Local History Club Meets as Community Notes Fill Page
1904 History Club gathering at Mrs. J. B. Dickson described. Bonham guest Miss Liza Mae Love visits Dr. R. May. District 42 trustees plan to sell East Whitewright school building by Feb 6. Fat cattle shipped to Kansas City. Kim and Jim Henry aboard. Julian Montgomery recovering from Illinois campus accident. Deaths of William J. Cox and J. L. Bradford reported. New Leonard lumber yard planned. E. H. Medlin buys local blacksmith and horseshoeing shop. Property purchases include Sam Armstrong residence and Olivia M. Whedbee buys 141 3/4 acres. Post office fixtures installed in Holcomb building. Water outage noted after deep freeze. George Hansard visits Sherman for daughter Irene's recovery.
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J. B. Dickson
Liza Mae Love
Bonham
W. F. Sanders
W. R. Ford
W. J. Martin
East Whitewrght
Jess Graves
Kansas City
Kim
Jim Henry
The
Sun
Julian Montgomery
University of Illinois
William J. Cox
W. M. Cox
France
J. L. Bradford
Whitewright
Colorado Springs
Colo
L. LaRoe & Co
Leonard Soon
E. H. Medlin
Celeste
W. H. Stedham
J. H. Hollingsworth
J. A. Mauk
Sam Armstrong
East Main Street
Fitz Bryant
Albert Jackson
New York City
Holcomb
High Salaried Ball Players Get Jobless Benefits
In Missouri ten professional baseball players including major leaguers collect unemployment insurance. Several from St. Louis and Kansas City rosters are on the rolls. a Browns executive confirms some players earning 8,000 to 9,000 yearly are among them. Benefits pay up to 15 dollars weekly for 12 weeks, with job offers mandatory if found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
St. Louis American League
Kansas City American Association
St. Louis Browns
William O. DeWitt
Browns
DeWitt
E. C. Crow
State Unemployment Compensation Commission
Census Redistricting Looms Over Texas Legislature
The 1940 census will force redistricting debates in Texas with large population disparities among senatorial districts. Existing brackets for local laws may require revision as lawmakers adjust to updated counts, potentially altering hundreds of statutes and triggering a renewal of legislative maps.
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Austin
Texas
Rogers Kelley
Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Texas Oil
Harold Beck
Texarkana
H. L. Winfield
Fort Stockton
Newspapers of U S Raise 305525 for Finland Aid
New York. Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, announced that newspapers across the nation have raised 305 525 dollars to aid the destitute in Finland. He credited press cooperation with enabling an almost overnight start to meet the emergency the fund was created to address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
Finland
Public Speakers Learn of Faults and Lancaster Accent Favored
A survey of 500 people in 59 occupations lists top speaker faults including mumbling long windedness and vague facts. Studies by Walter H Wilke and Joseph Snyder suggest Lancaster Pennsylvania speech is closest to the general American dialect and preferred by listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Sylvester Touscaint
Colorado State Teachers College of Education
National Association of Teachers of Speech
Walter H. Wilke
Joseph Snyder
New York University
Boston
Lancaster
Snyder
New Jersey
Pacific Coast
Can
Man Seeks Steady Work In Rochester Letter Describes Suitor
A Syracuse youth 33 years old 180 pounds six feet tall with medium complexion good character and reference and pleasing personality writes to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle seeking steady employment. He lists being an experienced salesman and chauffeur and currently unemployed while hoping for marriage money and a wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
Syracuse
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
WPA 87 Percent Dropped From Rolls Still Unemployed
Washington report shows 87 percent of 775000 dropped from WPA last summer remained jobless in November. Col F C Harrington told a House subcommittee that only 23250 of the dismissed under the 18 month clause had found private industry work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
WPA
Col
F. C. Harrington
House Appropriations
Also Mentioned on This Page
Olivia M. Whedbee
E. W. Savage
Hileman & Anderson
Whitewright Lumber Co
Gillett Bros
W. L. White
Mark Montgom
George Hansard
Sherman
Irene
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dallas
Oem
Hallaman
Good Housekeeping
Newspapers of
U. S
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
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