Wage Averages By Regions For Farm Workers Reported
National figures show farm workers averaged $165 a month on Jan 1 with Oregon up to $157 from $149 last year. Pacific coast states held $164 monthly. New England paid $125. South Atlantic and several southern states $63. Washington rose due to daily pay, from $6.30 to $7.20 with board and $8.40 to $9.30 without. Other local details include subscription rates for a Texas paper and county notes.
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Oregon
Pacific Coast
New England
South Atlantic
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Washington
Cracks At The Crowd And The Refund Swindle
A reflective piece on returning unsatisfactory goods and facing merchants. It contrasts honest refunds with perceived scorn from clerks, then muses on virtue amid adversity and quotes Seneca Carlyle and others on hardship, prosperity, and faith. The tone weighs moral judgments and social perception.
Gems of Thought Adversity Reveals Self in Freedom From Flattery
A quotation discusses how adversity reveals true character when a person is free from flatterers. It notes prosperity brings desirable things, but the value of adversity lies in honest self knowledge and growth.
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Johnson
Only Good Farmers Get Land in England Says Drinkall
John Drinkall of Lancashire told Austin business leaders that Britain has restricted land use to productive farmers since 1939. He cited a national policy of moving slack farmers to other jobs and quoted a British maxim about prudent farming.
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Austin
America
John Drinkall
Lancashire
Britain
Drinkall
Texas Chemurghc Council
Washington Farm Wages Reach Peak at $167 Monthly
Washington farm workers earned an average of $167 a month on the first of the month, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports, up $10 from a year ago and the highest in the country. California previously topped the year-ago figure at $166.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
California
Bigamist with Nineteenth-Cent Coin Finances Cited
A 23 year old accused of marrying eight women in five years was found with 19c. The San Angelo Standard Times notes that with current prices and any year’s wives, possessing only 19c after eight marriages marks not mere bigamy but financial genius.
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San Angelo
Standard Times
Cautionary Warning on Hot Water Hazards in Home
A warning advises never leaving buckets pans or tubs of scalding water on the floor where children may stumble. The caution targets households with grandchildren and multiple step great grandchildren to prevent burns and injuries.
Funeral services for W T Blacknall in Trenton
W T Blacknall 82 died at Allen Memorial Hospital Bonham after a two week illness. Funeral held at Indian Creek Baptist Church Trenton with Rev Weldon Drake, burial in Indian Creek Cemetery. Born Tennessee March 24 1867, survived by a step son C G May Whitewright and three steps.
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Trenton
W. T. Blacknall
Allen Memorial Hospital
Bonham
Indian Creek Baptist Church
Weldon R. Drake
Whitewright
J. A. Henderson
Sherman
E. B. Jackson
E. R. McHone
Walter Petty
Argus Woodruff
Ed Riley
H. E. Kirkpatrick
C. T. Jones
Indian Creek
Earnheart Funeral Home
Mr. Blackwall
Tennessee
Fannie May
C. G. May
William Franklin McDowell
First Baptist Church
Edwin Badgett
Elbert Bennett
Roby Childress
Claude Smith
Edgar Ayres
Clay Horton
Mt. Carmel
Wolfe City
Glen Earnheart
McDowell
North Carolina
John McDowell
Panola Giles
Spartenberg
S. C
I. W. Rogers
Leonard
Joe Skinner
Judd McDowell
Los Angeles
Calif
J. E. McDowell
D. E. McDowell
Hollis
Death of Charles F. Reese minister in Yuma Arizona
Mrs. E C Watson of Whitewright learns of the death of her brother Charles F Reese a Church of Christ minister who died suddenly during Lord's Day worship in Garfield Street Church Yuma Arizona He served as a minister for 53 years born February 14 1874 near Center Point Arkansas and began preaching at age twenty Survived by his wife several children two brothers and five sisters
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E. C. Watson
Whitewright
Charles F. Reese
Church of Christ
Yuma
Arizona
Garfield Street
Center Point
Ark
Used Electric Refrigerator and Duncan Phyfe Table Set
Lem Tittsworth Furniture Store in Bonham Texas offers a good used electric refrigerator a Duncan Phyfe drop leaf table with chairs priced at 69 50 and General Electric blankets for 39 85 each.
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Tor
Duncan Phyfe
Eral
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J. H. Waggoner
T. Glenn Doss
Texas
Postoffice
Jim Grayson
Fannin
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Tom
Ben
Anne Molly
Seneca
Carlyle
H. Moore
E. H. Chapin
England
Bemberg
Say Lor Vaughan
William F. McDowell
Okla
Lem Tittsworth Furniture
Bonham, Texas
Fostoria
Reed & Barton
North Travis Street
Sherman, Texas
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