Roosevelt Seeks Federal Aid to Help Farm Tenants
President Roosevelt urged Congress to launch a nationwide, federally led program to aid farm tenants and owners. He backed farm land purchases, retirement of poor land, tenant loans, windfall taxes on quick land sales, better leasing laws, housing for itinerant workers, and a new farm security administration to manage land and loans. The plan aims to boost ownership chances, curb tenancy, and stabilize rural livelihoods.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Bureau
Farm Security Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Security Corporation
Jones
Dem
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Bankhead
Alabama
House
Wallace
Bankhead- Jones
United States
Closed Neal Wilson beer parlor allowed to reopen
Sherman brief notes the Neal Wilson beer parlor at 721 West Houston, closed by an injunction from criminal district attorney R. C. Slagle Jr., was permitted to reopen after posting a $1,000 bond. The bar must observe liquor laws. Slagle has filed two injunctions in his drive to close offensive beer parlors and roadhouses.
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Sherman
Neal Wilson
West
Houston
R. C. Slagle Jr
Slagle
Highway Survey Seeks Car Owner Information Countywide
Grayson County car owners are asked to aid a State Federal Highway Planning Survey for future road programs. Cards mailed at 1937 registration time request basic data, distributed at the Tax Collector's Office with no postage. The effort aims to equitably distribute road taxes and inform a statewide plan by counts of passenger autos, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, and multi-vehicle owners.
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Grayson County
Federal Highway Planning Survey
Collier Yeary
Texas Highway Department
United States Bureau of Public Roads
11 O Clock Curfew Clash In New York Court
A horse and buggy father clashed with Judge Mark Rudrich over curfew rules for his 19 year old daughter Margaret. The magistrate urged modern views and dismissed the disorderly conduct charge, telling the father to keep his boyfriend away if he objected. The pair left court together.
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New York
Joseph Muntyou
Mark Rudrich
Margaret
Rudrich
Land Bank Farm Sales at New High
The 1936 year saw a record high in Federal Land Banks farm property sales. Twelve banks sold over 15,000 properties for 35.2 million dollars, up from 9,700 farms for about 28.1 million in 1935, with a profit near 1 percent. About 75 percent of buyers were farm operators, reflecting a shift toward farmer purchasers in recent years.
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Washington
Federal Land Banks
W. S. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Land Bank
Mr. Myers
Furniture Made of Cattle Horns Draws Interest
Wellfleet, Mass. A living room suite of eleven pieces crafted entirely from cattle horns draws attention in Mrs. David Mitchell’s home. Made by her late father Alfred D. Sampson, inspired by a Worcester show window horn leg chair once presented to John L. Sullivan. The set includes a sofa table hatrack lamp stand bookcase candlesticks a piano stool and several chairs with horns joined by brass bands and screws.
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Wellfleet
Mass
David Mitchell
Alfred D. Sampson
Worcester
John L. Sullivan
New England
Sampson
Dust storms shape plains housewives in plains section
Garden City Kansas reports on three types of dust bowl housewives facing multi day storms. Veterans wait storms out, the conscientious clean daily, and the tenderfoot furiously brooming. They seal cracks with tape, choose window opening by night or day to cope with dust and keep kids safe.
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Garden City
Kan
Martha
Tenderfoot
Paris Presbytery Meeting On Repairs And Installation
A called meeting of Paris Presbytery was held at 3 p m Tuesday at the local Presbyterian Church. The purpose was to grant building aid for repair of the Pottsboro Presbyterian Church and to receive and arrange for the installation of Rev H C Akers as new pastor of the Main Street Presbyterian Church of Honey Grove.
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Paris
Pottsboro Presbyterian Church
H. C. Akers
Main Street Presbyterian Church
Honey Grove
Love On the Run at Palace Theatre Tonight and Friday
Feature attraction at the Palace theatre tonight and Friday is Love On the Run with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. Wheeler & Woosley in Mummy Boys Saturday. Monday preview includes Shirley Temple in Little Miss Marker. Tuesday and Wednesday Patsy Kelly Charlie Chase and Pert Keton in Kelly the Second. Thursday and Friday next week Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McRea in Banjo on My Knee.
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Palace Theatre
Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
Wheeler & Woosley
Shirley Temple
Miss Marker
Patsy Kelly
Charlie Chase
Pert Keton
Kelly
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McRea
Tenancy program to provide care for lazy farmers
The president's tenancy commission proposes health care for shiftless farmers as part of rural reform. It argues laziness stems from low vitality and mental habits, noting many farm families suffer from diseases malnutrition and morbidity. The report urges funds under the social security act to serve health needs in rural tenancy areas.
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Washington
Anderson resigns as commission head in Texas
R. B. Anderson resigned Tuesday as chairman director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission to become an attorney for W. T. Waggoner properties at Vernon. Orville S. Carperton, acting pension director, was appointed to succeed him. Acting Gov. Walter F. Woodus announced the change effective immediately. Both Woodus and Gov. James V. Allred signed the message to the Senate.
Growth of body parts continues past age forty says Smithsonian
Washington. Dr. Alex Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution challenges the belief that human growth stops around 24, citing measurements across American Indians, white Americans and Europeans. He notes legs and trunk grow slightly into adult life, hands and feet enlarge, and chest breadth persists into the fourth or even sixth decades, with diet, work and disease shaping patterns.
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Washington
Alex Hrdlicka
Smithsonian Institution
Hrdlicka
Horse Kicks Ear Off Farmer After Feeding Routine
Brazil Indiana report: Rolla E Barnhart, a farmer, lost his left ear when Napoleon the horse bit it off and ate his cap after the farmer fed other animals first following an eight year habit of feeding Napoleon last. No further injuries reported.
