Texas Counties Lead Ginning Totals in 1937 Cotton Crop
Washington D C. The Commerce Department reports total ginned bales before January 16, 1938 reached 4 825 213 up from 2 808 365 a year earlier. Lubbock County topped gains at 149 397 bales followed by Lynn Dawson Ellis and others with double digit increases across multiple counties.
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Washington, D. C
Texas
Department of Commerce
Lubbock County
Lynn County
Dawson
Ellis
Lamb
Nueces
Collin
Crosby
San Patricio
Hunt
Copper houses to be introduced to homebuilders
Copper houses will be introduced to the homebuilding industry by Spencer Penrose of Colorado Springs. Kennecott Copper Company will supply Utah copper for the first two prefab cottages to be erected early this year. The houses will cost about the same as other materials and can be built in 60 hours with copper on roofs walls and fittings making the dwellings lightning proof.
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Colorado Springs
Spencer Penrose
Kennecott Copper Company
New York
Utah Copper
Milton J. Strang
Farmer Sells Hen Eggs With Colored Yolks At Easter
Farmer George Black of Arcola NL begins taking orders for eggs with colored yolks. Two hens on a special diet can produce yolks in various shades within ten days. He says taste is unchanged and eggs are safe to eat. Grass green is in stock now with plans to expand before Easter.
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Arcola
George Black
Black
New World of Industrial Miracles Seen in Labs
Science editor David Dietz argues laboratories in universities, foundations, and industry fuel a coming era of progress. He cites diesel trains, flying clipper ships, taller skyscrapers, and faster cars as signs of a decade of growth powered by research. Stainless steel symbolizes this shift and broad industrial gains create jobs and better living.
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New York
David Dietz
Scripps-Howard
Mr. Dietz
Orient
America
Cat awarded medal for saving two women from gas
Skippy the black and white tomcat earned a bronze medal for saving Mrs. Anna Augustine and Mrs. Mary Luppert from gas from a stove. The cat alerted them by meowing and clawing at their skirts, allowing one woman to summon help after losing consciousness. The award came from Dr. W A Young of the Anti Cruelty Society for the American Humane Association.
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Chicago
Skippy
Anna Augustine
Mary Suppert
Sherman’s Law Regulating Big Trucks Upheld
The Fifth Court of Civil Appeals in Sherman Texas upheld an ordinance limiting truck weights to 7,000 pounds and 600 pounds per inch of width. The ruling affirms the Grayson County district court’s dissolution of a temporary restraining order in Yellow Cab Transit Company vs. H G Tuck et al. A $200 fine is provided.
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Dallas
Fifth Court of Civil Appeals
Sherman
Texas
Joel Bond
Grayson County District Court
Yellow Cab Transit Company
Record of Land Commission bids scrutiny and alleged conflicts
Senate committee hearings reveal a bidder group from Burkburnett and Oklahoma City securing low lease prices with oil company arrangements. An insider from the Land Office joined the bidders then returned, tied to a $100000 oil deal. Some leases show no drilling despite large cash offers and mixed royalty terms.
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Senate Investigating Committee
Land Department
Burkburnett
Oklahoma City
Texas
Dawson
Senate
Hens and Cows Net $550 at Savoy in 1937 profit
C B Harper of Savoy reports from 125 Leghorn hens and 3 cows he netted $550 in 1937. Milk and cream sales averaged $30 monthly, egg sales totaled $200. He says feed was mostly homegrown, with corn, maize, oats, cottonseed and hay, and he has sold mule colts as replacement.
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SAVOY
C. B. Harper
Harper
Farmer Replies On Cows Feed In Silly Exchange
A farmer appears before a milk inspection board where a man in shell-rimmed glasses asks about galactagogues. The farmer explains the cows are fed hay and corn with vegetable origin sustenance rich in chlorophyll and abundant in graceful qualities.
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Milk Inspection Board
Shellrim
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