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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
6
The Bureau of Standards warned of widespread home death traps with 34 500 annual deaths from accidents, second only to autos. A 36 000 yearly auto toll leads the list. A questionnaire seeks home safety improvements across stairs lighting rails and chemical, electrical, and fire risks. The piece ends with a humor vignette about a Cath.
The Texas A and M Jersey herd of 47 cows averaged 386.46 pounds of butterfat per cow for Sept 1934 to Aug 1935, the highest for a herd of its size in the United States. The herd features Gamboge Fox Agatha, a gold medal cow yielding over 700 pounds annually, and the dairy operates a modern $40,000 creamery employing about 20 students.
The 1794 Blue Law structure in Pennsylvania is crumbling as Sunday activity increases in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Deliveries and entertainment now occur on Sundays, with only remnants of the old code still in force.
Francis J. Walsh, longtime opponent of the Blue Laws, recounts a decades long campaign to open public playgrounds and water sports on Sundays. He notes early efforts focused on youth access, milk delivery hours, and Sunday sports to aid the working man.
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