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Brazil
Ind
Rolla E. Barnhart
Rolla
Napoleon
Army Recruiting Station Reopened in Denison
A United States army recruiting station has been reopened on the second floor of the federal building in Denison. Lawrence W. Bobb is the recruiting sergeant in charge.
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Denison
United States Army
Federal
Lawrence W. Bobb
RATTLESNAKE DELIVERS TALE TO FISH STORY CLUB
Washington observed Charles E Jackson, head of the Hook Line and Sinker Club, collecting tall tales from anglers nationwide. Letters describe a rattlesnake swallowing a grasshopper then reappearing with another grasshopper, and a Montana rainbow trout so large it frightened others away. Members invite more fish stories.
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Washington
Charles E. Jackson
Hook, Line and Sinker Club
Jackson
Bureau of Fisheries
Charles E. Bow
Casper
Wyo
Powder River
Ben
H. A. Tobin
Helena
Mont
Blackfoot
Tobin
Funeral for Mrs. Mary Higginbotham Reeves at Whitewright
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p m Monday at the Baptist Church for Mrs. Mary Higginbotham Reeves wife of Cull Reeves with Rev G B Bradshaw and others officiating. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery under R R Waldo's direction. She died Sunday night after a yearlong illness. She was born December 19 1895 at Howe and married Sept 23 1920, living in Whitewright since then. Survived by her husband a son Wallace Reeves three sisters and four brothers. A tribute by Rev J L Truett described her as a noble girl a loving wife mother and faithful friend. The service included a reading of the tribute and a final prayer for the family.
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Mary Higginbotham Reeves
Cull Reeves
Baptist Church
G. B. Bradshaw
Joe M. Connally
Methodist Church
B. Wrenn Webb
Presbyterian Church
J. L. Truett
Bradshaw
Oak Hill Cemetery
R. R. Waldo
E. A. Douglas
Robert Holland
W. L. Gordon
Clay Horton
Clyde Craig
Robert Sears
Reeves
Howe
C. L. Higginbotham
Whitewright
The
Wallace Reeves
Jack Reeves
Dallas
Jeff Sutherland
Sherman
Grover Stateville
R. R. Higginbotham
Longview
W. W. Higginbotham
van Alstyne
Eldon Sewell
Ethel Conger
H. L. Haley
Benton Davis
Raymond Mode
Vernon Henderson
Mary Hughett
John Gee
James Ferguson
Edna Fleming
Noan Stateville
Leonard
Holmes Connelly
Trenton
Mary
Funeral services for Marvin Dillon in Kansas City
Marvin Dillon died in Kansas City, Missouri, last Thursday night. Born March 18, 1900, in Kentucky, he lived in Whitewright from 1910, moved to Sherman in 1921, married Myra Martin in 1924, and settled in Kansas City in 1929. He was a Methodist and is survived by his wife, a son J. D. Dillon, two brothers E. K. Dillon and Claud Dillon, and a sister Mrs. Bob Bane.
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Marvin Dillon
Kansas City
Mr. Dillon
Kentucky
Whitewright
A. J. Dillon
Sherman
Myra Martin
Methodist Church
J. D. Dillon
E. K. Dillon
Claud Dillon
Bob Bane
Vernon
Insane Sterilization Bill Introduced in Texas House
Rep. Conde Hoskins of Gonzales introduced a bill to allow sterilization of state inmates who are insane habitual criminals or moral degenerates in Austin. Similar measures have failed in prior sessions.
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Austin
Conde Hoskins
Gonzales
Tough Time Ahead For Drunk Drivers Under House Bill
Austin House approves a Criminal Jurisprudence Committee bill to convict drivers under intoxication more easily. It prohibits driving while intoxicated or under any liquor influence, aiming to curb drunken driving with penalties of up to two years in penitentiary or five to ninety days in jail plus a $50 to $500 fine.
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Austin
House
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
Salary Bill Rush Through As Acting Governor Signs
The Senate approved a House bill boosting District Judge salaries from 4000 to 5000 a year by 23 to 5 in the Senate and 115 to 11 in the House. Acting Gov. Walter F. Woodul signed, making the increase effective immediately. The move, aimed before Gov Allred’s return, adds 128000 annually to judiciary costs for 128 judges.
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Austin
Senate
House
Walter F. Woodul
George Howard
Woodal
Allred
Bill to Guard Jobs of Old Men in Texas
A bill introduced by Senator Westerfeld in Austin would shield aged employees from discrimination in favor of youth. The measure cites long-serving workers being discharged for younger staff and shifts the burden of support to the State. Violators could have their charters canceled, or face fines up to 500 dollars and a year in jail.
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Austin
Texas
Westerfeld
Dolls Wearing Whiskers Are To Be Shown
Philadelphia reports that dolls wearing whiskers will tour the United States, modeled after the plain dress of Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonites Amish and brethren folk. Mrs Pollack of York spent months researching authentic costumes. Professors and students use the dolls as historical references.
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Philadelphia
Maurie Pollack
York
Pennsylvania
United States
Pollack
Widow Cremates Self on Husband's Funeral Pyre
A Brahmin widow in Lucknow set herself on fire on her husband’s funeral pyre in a rite of sutee witnessed by a large crowd near Agra. The self immolation occurred before police arrived. several arrests were made.
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Self
Hubby
Lucknow
India
Agra
What’s the Name of This Swinging Jazz Number
A jazz orchestra plays a lively swing tune as listeners wonder the title. One quip suggests the number might be titled Revenge on the Public, reflecting playful misnaming in a crowded venue.
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Jazz Orchestra
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