Top heavy education funding criticized in Texas
The Texas School Journal reports 18 million annual dollars for higher education and 38 million for public schools with 25 000 attending higher institutions and 1 300 000 school age children. The News urges the legislature to favor common schools, arguing $29 per child versus $720 for higher education fails equality. rural schools need eight months and competent teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas School Journal
Drearming
School Journal
Texas
Marshall News
Rats and the remedy for Whitewright’s rodent issue
The state health department urges housewives to starve rats by storing all food in tight containers and keeping scraps in a covered metal can. Eliminate food sources and hiding places to drive rats away, a local complaint suggests an epidemic.
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Whitewright
State Health Department
Cut Off Credit Drives Texas and Oklahoma Farmer On Foot
A Texas Oklahoma agricultural note discusses tight credit as cotton yields fall and prices stay low. Merchants and banks limit lending, anger rises among farmers, and a Tennessee tale inspires resolve to endure hardship without relying on store credit.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Old man praises merchants for refusing credit after a good harvest
The narrator recalls a farmer who, with favorable seasons, sells a fine crop and thanks local merchants in the town square for denying him credit. He says he owes nothing and has enough money to last until the next harvest, blessing the outcome as a reminder that blessings come in disguise.
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Honey Grove
No Cow No Sow No Hen Poem Line
A line recalling the famous sentiment about poverty and loss: of all sad words none are sadder than I have no cow, no sow, no hen. The quote evokes economic hardship with rural imagery and literary reference.
Editorial Sparks and Snippets Across Papers
A collage of cheeky quotes from editorials across newspapers. The items poke at politics, race, transport, and aging public figures with sharp, witty one liners and pointed observations. Notable quips reference Russia Americans ships liquor and census forecasts while mocking politicians and social trends.
Mrs Elizabeth Barnes 81 beloved local matron dies
Mrs Elizabeth Cameron Barnes aged 81 died Friday afternoon after a three week illness at her Whitewright home. She lived nearby many years, was a Baptist faithful, and hosted Grayson College students. Funeral held Saturday at the Baptist Church with Rev J H Hawkins and Rev J L Truett, interment Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Elizabeth Cameron Barnes
Whitewright
Grayson College
San Antonio
The
Baptist Church
J. H. Hawkins
J. L. Truett
Oak Hill Cemetery
West Africa Coast earns infamous nickname and danger
Special correspondent G Ward Prince reports from Ni gkerta that the west coast of Africa bears a notorious reputation rivaling Devil's Island and Botany Bay. The region's climate weakens Europeans slowly, draining vitality and memory, with death often delayed until a career ends and a minor home illness proves fatal.
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Africa
Ward Prince
Nigkerta
Devil's Island
Botany Bay
Liberia
West Africa
Obstinacy in Babies Merely Human Nature
A Chicago psychiatrist Dr. D. M. Levy explains toddler resistance is normal. Infants under six months are calm. persistence rises from six months to three years with a peak around eighteen months, more common in girls, and cooperation improves after age five.
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D. M. Levy
Chicago
Venice of China Soo Chow described as boat laden city
The article portrays Soo Chow as the true Venice of China with canals replacing streets. Small crafts carry passengers and goods while peddlers and tradesmen navigate the water in varied boats, beating gongs to attract attention. Cobblers and weavers line the shore, working at looms and benches.
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China
Venice
Soo Chow
Ancient Fundamentalism Echoes in Lunacy of Folly
A quotation from Lactantius in the fourth century mocks extreme misbelief. It asks who would think feet exceed heads and skies drop upward, and notes how some defend one error by another after a single mistake.
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Lactantius
Nicotine Content in Tobacco and Smoke Composition
Nicotine in tobacco is a colorless poisonous liquid that oxidizes to brown solids in air. It varies from two to eight percent, coarser tobacco higher, Havana cigars usually under two percent. Nicotine is not present in tobacco smoke. it splits into pyridine and collodine, with pyridine more prevalent in pipe smoke.
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Havana
Storm toll and a narrowly avoided tragedy described
A tornado victim recalls a sudden, violent storm that demolished his house and left him unscathed. He reflects on the near miss while a bystander reacts with shock and memories of other chores, including a wife’s letter to mail.
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Mr. Meeke
Samoan sports and life described in Adventure Magazine
Adventure Magazine profiles Samoans active in baseball and cricket, noting their open air fitness, devotion to weeklong village cricket matches, and religious discipline. It describes huts, pigs, cocoa and copra exports, lack of minerals, and a shift away from idolatry, with native dances and wrestling as minor sports.
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Samoa
Mr. Mills
Adventure Magazine
Daughter's High Ideas Spoil Daddy's Meals
A family recently moving to the city adopts etiquette lessons from a $1 down, $1 a week course. The father laments manners at restaurants as his daughter’s book learning upends his dining habits and he fears being treated like a child.
Cubits Across Cultures and Time
The article compares cubit lengths from Egyptian and Roman sources noting 20.64 and 17.4 inches as undisputed standards. It mentions biblical references to two cubits the cubit of man and the cubit after the first measure and Julian of Ascalon’s ratio 28 to 25. It also notes Hebrew cubits vary widely from 19 to 26 nehes.
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Egypt
Julian
Ascalon
Temple
First Piano Inventors Traced From Ancient Mono Chord
A historical note traces the piano to early stringed instruments dating to 500 B C and links the modern piano to Saintir like dulcimer precursors. It credits Bartolommeo Cristofori of Padua as the inventor who gave the instrument its current name piano e forte.
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Vythangoras
Bartolommeo Cristofori
Padua
Air holes in bulk ice cream cost millions
The Department of Commerce conference on weights and measures revealed that U S ice cream makers produce a billion quarts annually and about one fifth is air space. Selling bulk ice cream by volume rather than weight leads to an estimated 66 million dollars being paid for air holes.
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Department of Commerce
United States
Popular Science Monthly
Job More to His Liking
The box office man of a popular theater left his job and soon joined a commission house. A friend asked why the shift, and he replied that after selling the first 200 seats he faced constant arguments, while selling 2,000 bushels of potatoes today he still has good potatoes. Want any?
Piano care warning against moths during absence
Advice to hang two camphor cloth bags inside a piano to deter moths from feeding on the felt and harming the hammers. Place bags on opposite sides so they do not interfere with piano mechanism.
Mrs Margaret Ball Pioneer Resident Dies at 87
Mrs Margaret Ball aged 87 died at her home southwest of town after a two week illness from a fall that fractured a limb. Born in Kentucky she moved to Texas fifty years ago with her husband the late B P Ball who died in 1916. She was a Baptist and survived by six sons and several daughters plus sixty one grandchildren and forty one great grandchildren. The funeral was held at Rose Hill church with Rev I E Teague and others officiating.
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Margaret Ball
Ball
Kentucky
Texas
B. P. Ball
Grayson County
Baptist Church
Rose Hill
I. E. Teague
J. A. Henderson
C. Chumbley
T. L. Ball
Plainview
James Ball
Abilene
J. F
R. W
G. W. Ball
Town
A. L. Connelly
Trenton
Floyd Caylor
Hugo
Oklahoma
Albert Dunlap
Chillicothe
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Senator Borah
Republican Party
Ohio State Journal
Senate
Publishers Syndicate
Norfolk Post
California
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ma” Ferguson
Arizona
Elizabeth Barnes
the Sun
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the National Battery Station
Dan S. Dickerman
J. L. McSpedden
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