Washington Bicentennial Observance Begins Monday Night
The February 22 observance at the Grammar School auditorium marks the start of a nationwide George Washington Bicentennial celebration. Local groups including the American Legion, Rotary Club and churches join in a program of readings songs and prayers led by city officials and school choirs.
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George Washington
American Legion
Municipality
Masonic Lodge
Pastors’ Association
Music Club
Rotary Club
America
C. C. Merritt
F. M. Echols
Washington
Gladys Ray
Quilt Display At Central Christian Church
The Central Christian Church women host a quilt hooked rug and lace display at Mrs. C. P. Johnson home on Wednesday from 2 to 6 p m. The public may bring quilts rugs and tablecloths for display. A free will offering will be taken. For more information call Mrs. F. M. Echols, committee chair.
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The
Central Christian Church
C. P. Johnson
F. M. Echols
Taxpayers Meeting at Sherman Saturday
The Sun says a taxpayers mass meeting will be held in Sherman on Saturday Feb. 20 at 2 p m. The principal topic is how to attract qualified men and women to seek public office and serve efficiently for one term in the Democratic way. All Grayson County taxpayers are invited to attend and participate.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Barrett Named Texas Hoard War Leader
A. P. Barrett was appointed chairman of the state organization aiding Hoover's hoarding drive. Frank Knox, Chicago head of the national commission, said the campaign should last about 30 days and require intensive work. Barrett accepted by telegraph.
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Fort Worth
A. P. Barrett
Hoover
Frank Knox
Chicago
National Commission
Knox
Barrett
Telegraph
Advertising Is the Education of the Public Quote
A quotation defining advertising as informing the public about who you are where you are and what you offer. It notes only those with nothing to offer should avoid advertising and attributes the idea to Elbert Hubbard.
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Elbert Hubbard
Farmers' Union Pushes Gas Tax to Six Cents in Texas
The Farmers' Union of Texas urged a 2 cent gas tax increase to 6 cents total with 1.5 cents for schools 1 cent for highways and 3 cents for bond redemptions. J D Henderson led the Jefferson Hotel meeting which aimed to boost membership to 500000 by next year and discussed freight rates on cotton and homestead tax relief.
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Dallas
Farmers’ Union of Texas
Jefferson Hotel
J. D. Henderson
Munday
Texas
Galveston
Houston
Texas City
Second Grade Pupils Dismissed For Week
The district dismisses the second grade for the rest of the week after one student developed scarlet fever. A note to parents explains the precaution, cites fourteen absent students with colds, and outlines exposure timing and symptoms to watch for in the coming days.
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Grammar School
Smith
Senate Rejects Direct Federal Relief Plan
The Senate voted 48 to 35 to reject the La Follette Costigan 750 million dollar relief measure, upholding President Hoover against direct federal aid. Democrats and Republicans split, with many Democrats backing loans to states instead of gifts. Debate extended late into the night as substitutes were defeated.
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Washington
D. C
Senate
Hoover
Hoover Seeks One Million For Chicago World’s Fair
President Hoover urged Congress to appropriate 1 million dollars immediately for federal participation in the Chicago World’s Fair. The request highlights federal support for the event and accelerates funding.
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Hoover
Washington
Congress
Ivy vine forms I U insignia on Indiana University gym
An ivy vine on Indiana University's gymnasium grows into the university’s insignia I U, shaping a lasting emblem on campus. The feature highlights campus iconography and tradition tied to the historic athletic facilities.
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Indiana University
Mills Seeks Higher Taxes to Balance Budget
Secretary of the Treasury Mills proposes tax increases totaling about 377 million dollars to balance the budget, with hikes on gasoline, electricity, natural and manufactured gas, and higher corporation and surtax rates. He suggests possible sales taxes and outlines a plan that could raise around 1.24 billion, pending Ways and Means review.
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Washington
Mills
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Committee On Ways and Means
Treasury Department
Crisp
Heavy Rainfall Dampens Whitewright Area
The Whitewright region received about 4 percent inches of rain since last Saturday night. Streams overflowed their banks Tuesday afternoon after a steady Monday night rain and a heavy Tuesday morning downpour. Ground is soaked and it will take a week or more of sun to resume farm work. Much farm work occurred last week and most of the oat crop was sown.
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Whitewright
Whitewright Girl Member C I A Choir
Martha Jo Sears of Whitewright has joined the Texas State College for Women C I A choir for the spring semester. The senior majoring in public school music performs in spring recitals with tours planned to Wichita Falls Dallas and other Texas cities. She belongs to Chapparral Club and Odeon lab on campus.
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Chapparral Club
Odeon Lab
Two "Tuff" Boys Land in County Jail
Two men from Mt. Pleasant were jailed in Sherman after resisting arrest by Deputy Sheriff Burn Everheart. They had threatened defiance but agreed to cooperate after being confronted, then were taken to Sherman for investigation following the incident on the Sherman Ida road where alcohol and mischief were involved.
