Legislature Tackles Delinquent Tax Reform And New Fees
Austin lawmakers debate instalment payments for back taxes with a six payments per year option. The bill charges simple 6 percent interest on unpaid portions and focuses on counties. Other measures seek tax hikes on oil gas and sulphur and a transactions tax pushed by Rep Kersey with Gov. O Daniel's support.
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Kersey
Bridgeport
O’daniel
Revenue and Tax Committee
Hartzog
The Coldest Winter on Record Across Europe and U.S. Growth
The piece notes the record coldest winter in 1709 with frost reaching three yards and seas freezing around Europe. It also states the United States population rose 75 percent over the past forty years.
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Europe
Adriatic
Mediterranean
The
United States
Ed's Army Induction At Fort Sam Houston
Ed faces induction at a Fort Sam Houston reception center where tests and interviews determine his best role. The article notes efficient processing, modern kitchens feeding 1,100, and a shift from old ideas to disciplined training focusing on self care and welfare.
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Army
Uncle Sam
Fort Sam Houston
Kaufman Herald
Kansas State Football Player Drafted After Paper Mention
George Snyder a 22 year old Kansas State College football player from Junction City Kansas received a phone call at home revealing his name appeared in the paper and that he had been drafted in a shorthand notice of national draft activity.
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Manhattan
Kan
George Snyder
Junction City
Gene
New York Gazette Publishes Its First Issue in 1725
The Gazette of New York City released its inaugural issue in 1725 marking the newspaper’s start in the colonial era. This milestone highlights early American journalism and press presence in New York.
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New York City
The
Gazette
Learn to Like Simpler Things for Calm Living
A Rising Star Record meditation urges cultivating calmness and self possession by choosing simple pleasures. It highlights enjoying reading, conversation, music, plain food and service, nature, work, family, gardening, carpentry, and simple living to resist being owned by possessions or others opinions.
Attorneys Appointed to Defend Louis Koll in Slaying Case
Judge Tom Suggs named Roy Baker and Joe Cox Jr. as defense attorneys for Louis H. Koll in a February trial over the December 26 shotgun slaying of Miss Geraldine Graham, with an assault to murder charge tied to the wounded escort. A 125‑member special venue will be drawn February 10 for service by registered mail.
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Justin Carlisle
Sherman
Kell
Louis Woosley
Fannin County
Ralph Elliott
Turner Fowler
Charles Acker
George Robertson
Lamar County
Highest State Salary Tops $17 500 for UT President Rainey
The state’s top earner is Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Texas, at $17,500 annually. Governor W. Lee O'Daniel follows with $12,000, while Dr. Alton J. Burdine and Attorney General G. C. Mann share $10,000. Coach D. X. Bible earns $15,000 funded by athletics.
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W. Lee O’daniel
State Departments
Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
O'Daniel
Alton J. Burdine
G. C. Mann
D. X. Bible
University
Black Draught Vegetable Laxative Points to Three Benefits
This advertisement highlights a vegetable laxative named Black Draught. It promises three benefits when directions are followed: punctual, thorough, and gentle relief. It claims an intestinal tonic effect to tone lazy bowel muscles and notes economical pricing of 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents.
Hints For The Housewife Tips From The Kitchen Desk
A collection of kitchen tips covers roasting apples with lamb or veal and flavoring tips. It notes adding extracts after cooking, opening oven doors briefly to vent humidity, orange juice as a vinegar substitute, selecting thin-skinned oranges, mending gloves with a thimble, paraffin coating for cheese, pudding with fruit cake sauce, removing meat wrappings before refrigerating, weekly broom baths, greasing cups for syrup, a window box of herbs, lemon in brown sugar storage, polishing silver and glass, reviving frozen houseplants by gradual thawing in a near freezing closet.
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Yeager’s Service Station
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Cbs
Boy Scouts
All America
Roosevelt
Walter W. Head
James E. West
Boy Scouts of America
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MBS
First National Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Roy Baker
Joe Cox
Louis Koll
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
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