Terracing boosts yields on Texas farms across counties
J S Pollard of Bailey County reports contouring sudan yields of 310 pounds per acre versus 150 on noncontoured ground and plans terraces to save water. Carson County's G T Cosgrave harvests a second terraced crop. M P Leaming notes Colgrove’s records prove terrace farming pays on the Plains. Coleman County tenant W B Atkinson grows 65 acres of cowpeas as a soil builder. About 1,500 Coleman County farmers cooperate in soil conservation and terracing. Sabine County’s initial terracing levels rise from one in 1926 to dozens now. demonstration terracing boosts 4‑H and adult interest. Denton County’s Gus Egan promotes interplanting corn with cowpeas, yielding up to 9 1/2 bushels more corn per acre. R D Sims reports gains from three-row peas.
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J. S. Pollard
Stegall
Bailey County
Sudan
G. T. Cosgrave
Skellytown
Carson County
Colgrave
M. P. Leaming
Colgrove
W. B. Atkinson
Coleman County
Atkinson
C. V. Robinson
Denton
Gus H. Egan
Denton County
R. D. Sims
Egan
Sims
G. R. Warren
Woman shot over face in Kosovska Mitrovica tragedy
In Kosovska Mitrovica Yugoslavia a woman Fata is shot dead for refusing to cover her face while pear gathering with her sister-in-law Zulia. Her father Esen killed Zulfa and Raman after returning from the mountains. The brother protected by trying to intervene was also killed.
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Belgrade
Kosovska Mitrovica
Yugoslavia
Fata
Zulia
Esen
Raman
Zulfa
The Motorist's Sin in Driving Confidence
A 1925 model versus a recent model car debate cites the National Safety Council data showing older cars in fewer accidents and newer cars overconfident. The piece warns all drivers to treat any car as potentially lethal and avoid overconfidence on the road.
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National Safety Council
Industrial News Review
The Spice of Life in a Colorful Household
A mistress scolds her colored cook but the cook retorts she is talking to nobody. The scene shifts to a suggestion that the church need a bell, prompting lines about a bell for the new church and a miner’s quip about a whistle on steam powered church.
Round About Age Jokes in Courtroom Exchange
A magistrate questions a witness on her age. She replies she is around twenty, and he jests about the number of years since she has "got round it." The exchange underscores sly courtroom humor in a formal setting.
Conductor Reassures Passenger After Tunnel Entry
An elderly woman fears for safety as the train enters a tunnel. The conductor pacifies her, saying the company put her in this hole and will see her through.
Office Boy Turns Callers Into Conference
A new office boy answers a caller asking if the boss is in. The boy asks the caller if they are a salesman, a bill collector, or a friend. The reply is All three, and the boss is in a business conference out of town. the caller is invited to step in.
A Subaltern Asked for a Proper Mustache
A British humor vignette describes a young subaltern at a guards depot told to grow a proper mustache not like Chaplin. When asked what else he wants he asks if there is a preferred color, prompting a terse exchange about appearance and color.
Lost watch recovered through paper ad in Florida
A Florida reader says they lost a gold watch valued highly and placed a lost and found ad. The next day they discovered the watch in a suit pocket at home, praising the newspaper for helping recover the item.
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Florida
Rain Dance on a Texas Ranch
A northern farm hand works for a Texas rancher as a long drought ends. The man joyfully dances in the rain while the rancher urges him to come inside. The exchange highlights relief that rain will fill Texas’s wells and fields.
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Texas
Equipping a Small Town Church by a Steadfast Pastor
A devoted pastor called to a mining town built up a growing parish and led the construction of a new church. He installed a steam heating plant amid the revival, expanding the congregation and strengthening the community through faithful service.
Dems, Horsethief Lines Stir Maine Campaign
A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine hawked a joke asking for a Democrat in attendance. A long whiskered man rose and declared his Dem status, prompting a quip about being a Republican if forebears were thieves. Another gag contrasts a native's long local residence with gas stations.
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Maine
Politician and card player clash over politics and poker
A politician and a card player argued about politics versus poker. The politician said politics differs from poker. The card player replied that in politics you play first and cut afterwards.
Sailor’s Wry Take on Shipwrecks Quips
A stranger questions a sailor who claims four shipwrecks and asks about the moment waves crash over him. The sailor replies simply with the blunt response damp and dry humor marks the exchange, capturing a nautical patter.
Freshmen Dorms Sparks Classroom Humor
A campus quip contrasts a visitor asking about a building with a sophomore's explanation that the greenhouse is the freshmen dormitory. The exchange highlights student life humor and campus geography.
Keep a Good Laxative Always in Your Home
A home advice note urges keeping a reliable laxative like Thedford's Black Draught to prevent constipation. Mrs. Perry Hicks of Belton Texas endorses the product after 21 years of use for biliousness and other ailments, praising its effectiveness and urging families to have it on hand.
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Thedford
Perry Hicks
Belton
Texas
Jack
What Is Success A definition from Success Magazine
A reader’s prize definition of success holds that success means starting life with a definite worthy purpose and achieving it. It includes overcoming bad habits, finding joy in simple sights, suffering bravely, loving nobly, keeping conscience pure, avoiding vanity, mixing with saints and sinners without becoming judgmental, feeling kinship with all humanity, working cheerfully, accepting criticism, recognizing others rights, daily mind and body cleansing, showing sympathy to animals, and believing love as constructive while hate harms. It ends with self effacement in service to humanity, feeling at day’s end that one’s deeds were near perfect even if not praised, and thus nearer humanity’s ideal.
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Success Magazine
Almedia B. Waltz
Ape Man Seized Climbing Trees Near Riga
In Latvia near Riga foresters captured a naked hairy man described as half man and half ape. He fled up a tree, shrieked Tarzanlike, fall after a shot, and proved to be a farm laborer missing for years. Officials say he cannot speak and reacts with delight to food.
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Riga
Latvia
Who Paid the Merchant’s Advertising Bill
A merchant sold 150 suits at 19 dollars after spending 100 dollars on advertising, with profits on each sale. The riddle asks who ultimately bore the advertising cost, noting the prior winter plan where advertising was not used and profits differed. The answer hinges on whether the advertising expense was covered by the merchant’s margin or by the customer through the higher price.
Merchants Split Over Advertising Exchange Debate
In a community exchange, some merchants rejected advertising while others profited. A newspaper man received $100 for ads, a merchant earned $500 from winter suit sales, double the prior season, and the payment split among those who support or oppose ad campaigns remains contested.
Father Dies After Daughter's Spelling Bee Loss
Morris Fenyes, 34, a Brooklyn printer, collapsed after his daughter Edith, 10, failed to win an elimination spelling bee in a New York broadcasting studio. He was taken to Emergency Hospital then his physician's office, where he died hours later of heart ailment.
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New York
Morris Fenyes
Brooklyn
Edith
Man leaps for ship as it pulls away yarn told
National Vice Commander Lou Probst of Wyoming recounts a tale of a man racing down a pier toward a departing ship. The vessel moved several yards out, the man jumped and hit the deck, and after regaining consciousness the ship was hundreds of yards offshore. He called out to a boy asking if he could jump again.
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Lou Probst
Wyoming
Slightly Off Insurance dialogue unfolds in quirky exchange
In a brief skit a doctor asks about insanity in the family and Cholly responds with a jokey line about the paterfamilias thinking he’s the head of the house. The exchange captures a humorous slice of domestic life.
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Cholly
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