Notices set fees for entertainments and memorials in local paper
The Whitewright Sun states all notices of entertainments with admission fees and memorial resolutions will be charged at regular advertising rates. It also notes a congressman urging publication of income tax returns. Public works delays warned by Secretary Ickes prompt action on approved projects. Illinois shifts from real estate taxes to a two percent sales tax, moving burden to property owners and less affluent residents.
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Ickes
Illinois
Texas Governor Candidate F G Thompson Proposes Odd Planks
Grayson County’s F G Thompson of Sherman appears as a gubernatorial hopeful in a Dallas News letter. He lists 19 platform planks including taxing bachelors twenty five dollars and old maids twelve fifty, dividing the state into five states, and funding railroads from bus line taxes.
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Grayson County
Texas
F. G. Thompson
Sherman
Dallas News
On Deposit in National Bank on Jan 1
If you have on deposit in any national bank in the United States on Jan 1 any sum of money up to 2500 dollars you need have no fear for the safety of the deposit under federal bank guarantees. The notice emphasizes federal backing and reassures savers about protection.
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United States
Deposits Guaranty Law Extends to Federal Reserve Members
The deposits guaranty law becomes effective on that date. All Federal Reserve member banks including national and many state banks must accept the guaranty. Nonmember banks may apply to have their deposits guaranteed by meeting stability requirements, and most are expected to apply.
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Federal Reserve System
Auto owners told to register cars in home counties now
Attorney General department rules require motorists to register automobiles in their home counties this year. Licenses plates may be seized if owners register outside their home counties. Some drivers had previously registered elsewhere to hinder identification, though counties retain license fees locally.
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Attorney General’s Department
Bank pamphlet attacks commodity dollar in Roosevelt era
The Chase National Bank of New York circulated a 32 page pamphlet titled On the Practical Impossibility of a Commodity Dollar to oppose President Roosevelt’s program. The author expresses doubt about the bank’s influence but supports the President for exposing issues in New York banks and prioritizing the people over money changers.
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Chase National Bank of New York
Roosevelt
Chase National Bank
United States
New York
The $50,000 Per Fatal Traffic Crash Cited
The National Safety Council around 50 000 dollars per fatal crash as a conservative community cost argues with figures of 30000 dollars per life and a broader impact including 35 non fatal injuries and four property damage accidents per fatality. It compares traffic deaths to wars in human cost.
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Sidney J. Williams
Public Safety Division
National Safety Council
United States
Community service urged for road safety education
In a Rotarian Magazine excerpt, D. C. Duncan of Appalachian Electric Power Company compares war casualties to motor-accident deaths, noting 325 000 Americans killed in fifteen years. He urges citizens to support accident-prevention campaigns and better traffic laws and conditions.
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D. C. Duncan
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Blanket Code Extends NRA Codes Political Pressure Rise
The piece argues the blanket codes are extended for four months, undermining voluntary compliance and enabling broader regulator reach. It notes exceptions weaken the system, urges uniform NRA application, and calls for early shift to permanent individual codes while defending natural living and criticizing processed foods. It includes a rural health note on sleeping sickness and an exhortation to live naturally.
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NRA
Dallas News
Arnold Waggoner and Arnold unite in Whitewright marriage
Mr L M Waggoner of Sherman and Miss Lucile Arnold of Tom Bean were united in marriage at four o clock Saturday afternoon at the Baptist Parsonage in Whitewright. Rev G C Ivins officiated. They were accompanied by C M Kilgore and Miss Madie Lee Arnold sister of the bride.
Boy Scout News From Troop Two Meets And Plans Camp
The Boy Scouts of troop two held a Tuesday meeting with Jack Pat Meador Albert Lea Jackson O A Hefner Bill Newman and Boyd Newman present. Mack Pierson scoutmaster presided. Winter camp at Camp Bonham will be December 28 and 29 with five or six boys attending. Parents may call the camp by telephone. Scouts thank supporters for donated toys to the needy.
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Boy Scouts of
Troop Number Two
Jack
Jim Pat Meador
Albert Lea Jackson
O. A. Hefner
Bill Newman
Boyd Newman
Mack Pierson
Camp Bonham
Y M C A Liquor Creed Encourages Temperance
The New York City Y M C A weekly issues a liquor creed urging youths to think through temperance. It calls for obeying liquor laws, avoiding drunkenness, not encouraging drinking, and studying effects on body and society. It emphasizes personal philosophy and practical temperance actions.
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New York City
Young Men’s Christian Association
United States
Sun Advertises Typewriter Supplies For Sale
The Sun lists typewriter paper and ribbons, adding machine paper, and typewriter car bon items available for purchase.
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The
Sun
British Navy Finds Color Blindness Higher Among Gods
The report notes one in ten British gods show color blindness. It mentions a new fossil link from Belgium Congo and a caved jawbone fragment claimed as the oldest human bone by Dr J S B Leakey near Victoria Nyanza. A Western Reserve antiseptic allegedly far exceeds carbolic acid in power yet is non poisonous to tissues. Inland crocodile fossils appear along the Potomac and Pleistocene wolves in cold regions over 100000 years ago were found there.
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Belgian Congo
Victoria Nyanza
Africa
J. S. B. Leakey
Western Reserve University
Potomac River
Practical kitchen tips and home science curiosities
A collection of varied household hints including fruit drink ratios, meringue finishing with nuts, grease removal tricks using celery, decorating cautions for carved meats, French dressing flavoring with onion juice, hiccups remedies with glycerine, wart treatment with warm water and zinc oxide, fumigation methods with vinegar on a hot shovel, and a water covered pane cutting experiment with scissors.
Lost Item Adverts Bring Strong Returns in Want Column
When you lose something, try a Want Column advertisement. Readers report quick, practical results at a low cost, making this a worthwhile remedy for missing possessions or valuables.
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J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright Sun
Neck of the Woods
Beauty For Sale
Featuring Leo Corillo
Annie
Wallace Beery
Marie Dressler
Metro-Goldwyn
Hollywood
Alice Brady
Albert T. Reid
Sun Office
Universe—station
L & W Cafe
Lute Loy
O. D. Worthley
Arnold-Waggoner
BOY Scout News
Science
Nibbles
Uruguay
Cole & Davis Co
Whitewright Lumber Co. “Neighborly Service
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