Committee Kills Bill to Reduce Beer Licenses in Texas
The Texas House Liquor Committee rejected a Bridgers bill to cap beer licenses at one per 1,000 people, 19 to 2, killing the measure. Other actions included deaths, resolutions of regret for Pope Pius XI, and new Senate bills on education, flood control, and various regulatory measures.
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Austin
House Liquor Committee
W. R. Bridgers
el Paso
Bridgers
Texas Breweries
House
Leland Johnson
Waxahachie
T. M. Scott
Austin State School For the Deaf
Pope Pius XI
U. S
Mexico
Congress
Texas
Mainor Westbrop
Fairdale
Senate
State Board of Education
Permanent School Fund
Last Whooping Cranes in World Halted by Hunters
Only about thirty of the magnificent birds remain in the world. The federal government now criminalizes their killing to prevent extinction. A migratory wildfowl sanctuary on Blackjack Peninsula shields remaining cranes near Rockport and Tivoli, Texas, where observer James Q. Stevenson notes their wild, wary presence.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Texas Gulf Coast
Texas
United States
Blackjack Peninsula
Rockport
Tivoli
James Q. Stevenson
Earth
Dafoe on infantile paralysis theory and spread patterns
The author presents a theory that most children experience some form of infantile paralysis and that mild cases may immunize against more severe attacks. He notes autumn timing, regional bursts, and equal gender impact, while dismissing bird migration and fall air as primary causes. Multiple factors tested yielded no decisive explanation.
State highway spending and taxation provisions proposed
The measure discusses using federal matching funds on secondary roads and non highway system projects. It proposes increasing the sulfur tax from $1.03 to $2 per ton. It calls for certificates before exempting any voters and exempts public fairs from the 20 percent tax on prize contests. It also seeks to prohibit public sports exhibitions by state prisoners.
Super Power Off For WLW March 1
The Federal Communications Commission ordered WLW Cincinnati to stop using its 50 kilowatt power at 2 a m March 1. The agency said 500 kilowatts are not proven necessary for the station’s experiments, while experimental station W8XO may operate to 500 kilowatts but cannot carry advertising. Carlsbad Caverns weather notes show a year round 50 degree Fahrenheit temperature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Federal Communications Commission
WLW
Cincinnati
Crosley Corporation
Shelterbelt Trees Stretch Across Plains in Farm Aid Effort
Federal shelterbelt project has planted 85,000,000 trees over 106000 acres across six states from the Dakotas to Texas. The windbreak now covers 685 miles in North Dakota to 1,667 in Texas, serving thousands of farms with high survival rates, aiding crops and soil stability amid the plains droughts.
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Uncle Sam
Great Plains
H. E. Curtis
Mangum
Okla
Dakotas
Texas
E. W. Tinker
Forest Service
Casey
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
North Dakota
South Dakota
Bullet From Locked Trunk Kills Baggageman
At the Union Railroad Station last night a baggageman, Hugh Currie aged 60, was killed when a pistol packed in a locked trunk discharged. The .22 caliber bullet struck him in the eye after passing through the trunk. owner Daniel C. Power of Lafayette Indiana said he did not know the pistol was loaded.
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Chicago
Union
Hugh Currie
Daniel C. Power
Lafayette
Positive Control Of Typhoid Fever By Vaccination
Dr George W Cox state health officer cites reduced typhoid deaths since 1900 and urges vaccination. In Texas urban areas improved water, sewage and milk purification cut typhoid, while rural areas still face risk from contaminated water and flies. He recommends concrete well tops, watertight casings, fly-tight privies, proper cisterns, and vaccination by family doctors as economical and safe protection before typhoid season.
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Austin
Geo. W. Cox
United States
Texas
Negro School Honor Roll for Third Six Weeks
The honor roll for the third six weeks at the negro school lists students by grade, including Frank Andrews and Clara Freeman in first grade, Hubert Henderson in second, Lester Conley in third, J Frank Robbins in fourth, Ruth Elmer Brown in fifth, Eula C Brown in sixth, and J C Conley in seventh, among others. The notice mentions the school principal M D Boyd and additional ad copy about carbon paper and ribbons for sale at Sun office.
