Crime in Texas Viewed As Nation's Highest Tax Burden
Texas faces an annual crime tax exceeding 100 million dollars, highest per capita at 17 dollars. The piece highlights crime costs, gasoline tax allocations, and compares to sales tax, plus details on pardons, prosecutions, and prison populations under Miriam Ferguson's administration.
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Austin
Texas
State Department
Court of Criminal Appeals
Pardon and Parole Board
Miriam A. Ferguson
Senate Investigating Committee
J. W. E. H. Beck
Cotton Squeeze Hits Southern Growers Through 1932
The discussion traces cotton price pressure from 1923 to 1932 as excess carryover grows. Consumption falls, production and acreage rise, creating a thirteen million bale carryover. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration plans to aid acreage and production adjustments for 1934 to ease the squeeze.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Hog Prices Hit 50 Year Low Last Winter
College Station Texas A and M extension swine expert E M Regenbrecht notes hog prices fell to a fifty year low last winter due to reduced pork exports and foreign competition. He says surplus pork will persist until production is cut and urges Texas farmers to seek corn hog contracts through county agents to join government controls.
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College Station
E. M. Regenbrecht
Texas A. & M. College
Regenbrecht
Texas
Why Hospitals Use a Liquid Laxative
Hospitals and doctors favor liquid laxatives because their dose is measurable and action controllable. A mild liquid laxative typically does not irritate kidneys and can restore regularity without forcing overuse. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a proven liquid laxative widely stocked and suitable for all ages.
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Dr. Caldwell
Odds and facts flash from a 1930s Sun page
A compendium of statistics notes high odds against stock profits for the average man, counts gasoline stations at 318000 in the United States, highway miles surfaced in 1932, and total state highway length. It also cites Canadian youth demographics, 1932 insurance payouts, kidnappings death penalty by states, and Osmium as the heaviest substance.
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United States
Canada
Peru
Paraguay
Hogwallow News Quick Takes and Local Quips
A collection of short items from Hogwallow News includes Hicks weighing a traveling salesman post at Tickville depot. A wife’s sway in business is noted. A boss suspects illness when a man’s wife is ill. Poke Eazley ignores a late night visitor. Fletcher Henstep fights over politics at Bounding Billows. deafness factors in. Yam Sims jokes about owls, and Sap Spradlin imagines a freezing morning lemon stunt.
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Cricket Hicks
Tickville
Texas Wheat Acreage Reduction Yields Big Texas Benefit
The Texas wheat acreage reduction program has cut over half a million acres from wheat. Texas contracts are approved rapidly in Washington due to county agents and local committees. O. B. Martin says total benefit payments this winter and next June will total about 5.3 million dollars.
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College Station
Texas
Washington
Extension Service
O. B. Martin
Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Worse in Reverse Critic Sounds Off on Intermission Etiquette
A theatre critic laments audience chatter during plays and notes public exit sounds are nearly as disruptive as entrance. The remark frames theatergoing as a tense balance between focus and crowds.
Most Farmers Are Expected To Sign Cotton Contracts
Extension Service fronts prepare for the 1934-35 cotton contract signup across 214 counties starting January 1. H. H. Williamson, vice-director and state agent, says a rapid, effective campaign is likely with most cotton growers signing. Signing of options forms from the summer plow-up is expected to finish before January 1.
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H. H. Williamson
Williamson
Pray Without Ceasing as Mary Demonstrates Daily Prayer
A group of ministers discusses the verse prayer without ceasing and a maid Mary explains how daily tasks become moments of prayer. She outlines morning to breakfast routines as continual dialogue with God, prompting the minister to tell Mary to keep praying without ceasing. The Sun sells typewriter carbon.
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Mary
Christmas reflections and civic call to improve Whitewright trade
The preacher notes a 33 percent drop in Sunday school attendance and solves it for his readers. He praises Santa, urges churchgoing, commends town officers, and argues fireworks safety while calling residents to cooperate to make Whitewright the best trading town. He invites all churches to worship and welcomes visitors.
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Santa Claus
Whitewright
Santa
New Universes Seen by Mt Wilson Telescope
Reports from the Mt Wilson telescope describe distant objects estimated at 300 million light years. The science notes include rapid transit in NYC RCA Building elevators and other varied tech curiosities from stage lighting to train uncoupling.
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Mt. Wilson
RCA
New York
London
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National Guard
Borger
Sherman
Moody
East Texas
Sterling
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Poke Eazley
Fletcher Henstep
Bounding Billows
Yam Sims
Sap Spradlin
Southern Ice & Utilities Co
The
Sun
Typewriter
G. C. Ivins
the Baptist Church
Omar Parks
Denison, Texas
Chevrolet
Science
Nibbles
Kirkpatrick
Gomer May
KATY
Tyler
W. M. Roberts, Pres
Tyler, Texas
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