Farm Outlook Blamed For Stock Decline
New York and Washington weigh the farm outlook as the stock market dips. Secretary Wallace faces pressure over the new crop control law, while Farm Bureau leaders call the farm problem the era's toughest since the mid 1930s. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows 1938 cash farm income at about 7.5 billion, down from 8.6 in 1937 and 7.94 in 1936, with wheat and cotton hit hardest by price declines.
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New York
Washington
Wallace
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Sell Good Cotton At Premium Price
Greenville reports Hunt County farmers pooled 26 bales of Acala cotton selling Tuesday at 9.33 cents per pound, 5.35 above the regular 7/8 inch staple price. Averaging 1 1/16 inch, the cotton was bought by J. Kahn Company at the Greenville compress, ginned at the Greenville Cooperative gin and graded strict middling. Turnout ranged from 38 to 40.5 percent as the first in a weekly pool series for Acala cotton grown from seed brought in last spring by the Greenville chamber of commerce. Between 800 and 1,000 bales are expected to be ginned this season. pools are open to all Acala growers.
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Greenville
Hunt County
J. Kahn Company
Greenville Compress
California
Greenville Chamber of Commerce
French Hit by Steady Tax Rise
Paris reports French economists calculating a Paris taxpayer with 50,000 francs in 1914 paid 2,817 francs in taxes. If income rises to 350,000 francs after devaluations, taxes would be about 182,000 francs. They say taxes must be reduced for recovery as France’s state levies stifle the country.
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Paris
France
Gearless car concept unveiled in Cambridge presentation
Prof Frederick C Lea, presenting at the British Association meeting in Cambridge, outlined a gearless automobile using a centrifugal pump instead of a gearbox and clutch. He said the system could apply to airplanes ships and trains and cited 65 000 miles of testing results. An English firm was reported to be forming to promote the invention credited to Italian engineer Commendatore Piero Salerni.
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Cambridge
England
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Frederick C. Lea
Sheffield University
Lea
Piero Salerni
Ten Beautiful Words Recited by Denton Campus Girls
A famed visiting poet at Texas State College for Women asked the students to name the 10 most beautiful English words. They offered holiday letter check dollar food date night class dismissed movies sleep trucking. The piece notes Osaka, Japan hosts the only museum of electrical science in the Far East.
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Denton
Texas State College For Women
Far East
Osaka
Japan
Pianos Offered For Sale And School Budget Hearing Set
Three pianos stored near Whitewright include a small studio upright, a spinet console, and a used piano with sale offered against them. For inquiries write Jackson Finance Company, 1101 Elm, Dallas, Texas. An open Whitewright Independent School District board meeting will be held August 26, 1938 at 8 pm in the vocational agriculture room to adopt the 1938-39 budget.
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Whitewright
Jackson Finance Company
Elm
Dallas
Texas
Whitewright Independent
Chance of Adoption Over Parenthood for Superior Baby
Dallas readers learn that psychiatrists say couples have a 50 percent better chance of a superior baby through adoption than natural birth. Hope Cottage, Dallas’ prominent foundling institution, tests health and heredity, screens foster homes, and enforces strict rules. Foster parents must be under 40, financially secure, home owners if possible, psychologically fit, and commit to informing the child of adoption status.
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Hope Cottage
Dallas
W. H. Carson
Vs. Carson
Fort Worth
Local Notes From Orangeville And Nearby Towns
Aunt Nettie Bowen visits Whitewright while Mollie Smith and Peggy stay with relatives in Leonard. Joe, Paul and Alton Bowen visit Greenville. Garland visits his father. Oklahoma visitors stay with Aunt Bettie Blant. Woodrow Kirk moves from J D Richey’s. Odis Wilder of Valdosta spends time with O W Wilder family. John and Billie Reneau visit relatives in McKinney. Norma Anderson and Phyllis Brown visit Valley Creek. Clarence Rhody ill. John Savage and wife visit Jim Reneau family.
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Nettie Bowen
John Ross
Whitewright
Mollie Smith
Peggy
Leonard
Joe Smith
Paul
Alton Bowen
Greenville
Mr. Smith
Garland
Henderson
Oklahoma
Bettie Blant
Woodrow Kirk
J. D. Richey
Odis Wilder
Valdosta
O. W. Wilder
John D
Billie Reneau
McKinney
Clarence Rhody
Norma Anderson
Phyllis Brown
Valley Creek
John Savage
Jim Reneau
Ute Age Issue Halts Ute Pension Eligibility
Denver Colo The age question blocks elderly Ute Indians at Ignacio Colo from proving eligibility for old age pensions. Welfare Director Earl M Kouns notes several claimants say they were born during the year of the big snow or the year of the big wind and some claim to have been scouts for Kit Carson. A report will go to the Social Security Board in Washington for further instructions.
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Denver
Colo
Ignacio
Earl M. Kouns
State Welfare
Kit Carson
Kouns
Social Security Board
Washington
Odd Quotes on Wives and Fame Echo Through History
A collection of witty and pointed lines about wives and spouses from figures such as McKinley Shakespeare Carlyle Goldschmidt and Twain, illustrating how personal bonds collides with public life and ambition. The quotes spotlight marital dynamics from historical luminaries.
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Carter
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H. T. Atterberry
Paul Owen
Ely
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Allen T. Short
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T. E. Barbee
Dapple Gray
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C. C. Clark
J. E. Dopson
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Auto Finance Company
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Mgr
S. Travis Sr
Sherman
Dallas News
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Sun Office
William McKinley
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Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle
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