Hold Foreclosures in Texas Only 824
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation reports Texas foreclosures at 824 in three years, with 98 percent of HOLC loans refinances of defaulted mortgages. Short Texas redemption period, only forty days, explains higher foreclosure rate relative to loan count. Total HOLC Texas loans reached 44,360 amounting to $103,208,774. foreclosures remain a small fraction of total debt. Dallas County saw $12,898,277 in HOLC loans with 4,856 borrowers able to obtain funds.
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Washington
Texas
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
HOLC
Lone Star
Federal Corporation
Dallas County
Corporation
Businessmen urge Roosevelt reelection on nationwide broadcast
Four prominent executives Edward Filene William Regnery Maurice Breidenthal and William McCaffery praised New Deal measures crediting Roosevelt with pulling business from failure to prosperity They urged his re election during a Democratic National Committee broadcast from Boston Kansas City Rochester and Chicago praising recovery and warning against changing leaders
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New York
Roosevelt
Edward A. Filene
William Filene
Filene
Boston
America
Breidenthal
Kansas City
Landon
Rochester
McCaffery
Fragmentary Dialect Exchange From Historic Page
A short dialect snippet shows Rastus urging Sambo as ill and joking that he checks the dead list nightly for his own name. The exchange captures period speech and emphasizes humor around illness and mortality.
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Rastus
Good Laxative Advice From Thedford’s Black Draught
A home health note extols keeping a reliable laxative in the house. Mrs. Perry Hicks of Belton Texas praises Thedford’s Black Draught for biliousness constipation and other ills needing a laxative. She claims it has given good results over 21 years.
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Thedford
Perry Hicks
Belton
Texas
Time Extensions For Farm Loans Depend on Merit
Washington. W S Myer head of the Farm Credit Administration said farmers in drought areas will receive extended time to meet FCA loan payments if cases are meritorious. No blanket extensions. each case judged on its own merits amid crop losses from grasshoppers. Farmers may repay from livestock sales or reserves, with $45 million paid last year against $41 million if principal payments were required.
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Washington
W. S. Myer
Farm Credit Administration
Brouth
FCA
Myer
Farm Credit
Drouth
Resettlement Administration
Senator Couzens Backs Roosevelt for Reelection
Detroit United States Senator James Couzens a Republican declares support for President Roosevelt in the 1936 re election bid. He says the nation needs Roosevelt and notes his Senate race is not the central issue. Couzens, first elected in 1922, faces primary challenger Wilber M. Brucker, former Michigan governor.
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Detroit
United States
James Couzens
Roosevelt
Couzens
Senate
Michigan
Wilber M. Brucker
Science Nibbles and Odd Medical Notes From Szeged to Detroit
A Szeged University report highlights a new vitamin for blood vessel ailments. Babies may gain from sodium citrate maltose and dextrin in early life per Dr. Howard L. Eder. Wheat straw cellulose mills operate in Italy and South America. Artificial cellulose sponges now rival natural ones. Guinea pigs on Vitamin C deficient diets show ivy insensitivity per Dr. F A Simon. Dr A S Cameron at Northern Illinois College of Optometry discusses correcting eye faults with colored light with over 90 percent success reported at the Detroit meeting.
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Szeged University
Hungary
Howard L. Eder
Santa Barbara
Italy
South America
F. A. Simon
Journal of
Immunology
A. S. Cameron
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
American Optometric Association
Detroit
Whimsical Exchange About Fishing for Whales
A street scene joke features a stranger asking a boy what he fishes for. The boy replies he is fishing for whales, noting there are no whales in the pond, and adds that nothing else remains to fish for either.
Physicians Warn Dangers From Tactless Sick Room Jokes
Chicago report on Dr. George B. Lake urging physicians to watch patient fears and emotional distress. He argues blunt talk or gloomy jokes about death or finances can worsen illness, and stresses individualized care. A humor exchange about compliments and cooking ends the clip.
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Chicago
George B. Lake
Clinical Medicine
Rariologis
Household Hints and Quick Cooking Tips
Drain juices from fruits and vegetables before plating. Use a colander for five minutes to drain juices quickly. Cover a kettle with a glass pie plate when stewing to monitor while reducing steam. Do not wash art muslin curtains in warm water. use hot water and rinse as it cools, add vinegar if green or ammonia if lilac or pink. Custards can be cooked on top of the stove when the oven is in use. keep boiling water around the custard until set. A courtroom quip about speeding cases contrasts with a judge named Fogge awaiting disposition of 27 speeding matters.
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Luther Gordon
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