Social Security SS-1 Form Announced for Old-Age Benefits
The Treasury Department released the first form for old-age benefits under the Social Security Act. The new monthly payroll tax report SS-1 will be mailed soon and requires four copies. It asks for totals only: number of employees, taxable wages, employer and employee tax at 1 percent, adjustments, and total taxes. The form must be filed by February 28, 1937, with the collector of internal revenue. Detailed employee records are deferred for later, easing immediate setup for Texas employers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue
Texas
Ford Patent for Rear Engine Car Design
Ford wins a patent for a new automobile layout with the engine mounted in the rear crosswise to the chassis. The clutch transmission and differential are a unit mounted on rubber, with rights assigned to Ford Motor Company of Dearborn.
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Ford
Washington
Patent Office
Henry Ford
Patent
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Mich
Poker and river gamblers mark poker's grand return
The piece traces poker from its Civil War era heyday on Mississippi river boats to modern revival aboard ships. It notes famed terms like poker face and four flusher, the crooked tricks river gamblers used such as marked decks and four fixed decks, and recalls legendary games with huge sums won and lost.
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St. Louis
New Orleans
Robert E. Lee
United States
England
France
Packet Atlantic
School Fund Shrinks Despite Higher Per Capita Share
Austin reports the available school fund is far smaller than a year ago despite a per pupil apportionment rise to 19 dollars. Auditor figures show income declines, with Sept 1935 balance at 3.65 million dropping to 1.48 million in 1936. Textbook costs and admin expenses press the fund, leaving about 22 million due by Aug 31, 1937.
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Austin
State Board of Education
American Wives Prefer Cavemen As Their Spouses
At the thirty first annual convention of the American Sociological Association in Chicago, W. P. Meroney of Baylor University argues that most marriages still favor male dominance. He notes wives seek substitution to gain what marriage lacks without abandoning other valued contributions, and that dissolution remains a social last resort though waning in strength.
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Chicago
Ill
American Sociological Association
Mosday
W. P. Meroney
Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Meroney
AUTOMOBILE LOANS OFFERED FOR REFINANCE AT ONCE
Auto finance ad offers loans of any amount or term with immediate action. Bring license receipt and car for inspection. F W Creager manager at 117% S Travis St Sherman. Plus a Rotary Club appreciation note praising Whitewright Presbyterians for Friday luncheons. Administrative notice from Chessteen W Pope as administrator of Elizabeth H Pope estate in Grayson County Texas calling for debts and claims with deadline.
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Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Whitewright Rotary Club
Presbyterian Church
Gomer May
Whitewright
State OF Texas
Grayson
Elizabeth H. Pope
I. Chessteen
W. Pope
Grayson County
Texas
Jake J. Loy
Said County
Chessteen W. Pope
Man Builds Own Tomb Beside Wife in Ancient Arabic Style
Dr. Robert A Woods, 74, a Pittsburgh physician, has supervised construction of his tomb and funeral plans. He wrote his epitaph and chose his casket, to be placed next to his wife who died in 1935. The granite tomb weighs seventeen tons, features bronze medallions, and reflects his wish to be buried with no close relatives.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Andrew Woods
Woods
Egypt
Shaw's Jewelry agrees to change advertising wording
The Federal Trade Commission announced Shaw's Jewelry Company of Dallas has stipu lated to discontinue unfair trade representations in interstate sales. It will stop using yellow gold to describe watch cases not wholly made of gold and require conspicuous wording to reveal non gold content. The word certified will not be used in this context.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commission
Shaw's Jewelry Company
Dallas
Shaw's
Commission
Fragmentary regulatory quote on uncertified diamonds
A terse fragment notes a firm describes diamonds as not certified by a governmental agency, scientific bureau, or other responsible body charged with certification duties. The text hints at compliance or labeling concerns without providing context or outcomes.
Sausages in Germany Get New Skin
Berlin reports that Germany will replace sausage skins with transparent wrapping under Hitler’s four year plan for self sufficiency. Der Angriff claims the move saves 40,000,000 marks yearly in imports and prevents pork shortages though hot dogs and Bavaria’s fried sausages resist the change.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
der Angriff
Bavaria
Canned Rattlesnake Becomes Floridian Trade Sensation
In Arcadia Florida the Floridian Products Corp under George K End reports a 20 percent sales jump for canned rattlesnake meat. The firm, likely unique, began from experiments with rattlers and found the meat tasty. Demand grew after a convention tasting and newspaper coverage.
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Floridian Products Corporation
Corporation
Arcadia
Florida
George K. End
Wall Street Journal
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the Sun
T. W. Ayres & Son
Stewright
W. J. Barbee
Tom Barbee
D. Henderson
Betty Nell Yeager
Remington
Floyd Bassett
Elgin
George Brown
Brown's
R. D. Ford
Ray
Fordson Tractor
Chevrolet
Manning, Clark & Meador
R. K. McLarry
Sherman Nursery Company
Whitewright, al
Shaw’s
Manning, Clark & Meador Furniture
Farmalls — Hardware
The
Dallas News
Associated Press
News
Washington, Austin
Fort Worth
East Texas
John Knott
Post Office
Oklahoma
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