Last Call for Winter Pastures in the Southwest
The piece urges Southwestern farmers to diversify beyond cotton toward balanced farming with winter pastures. It cites 1924 Oklahoma data showing higher wealth growth when livestock income exceeds cotton. stresses government payments now reward good farming, and promotes crops like barley wheat oats rye and winter legumes. Winter pastures can be sown now through November, with earlier planting yielding more grazing.
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Oklahoma
Chemurgy
Texas Experiment Station
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Drunk Driving Appeals Face Stronger Texas Penalties
Austin report shows a rise in licenses suspended for driving while intoxicated. Ralph L. Buell of the state drivers license division says more cases are being filed and prosecuted vigorously. Through the current fiscal year, 1,152 licenses suspended on conviction vs 1,003 in 1937 38. 264 in 1936 37. Buell notes suspensions reflect catching and convicting more drivers, not just more drinking.
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Austin
Ralph L. Buell
Buell
Cotton Bagging On Small Percentage Of Texas Cotton
The Agriculture Department reports 233,643 cotton bagging patterns sold in Texas under an AAA program for the year ending June 30, enough to cover 7.55 percent of Texas’ 1938 cotton crop. A New Orleans mill, bidder for manufacture, sells patterns to producers at 45 cents each with a 28 cent indemnity, totaling 73 cents per pattern, helping offset weight losses from lighter coverings.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
New Orleans
Texas Largest Land Owner In World Revealed
Texas is the only state with vast unsold and submerged lands. about 643,685 acres of unsold public school land and roughly 1,000,000 acres of submerged coastal land, plus river beds. Leases in Sabine and Big Wichita rivers have earned millions, while UT and state systems hold millions more acres. Oil wealth and royalties shape future tax relief.
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Austin
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Sabine River
Wichita River
University of Texas
Penitentiary
Silver Lining for Beer Stein Cans and More
Federal Bureau of Standards researchers report silver coatings in tin cans resist acids kill bacteria after sealing and boost spray efficacy against fungi and bacteria. Small silver additions to stainless steel greatly reduce saltwater pitting, potentially cutting ship painting and dry docking time. Silver coatings improve bearings in engines and improve heat and current handling in brushes for motors.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Standards
Village Forest aims to plant 1500 trees in Burton Ohio
Burton Geauga County plans a community forest of 1500 trees with foresight toward future revenue from lumber. The project mirrors European forests known for careful timbering and replanting, featuring species such as spruce, poplar, red and white pine, locust and maple to suit the region.
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Burton
Ohio
Geauga County
Maple Syrup Fame
Europe
Tyler Telegraph
Collections Poor Deacon Jones at Church Collection
A racially dated cartoon caption depicts Deacon Jones asking about the collections while Rastus responds that he has not paused to empty the collection box. The exchange uses stereotyped dialect and reflects period humor.
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Deacon Jones
Bradder Rastus
Is there any certain way of stopping a woman continually spending money on gloves
A harassed reader asks how to curb a woman's glove purchases and another reader suggests giving a diamond ring as a counter. The exchange presents advice style Q and A about finances and relationships.
A Brave Man Wonders What Mama Fears
A brief exchange presents a brave man answering fears with focus on one exception. The child questions common dangers like bugs snakes caterpillars spiders and storms while the man insists he fears only something associated with mama rather than the world. The dialogue highlights affection and protective concern.
Soil depth and farm payments tied to erosion efforts
Grover Hill of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the Southern district told Texas and Oklahoma AAA committees that Texas farms average seven inches of tillable soil. He urged more soil conservation focus as the 1940 crop payment program may be reduced for farmers not preventing erosion.
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Texas
Grover Hill
Amarillo
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Oklahoma
Turkeys Should Be Fed Properly for Market Readiness
Texas turkey producers are urged to begin feeding programs by Sept. 15 and switch to full feed by Oct. 1 to avoid thin birds when marketed. Poultry expert Geo. P. McCarthy of Texas A&M Extension recommends a complete ration of fattening mash plus grain, warm birds before feeding, and vaccination against pox using wing web stab and pigeon strain vaccine.
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College Station
Texas
Geo. P. McCarthy
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Oklahoma Gin Company Wrecks 35 Gins This Year
Pauls Valley Oklahoma a crew began dismantling the old Gray gin on South Pine street. Owned by the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company the gin may be moved west or salvaged. The company has abandoned or wrecked about 35 gins in the state this year due to falling cotton production and fewer operating gins.
Rain Camedown Summer Rain Poem Card
The verse portrays rain falling on a town and a boy at play as people react. It contrasts summer loveliness for some with blight for others, capturing fleeting mood through imagery and a single author attribution to Robert Wistrand.
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Robert Wistrand
Nothing Out of the Way The Preacher
A humor piece recounts a preacher noting a husband leaving church during a sermon and the wife quipping he suffers sleepwalking. The Sun office advertises adding machine paper for sale.
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Sun Office
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T. W. Gattis
Louis Randle
California
Clint McMillin
Trenton
Em Montgomery
Clovis
N. M
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Denison
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Luther Gordon
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Nat’l Bank
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