Four Texas Amendments Headed to August Ballot
A special election on August 26 will decide four Texas State Constitution amendments. The proposals cover 3.2 percent beer, up to 20 million dollars in unemployment relief bonds, homestead tax exemptions in remitted counties, and allow counties with 62 000 or more population to adopt home rule charters.
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Whitewright
Texas
State of
Dean
Forty-second
Nors
Aransas, Brooks
Collin
Duval
Galveston
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jim Hogg
Them's Our Sentiments The Clarksville Times and the NRA
The Clarksville Times states its stance under the N R A program. It notes higher costs for newspaper operations and refrains from price increases, urging advertisers and organizations that gain free publicity to favor local printing and avoid outsourcing.
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Deport Times
Clarksville Times
The
Times
the Times
The Polite Editor and a Chinese Rejection Slip
The piece notes editors’ refusals to publish writings and cites a mock, exalted rejection from a Chinese editor praising a manuscript as divine. It also mentions Chinese home entrances designed as vases and lutes in peculiar patterns.
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Manchester Guardian
China
The Perfect State Reassessed by Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton reflects on Millennial expectations from 1782 to the present, citing William Miller and the 1844 misdating. He notes repeated political and social crusades fall short of promised perfection, argues the millennium isn’t near, and that human struggle makes progress more engaging than a flawless, costly state.
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Bruce Barton
Pittsfield
Mass
William Miler
Miller
England
Sydney Smith
Boise Pen
Hoover Blamed in Bank Crisis Negotiations Details Emerge
In Detroit court, Wilson Mills testifies that Herbert Hoover Henry Ford and Senator James Couzens influenced pre crisis talks over loans and bank actions. Mills alleges Couzens blocked an R F C loan, Hoover warned of political risk, and Ford pressured deposit freezes threatening massive withdrawals.
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Detroit
Mich
Herbert Hoover
Henry Ford
James Couzens
Michigan
National—Bank
Harry B. Keidan
Wilson W. Mills
First National Bank
J. Couzens
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Union Guardian Trust Company
Hoover
Mills
Couzens
Ford
Union Guardian
First National
Northwest Fannin County Singing Convention in Whitewright
The Northwest Fannin County Singing Convention will meet in Whitewright next Sunday at 2 PM at the First Baptist Church. The program features old fashioned singing and invites everyone to attend and join in.
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Northwest
Fannin County
Whitewright
R. S. Morehead
First Baptist Church
Hail Storm Damages Crops North of Tom Bean
Rural carrier B W Newman reports a severe hailstorm north of Tom Bean between Tom Bean and Ida. Cotton leaves forms and blooms stripped. many bolls knocked off. Storm spanned about one mile by three or four miles with heavy accompanying rain. Whitesboro and Whitewright regions also recorded substantial rainfall.
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B. W. Newman
Tom Bean
Ida
Student dies in radio experiment at John Tarleton College
Wesley Cunningham, 18, of El Paso and student at John Tarleton College in Stephenville, was electrocuted Monday night while tinkering with a radio. A fellow student woke to a noise, and later found Cunningham dead in the boys barracks with burns on his arm, reportedly after he touched radio tubes with scissors during a fading broadcast.
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Stephenville
Wesley Cunningham
John Tarleton College
el Paso
Cunningham
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Postoffice
Whitewright Sun
N. R. A. Army
Internal Revenue Bureau
William Tyndall
Stateville
Cash Grocery
Palace Theatre
General Revenue Fund
Rose
Walters
S&s
Whitewright On
Ontario
Palace
Cole & Davis Co
Cole & Davis Company
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