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Mt. Pleasant
Sherman
Burn Everheart
Mr. Everheart
Mr. Fogle
Everheart
Winchell Summoned Over Chicago Gunmen Paragraph
Broadway columnist Walter Winchell was called before a grand jury to explain a paragraph claiming Chicago gunmen arrived by plane to assist Vincent Coll in New York. The paragraph appeared Feb. 8 the day Coll was killed, alleging planes and machine guns linked to Capone era violence in the city.
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New York
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Grand Jury
Chicago
Vincent Coll
Winchell
Coll
Capone
Survey Shows Extent Farm Mortgage Debt Across Nation
A Bureau of Agricultural Economics study of 17 000 farms as of Jan 1 1931 finds 38 percent of mortgaged farms owed more than half their value. While 64 percent of all farms were debt free in 1928, debt rose in later years with regional differences.
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Washington
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Bureau of Census
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
West North Central Group of States
New England States
Treasury to Offer Manufacturers Sales Tax Bill
The Treasury plans to submit a bill to the House Ways and Means Committee Friday proposing a manufacturers sales tax. Secretary Mills said the department does not sponsor the proposal and indicated administrative features acceptable to industry would be included. He stressed maintaining heavy excise taxes on certain industries as preferable to balance the 1933 federal budget.
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Washington
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
McFarlin Gift Enables 7000 Acres To Texas A&M Loan Fund
Tulsa oilman Robert M. McFarlin and Mrs. McFarlin give 7000 acres of rich Trinity River bottom land in Kaufman Ellis and Navarro Counties to the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M for a memorial student loan fund. The two farms valued at 1 000 000 in improvements and 500 000 land value will support the loan fund with no strings attached. A special presentation and honoring program will be held at the college February 23 24.
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College Station
Trinity River
Kaufman
Ellis
Navarro Counties
Robert M. McFarlin
Tulsa
Okla
Navarro
Black Land Belt
North
Texas
McFarlin
Oklahoma
Mr. McFarlin
Waxahachie
Laymen Meet Next Tuesday Night for Whitewright Revivals
Laymen from five Whitewright churches will meet in the Presbyterian basement Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. to plan revival meetings for the near future. Plans outline revival approaches and vocal participation by pastors this year.
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Whitewright
Presbyterian Church
Rotary Club Improvised Program Covers Astronomy and Lincoln
The Rotary Club last Friday lacked a formal program. A member spoke on astronomy or relativity, then another addressed Lincoln and the Emancipator. The meeting closed with a "lost chord" song fest featuring Sweet Genevieve Sweet Adeline and My Darling Nellie Gray.
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Rotary Club
Lincoln
Genevieve
Adeline
Nellie Gray
Army officer charged in Schertz bank robbery
Second Lieut. Herbert C. Lichtenberger 28 Oklahoma City Randolph Field officer and 1926 Creighton graduate charged with holding up the State Bank at Schertz. He is held at San Antonio and to be brought to jail. County Attorney Linne seeks no bond. Charges include two counts of robbery with firearms and an assault to murder.
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Texas
Lichtenberger
Linne
George R. Dix
Boy Shoots Roll to End Idle Days for Eleven $1,000 Bills
In Los Angeles the hoarding scare driven by President Hoover's campaign led to $11,000 in circulation after a boy's target practice with a .22 rifle shot torn $1,000 bills. The notes were handed to Laswell & Co. of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange by a well dressed man believed to be a robber, but his son had fired the roll from a tobacco tin.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Hoover
Laswell & Co
Los Angeles Stock Exchange
Public Service Co Plans $100,000 Sulphur Plant in Reagan County
Public Service Co. spends 100000 to erect a plant that will extract sulphur from natural gas in the Reagan County field. Richard hosted 10000 guests daily at Westminster Hall during the Christmas season of 1398 in the city.
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Public Service Co
Reagan County
Richard
Westminster Hall
Bomb hits Shanghai firm as Sino Japanese war intensifies
In Shanghai the Hitsui Bussan Kaisha import firm was partly wrecked by a morning bomb leaving one Chinese dead. Violence spikes along a front from Chapei to Kiangwan as Japanese and Chinese forces clash amid aerial preparations and diplomatic efforts to curb the fighting.
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Shanghai
China
Hitsui Bussan Kaisha
Nelson T. Johnson
Japan
Nanking
T. V. Soong
Wellington Koo
Wu Teh-Chen
Chapei
Kiangwan
Woosung
Canton
Suffolk
Whangpoo River
Sir John
Red Cross
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wang Ching- Wei
Pukow
Wusih
Soochow
United States
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Farmers’ Union
C. I. A. Choir
O. K. Walter
A. & M. College
South Texas Bank
Tokio
Nineteenth Route Army
Chenju
Kenkichi Ugeda
Sir John Hope-Simpson
National Flood Relief Commission
League of Nations
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