Texas Finds Three Minerals Near Uvalde During Board Survey
A State Planning Board committee reports Texas yields three minerals near Uvalde. Meerschaum, or sepiolite, may threaten Turkey’s supply. Vermiculite expands to corklike lightness and helps engines. Wool clay can become a glassy fiber for walls and boards. An unrelated note covers grasshopper control with castor beans and notes 1936 crop damage.
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Minerals of
Texas
State Planning Board
Garner
Turkey
L. M. Christensen
Chemical Foundation of
Kansas
Department of Agriculture
Dinosaur's Last Pasture Found in Utah by Smithsonian Paleontologist
Dr. Charles W. Gilmore of the Smithsonian Institution identified fossil bones of a sauropod in Western Utah last summer. The remains date to about 80 million years ago in the Upper Cretaceous period, a time when true mammals were only just emerging.
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Charles W. Gilmore
Smithsonian Institution Paleontologist
Gilmore
Utah
Damages Sought After Bonham Car Crash Case
In Bonham a minor plaintiff represented by his grandmother sues Community Natural Gas Company for 38500 alleging an agent’s car crash killed the father and mother of Charles S Glasscock and left the boy with permanent injuries The petition seeks 23000 for the parental fatalities and 500 for the automobile damages with the incident dating from a trip to Anna and scheduled for January court action.
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Bonham
Sixth Judicial District Court
Charles S. Glasscock
Community Natural Gas Company
Ora Glasscock
George Allen Glasscock
Beatrice Glasscock
Anna
Innovations in wartime science and medicine
A German soap from coal fat, American treated fruit wraps to curb rotting, Japanese shark oil for aviation engines, and Americans using sound waves to clear smoke. UC produced pure Vitamin K crystals aiding blood clotting. Hogness links bicarbonates to reduced oxygen transport. A glass boot by Herman and Reid restores circulation in gangrene, with amputation avoided in a frozen leg case.
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Japan
University of California
T. R. Hogness
University of Chicago
L. G. Herman
Mont R. Reid
Cincinnati General Hospital
Employers' tax rise to 3 percent for 1938 payrolls
Washington officials of the Social Security Board said the unemployment insurance tax on payrolls will rise from 2 to 3 percent starting in 1938. The 3 percent rate will be the standard for future years with the exact impact on the fund for laid off workers undetermined. 1937 receipts were estimated at over $900 million.
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Washington, D. C
Social Security Board
Wrong Buttons Death Sentence Noted in Moscow
Sixteen new death sentences were disclosed today for offenses including stocking stores with unwanted buttons, storing ruined window dummies in a cellar after a flood, and disrupting livestock breeding. Other charges include diversion of funds and failing to stock needed goods, resulting in the death of a peasant woman worker.
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Moscow
Evolution of the American Auto Industry Through Time
The piece notes how early 1900s trials led to today’s vast motor industry. It links small firms selling primitive cars at about 3000 dollars to a boom in larger factories and employment. It contrasts 1907 road scenes with today a thriving sector employing hundreds of thousands and offering superior cars at one-fifth the former price.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
42Nd Street
Consumers Information
Brother You're Not the Only One Letter to Sheriff on Taxes
A humorous old letter to a sheriff mocks the heavy tax burden and taxation laws from multiple authorities. The writer, TI B. Paine, claims crippled finances due to business, income, excise, and license taxes plus insurance and social demands. He jokes about inheritance taxes and a tiny inheritance to cover the alleged debt with a postdated check.
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Red Cross
Purple Cross
Double-Cross
Henry
B. Paine
Saving Steam Boy at the Porter's Whim
A humorous exchange shows a boy offering to help by grunting while the porter lifts a large trunk. The dialog captures a brisk street moment of work and wit as the porter tests the boy's resolve and strength.
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Porter
Why O Henry Served Time in a Texas Scandal
Houston report on O Henry real name Will Porter who faced embezzlement charges. Bank president Frank Hamilton appealed to the grand jury, a no-bill was issued, but a federal examiner triggered indictment. Porter served five years in Ohio and three years three months in a later Texas case, with Culberson and Judge West recalling the history for posterity.
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Houston
O. Henry
Robert A. Culberson
Will Porter
Culberson
Duval West
Bob
Porter
Ausin
Treasury Department
Ohio State
Honduras
Austin
West
Poorly Nourished Women and Cardus Endorsement
Advertises Cardus as a remedy for lack of appetite poor digestion and nervous fatigue claiming mothers recommended it for over fifty years. Encourages women to consult a physician if no benefit and notes thousands testify it helps them.
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Cardus
Garland All-Stars and 17-B Tie In Onion Bowl Classic
The Garland athletic field hosted the Onion Bowl classic on Christmas afternoon with 2,500 fans as the Dallas County 14-B all-stars and 17-B all-stars from Plano Royse City Rockwall Whitesboro Van Alstyne Whitewright Farmersville battled to a scoreless tie. Key players included Bussy Thornhill of Whitewright for 17-B and Stokes of Buckner and Sellers of Garland for 14-B. The game featured strong defensive lines and few scoring threats, with neither side crossing the other’s goal line after a tense opening.
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Dallas County
Bussy Thornhill
Whitewright
Thornhill
Vineyard
Melody
Royse City
Carr
Webb
Stokes
Sellers
Buckners
Garland
Lucas
Irving
Payne
Buckner
Mowat
Lancaster
Wade
Stultz
Richardson
Fragmentary football lineup fragments from Texas teams
Readable bits list players by city or team including Garrifia Montgomery Carrollton Garland Stokes O ner Lucas Irving Bridge Grand Prairie B Wade Rockwall terbury Farmersville Stinson Carr Rockwall Crowel Rouse City Thornhill Wright Dismore Barris Rockwall with positions such as backs guards and center, in a jumbled lineup excerpt.
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Wer
McCallum
Garrifia
Montgomery
Carrollton
Sellers
Garland
Stokes
Lucas
Irving
Bridge
Grand Prairie
Wade
Rockwall
Terbury
Farmersville
Stinson
Carr
Whitewright
Crowel
Rouse City
Thornhill
Wright
Dismore
Barris
Rev Houtain promotes yearly remarriage plan in New York
Albany N Y Jan 2 1961 The Rev s J Houtain urges Americans to remarry once annually as a New Year’s resolution. He schedules Jan 2 as a wedding Sunday at Clinton Heights Community Congregational Church where he serves as pastor. He argues annual marriages would preserve the home as the basic unit and renew the family bond.
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Albany
N. Y
S J. Houtain
Clinton Heights
Cormunity Congregational Church
Pei
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