Texas Centennial Asks 1936 Progress Celebration
Corsicana recounts Texas history from Stephen F. Austin to the 1836 declaration and San Jacinto victory. It frames the 1936 Centennial exposition as a tribute to a century of material, spiritual, educational, and social growth.
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Corsicana
Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Green DeWitt
Edwards
Commonwealth
Texas Republic
Sam Houston
Capitol
Columbia
Brazos River
United States
Republic of Texas
Velasco
Austin
Tennessee
Andrew, Jackson
San Jacinto
Houston
Old
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Alamo
Lexington Gonzales
Goliad
Refugio
Nacogdoches
Helpful Household Tips for Cleaning and Cooking
Pass a damp mop over rugs to remove dust and save labor. If cream won t whip add unbeaten white of an egg. Soak dried fruits and vegetables to plump them and shorten cooking. Cook in soaking water. Lightly dampen marred furniture with diluted alcohol and rub with a soft cloth. Avoid letting alcohol stand. Remove scorch stains with peroxide. Add turpentine to boiling water to clean and brighten textiles.
Federal aid again promised UT students for 1934 35
University of Texas and other state institutions will again receive Federal aid covering about a quarter of expenses under a new E R A program. Students may work 43 hours monthly at 35 cents an hour, earning up to 15.05 monthly. 651 UT jobs allocated 428 men 223 women. at least half to freshmen or those not enrolled in January 1934.
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Austin
University of Texas
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
B. I. Moore
Advice for a daughter easing a mother’s loss of a beau
Claude Callan counsels a daughter to comfort her mother after losing a steady beau. The daughter should stay kind, encourage the mother to socialise, involve the father, and help her forget the failed prospect by highlighting that the suitor might have been just like dad.
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Dad
Black Draught praised as reliable vegetable laxative for decades
A Rome Kentucky man, 71, credits Thedford’s Black Draught with relief from biliousness dizziness and head swimming. He and many others keep it at home for prompt constipation relief and general help.
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Thedford
W. J. Vanover
Rome
NRA lifts code rules for small town businesses
Washington Gen Hugh S Johnson on Wednesday removed most code restrictions on 17 kinds of small town businesses. The order follows Roosevelt's relaxation of NRA controls last May and sparks renewed criticism as the NRA becomes a campaign issue ahead of fall elections.
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Washington
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Roosevelt
Local Order Tightens Rules on Child Labor and Trade
An order limits child labor and fair trade rules to towns of 2500 residents or less while exempting hours wages operations price posting and code assessments. Affected businesses include motor vehicle storage and parking barber shops bowling and billiards cleaning and dyeing laundries shoe repair hotels retail baking groceries jewelry tobacco retail trade real estate brokerage restaurants beauty parlors confectionery stores and retail milk.
Show of a Century heads to Texas State Fair
Otto Herold announces the Show of a Century a giant musical extravaganza with over 100 performers booked for the 1934 State Fair of Texas auditorium. Produced by Barnes Caruthers of Chicago the production promises two sensational acts from the American stage for Dallas crowds.
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Texas
Otto Herold
Barnes-Carruthers of
Chicago
Show of a Century headline at 48th Texas State Fair
The article promotes Lottie Mayers Disappear ing Water Ballet and sensational acts including ten year old Manuel King and his ten African lions. Willie West Mc Gintie Odeon Male Octet Allan off Imperial Ballet Hudson sisters and other musical stars are part of The Show of a Century. The event runs October 6 to 21 at low prices during the Texas State Fair.
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Lottie Mayers
Manuel King
Willie West
McGintie
Odeon
Allanoff
Imperial Ballet
Hudson Sisters
Texas
Arithmetic Humor in Dialect Cartoon
A humorous exchange features Lou boasting he has learned to add the oughts but still struggles with numbers. The dialogue uses playful dialect to illustrate early schooling rhythms.
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Pascal Farley
First National Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Neptune
Texas State College For Women
CSA
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O. L
Pig) Jones
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright
Geroge G. Pope
Howard McFarland
D. E. McCoy
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