O'Daniel Dominates 1939 Texas Headlines, Texas News
Texas editors ranked Governor O'Daniel as the No 1 story of 1939 with John Nance Garner’s presidential hint and Maury Maverick’s Texas political arc close behind. Oil shutdowns, the Aggies football rise, and the Athenia rescue shaped top ten, while the Badgett quadruplets and the Coffman slaying drew national attention.
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Texas
Texas Association Press
O'Daniel
John Nance Garner
Maury Maverick
San Antonio
Eenie-Meenieminie-Mee
Athenia
Aggies
Brooks Coffman
Dallas
McDoald Observatory
O’daniel
Senate
Winzell Williams
John Garner
Washington
Texan
Maury
Garner
Maverick
Oil
Cornell
Coffman
McDonald Observatory
University of Texas
University of Chicago
Badgett Sisters
Galveston
Snyder-Colorado River
Lufkin
Renne Allred Jr
Ickes
Supreme Court
Richard Gray Gallogly
Georgia
John Henry Howland
Pipe Creek
Texarkana
Wichita Falls
Byron Nelson
Betty Jameson
One-Variety Cotton Areas Spreading Across Texas
College Station Texas A and M agronomist D T Killough reports progress in improving cotton quality through one-variety communities. Over 1,000,000 acres in 425 communities were planted to better varieties, up from 632,897 acres in 1938 across 213 communities. The lint-improvement drive is backed by the experiment station system extension service East Texas Chamber of Commerce Bureau of Plant Industry and State-Wide Cotton Committee.
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College Station
D. T. Killough
Texas A. & M. College Agronomist
Texas
Killough
Experiment Station System
Extension Service
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Bureau of Plant Industry
Division of Vocational Agricultural Education
Cotton Committee
Campaign Song Hails Cactus Jack from Texas
A historical campaign ballad extols John Nance Garner, nicknamed Cactus Jack, praising his Texan roots from Amarillo to San Antonio and him riding toward the White House with bold lines about leadership and anti fraud claims. The verse celebrates his persona and campaign zeal.
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Cactus Jack
White House
Texas
Amarillo
San Antone
Jack
Dallas
John Nance Garner
Rex Lampman
Jack Foy
Year of Screwy Events 1939 Nominated in Curio Chronicle
A 1939 quirks roundup lists ten odd happenings from across the United States including Russia’s alliance with Germany, burglars in Camden and Boston, a New Jersey man eating razor blades, and a Boston chase around a block. Newton Massachusetts is named the screwy town of the year with a slaughtering inspector despite the law, plus other oddities and inventions of the year.
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New York
Russia
Germany
Colorado
Kansas City
Camden
N. J
Boston
New Jersey
Ohio
Newton
Mass
Chicago man climbs billboard to draw moustache on ad girl
A Chicago man scales a 30 foot billboard to doodle a moustache on the advert model. In Elmira New York a man claims he can quack like Donald Duck and laugh like Charlie McCarthy simultaneously.
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Chicago
Elmira, N. Y
Donald Duck
Charlie McCarthy
Ford Sees Big Farm Opening for Youth on New Year
Detroit, Henry Ford urged that youth can find opportunity on farms as they leave school in 1939. He said energetic young people should seek work on farms to learn farming as a modern art, with a path to land ownership and participation in rising farm profits when industry demands grow.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
City and country youths urged to swap places for growth
The speaker argues that city boys should spend time on farms and farm boys in the city. He believes the city’s stimulation will sharpen country youths and the farms will gain needed traits from town youths, aiding land development.
Greenings recall flooded Venice stop during trip
After a widely discussed journey abroad the Greenings share their experience with jealous friends. A neighbor asks about Venice and Mrs. Greening doubts the visit while Mr. Greening recalls a flood delaying departure at the station.
Rupture Shield Expert to Demonstrate in Greenville
H. M. Shevnan, Chicago rupture shield expert, will attend the Washington Hotel Greenville Tuesday January 9 from 9 a m to 6 p m to demonstrate the Zoetic Shield. The method claims immediate results by closing the opening within ten days without drugs or medical treatment. Address 6441 N Richmond St Chicago for more details.
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H. M. Shevnan
Chicago
Washington Hotel
Greenville
Shevnan
Richmond ST
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