School lunch program gains flexibility across Texas counties
Texas county home demonstration agents will help families access expanded school lunch programs. WPA will allow meals for all needy children with free lunches, SMA can buy and distribute protective foods, and advance delivery notices aid planning. Home economists will supervise WPA in-service training and volunteers continue canning surplus produce for hot lunches.
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College Station
Texas
Mildred Horton
A. and M. College Extension Service
WPA
Surplus Marketing Administration
SMA
Verbal Contract Dispute Highlights Tale of Woe
A woman laments a builder's failure to meet an agreement. She mentions a verbal contract and the listener notes that it is not worth the paper it isn’t written on. The exchange underscores doubts about informal promises.
The Spice of Life Social Lines and Jokes
Comic vignettes reveal family quirks and flirtations among neighbors. A daughter’s birthday letter from a fiancé is read aloud while a boy jokes about resemblance. A breakfast invitation and a baby’s silences add light humor to a lively street scene.
Practice Makes Perfect Doctor Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange shows a doctor noting increased coughing and a patient replying that they practiced a lot overnight. The quip frames repetitive effort as the cause of the symptom in a light medical joke.
Candidate pledges to trust the people in crowded event
A candidate declares willingness to trust the people while a small crowd reacts. An onlooker jokes about a grocery, and a door answering scene unfolds with a stranger offering insect powder and a room for rent, which a woman declines before agreeing to take the advertised room.
Factory Home Guard Guards Entrance After Challenge
A factory organizes its own Home Guard with sentries posted at the works main entrance. The manager approaches the gate and is challenged by a sentry who hesitates between duty and deference saying Halt Mr. Brown Who goes there.
Camouflaged Gun Hidden by Trees Stuns Regiment
An artillery officer discovers his men scampering through woods as they reveal they camouflaged the gun so well that they cannot locate it. The sergeant explains their concealment led to the unintended joke among the unit.
Four Letter Word Stuns Commencement Crowd
A speaker at a campus commencement avoids the word push and builds to a pun revealing the door handle bearing the four letter word pull. Audience looks to the door as the punch line lands.
Waiting for a Pig to Grow Long Before Feeding
A boy owns a pig and pledges full care. He delays feeding to let the pig grow longer first, planning to widen it later. His father warns the pig isn’t thriving due to inadequate feeding. The boy remains focused on length instead of fattening.
Say I am not letting harm come to you
A joke exchange among city boys about teaching a girl to swim ends with one boy revealing he is talking about his sister and the other telling him to push her off the dock. The dialogue relies on humor about bravado and a dangerous setup.
Reliable clerk seeks mutual loan exchanges
Advertisement notes a reliable and hardworking clerk who gets paid on Monday and is broke on Wednesday. The person offers to exchange small loans with any honest party who is paid on Wednesday and broke on Monday.
Drafted Youth Declared Insane and Discharged
A young business man drafted for service acted oddly at a training camp, gathering scraps of paper and mumbling. A doctor found him sane and recommended discharge. He received the discharge and shouted with glee that it was the right result.
Reversible Rug Key to Flat Theft Interrogation
A detective questions a nervous tenant about a stolen rug and confirms the item was reversible with red one side and green the other. The exchange highlights the rug’s two-tone detail as a clue to the investigation.
Brown Couple Invite Captain Legion to Event
A colonel and his wife extend an invitation to Captain Legion, requesting the pleasure of his company at a forthcoming event.
Memory of a tramp at the water tank porch
A former resident recalls a talkative tramp fed on a back porch. He challenges the notion of honest work, asking with a shrug what good is work after finishing a simple lunch. The reminiscence evokes earlier railway days and roaming workers.
Driver’s cryptic telegram signals milk truck theft plan
A Detroit born driver for a transport firm sent a terse telegram to the home office claiming he encountered a shadow, then hit it, and declared it wasn’t shadow but a milk truck. He wired $50 and received the money.
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Detroit
Shadow
The Right Key From Nebraska Commencement Search
A Nebraska commencement speaker sought a concise phrase to describe the open sesame to success but had not found it by graduation night as he opened the auditorium door. The story hints at his quest for a memorable formula.
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Nebraska
Dinner Invitation Replies for Captain Legion’s Company
A correspondence notes Captain Legion's company will accept a dinner invitation, except for five men on leave and three on the sick list. The exchange confirms plans despite the absence of those unavailable.
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Captain Legion's
Captain Legion’s
Nose Specialization Joke Ends With a Wink
An old country doctor questions a medical student aiming to specialize in nose diseases. The student confirms, and the doctor slyly asks which nostril, turning the exchange into a light humorous moment about medical trends.
Fly in Currant Bun Delays Glasgow Schoolgirl
A Scottish girl walking home from school buys a currant bun in a Glasgow suburb. She finds a fly in the bun and returns to the baker to complain.
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Glasgow
Another Bun Offer in Curious Scottish Bakery Tale
A child begs for another bun after finding a fly in the first. The baker refuses to replace the bun but offers a currant bun instead, saying he cannot do that but will give her another currant. The exchange showcases a quirky Scottish dialect exchange over bread.
Get Together Day Picnic Definition Draws Jittered Reply
A playful exchange redefines a picnic as a day to better acquaint with insects and pests including ants bugs worms mosquitoes chiggers ticks and poison ivy in a humorous quip between speakers.
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Bitters
On His Rights A Scottish Soldier Returns Home
On his first leave the young Scottish soldier receives a stern lecture from his father about not writing home regularly. The exchange centers on promises to write weekly and a missing reply even when a stamp was included.
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Father
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