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M. D. Boyd
Frank Andrews
Clara Freeman
Luella Banks
Willie Henderson Jr
Annie Laura Lydia
Hubert Henderson
Edith Patterson
Annie R. Williams
Lester Conley
Dorotha Williams
Cathron Freeman
J. Frank Robbins
Collene Hamilton
Bellater Spencer
William Patterson
Ruth Elmer Brown
Hazel Sp
Want Ads Enterprising Sherman Area Classifieds
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Call Haile
M. Johnson
H. A. James
Whitewright Hatchery
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Recluse Leaves $5,000,000 Estate
Los Angeles man Michael F. O'Dea lived forty years in quiet anonymity. His death at 90 revealed a $5 million estate and a global hunt for legitimate heirs. An estate papers search spans the United States, Canada, and Ireland.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Michael F. O'Dea
O'Dea
United States
Canada
Ireland
Jersey City Bank Closes as FDIC Pays 23 Million
The New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Co. failed to open and the FDIC announced a pay-off of about 23 million dollars for more than 39,000 depositors. Nearly all are fully insured at the 5000 dollar per person limit. The board voted to place the bank in liquidation under State Banking Commissioner Louis Reilly.
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Jersey City
N. J
New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Co
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC
Leo T. Crowley
Banks’ Board of Directors
Louis Reilly
Beggar and Lady Exchange Humorous One Eye Jibe
A brief old time exchange features a blind man begging for a dime and a lady retorting with a quip about one eye. The beggar then requests a nickel, turning the exchange into a humorous street vignette.
Mayor Kane Calls Woburn Taxpayers to Stage Strike
Mayor William E. Kane of Woburn urged taxpayers to stage a sit down strike to pressure budget cuts. He warned that taxes paid into the treasury keep unnecessary personnel on the payroll and noted the city’s $47 per $1,000 tax rate. He previously joked about a lion’s cage but said it was only an attention grab.
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Boston
William E. Kane
Woburn
Boston Real Estate Owners and Tenants League
CCC Cotton Loans Total 193.8 Million Dollars
The Commodity Credit Corporation reported a loan total of 193 802 145 dollars on 4 228 033 bales of cotton. State totals include Arizona 59 895 California 156 596 New Mexico 38 479 Oklahoma 182 119 and Texas 1 206 542.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Man Objects To Whisky Sale Charge In Court
In Spartanburg South Carolina a judge questioned a Black man after a large whisky haul at his home. The man admitted swapping some liquor for money but denied selling it, insisting he had not been selling whisky. Authorities had seized the liquor claiming it was for sale.
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Spartanburg, S. C
Arnold R. Merchant
Warned Custer by White Horse on mass grave warning
Cherokee elder White Horse says he warned General Custer in 1876 about a doomed attack at the Little Big Horn battlefield. Copeland, 93, recounts meeting Custer and Sitting Bull and predicts the fate of Custer’s 600 men against 20,000 warriors, noting Custer ignored the warning and all his troops were killed.
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George A. Custer
Charles Copeland
Copeland
White Horse
Colorado Springs
Idaho
Battlefield
Cus
Ter
Sitting Bull
Custer
West Point
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State Board of Water Engineers
L. J. Sulak
la Grange
Colorado River
Househopper
Board of Control and Highway Commission
Vocational Rehabilitation Service
Texas Commission On Interstate
Council of State Governments
Rexall
Allan Roy Dafoe
Super Power
Carlsbad Caverns
N. M
Chester
Ed Casey
Mitchell
S. D
Pacific Northwest
Typewriter
Sun Office
M. J. Long
J. W. Henry
Dallas
Manton Fain
W. Davis
CCC
Sinclair Opaline
Texaco
Motor Oil
Jack Farley
Stafford
Versal
Markwell
Whitewright
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