Henry Ansley
Marriage strains and court notices in a 1949 Texas page
A fragment shows a man’s rambling reflection on marriage and social clubs, plus two legal notices from Grayson County Texas. One citation requests estate final settlement for W J Bean and Mattie Bean with a sale date August 22 1949. The other probate divorce petition cites Ethyl McCollum versus Royce McCollum with a September 12 1949 answer deadline.
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State of Texas
State of
Texas
Grayson County
W. J. Bean
Mattie Bean
J. A. Bean
Said
Said County
Sherman
J. C. Buchanan
J.C. Buchanan
Marguerite Berry
Ethyl McCollum
A. D
District Court
Court House
Royce McCollum
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
From Depression to Churchgoing in West Texas
A speaker contrasts prior leisure and pride with a shift to faith and church attendance amid a low mood. He recalls preferring golf on Sundays, now attends church regularly and plans prayer meetings if the mood persists. A playful domestic moment follows with a mother and child joke about washing hands.
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Hoover
Texas
Radio thrillers kill 2400 annually says statistician
A Variety statistician estimates that radio crime thrill and soap opera programs kill about 2,400 people yearly. He calculates that the four major networks each remove roughly 50 characters per week, challenging organized crime units to match the figures.
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Statistician
New York
Variety
Murder, Inc
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W. E. Stanford
News-Globe Organization
News-Globe
Bassett Station
Sinclair Products
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Pac Ce Oe
Whitewright Lumber Co
Herbert Harris
Sally Brady
Herbert
Accura
Tomers
R. P. Childress
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Joe Marsh
Specs Allen
Specs
Joe
United States Brewers Foundation
Tive Service
The
First National Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Winin
L.laroe
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