Homestead Exemption Rules Outlined by Comptroller Office
The state plans a constitutional homestead exemption of 3000 dollars for owner occupied residences with a $20.70 annual saving in state taxes. Farmers may claim 240 acres and must render homesteads by June 1. The AG notes the Tax Assessor and Tax Collector offices will merge effective January 1, 1935.
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Comptroller’s Office
Austin
Comptroller
Comptroller’s
Attorney General
Technocracy: a new rule by technology or hoax?
Fort Worth Star Telegram surveys Howard Scott and his technocracy movement. It describes 12 years of work, 3000 charts, and plans to replace workers with automated systems while warning of debt and economic upheaval.
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Scott
Egypt
Pyramids
Mr. Scott
New Jersey
Europe
Flanders
Canada
Technocracy
America
Greenwich Village
Universal Engineer
Fort Worth
Wedded 63 Years Couple Buried Together in Tom Bean
Grayson County couple J. W. Stephens 86 and wife 83 were buried in Wittitee Cemetery after funeral services at Tom Bean Baptist Church. The couple, charter members, died within days of each other, marking 63 years of marriage.
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Grayson County
J. W. Stephens
Tom Bean
Wittitee
Tom Bean Baptist Church
J. L. Truett
Whitewright
Time Counts Test Bayer Aspirin Speed
Bayer Aspirin promises safe and speedy relief from headaches colds sore throat neuralgia neuritis rheumatism or pain. The ad urges testing dissolution in water to compare speed with other tablets as a caution against bargain brands.
Put First Things First for Texas Children’s Schools
The author argues education is the state’s top obligation, insisting teachers’ salaries should be funded before other expenditures. He contends spending on schools benefits the community, supports training for youth, and asks Texas parents to favor primary school funding over highway or building projects. He urges spending locally in Texas.
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B. H. Miller
Texas
Congress Rights In Repeal Outlined
Washington, D. C. Attorney General Mitch ell Palmer argues Congress has the right to call and regulate the time and manner of choosing delegates to state conventions for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. He counters Rep. Beck asserting the Constitution is a covenant of the people and that states should control proposed conventions. Palmer cites Supreme Court rulings that the Constitution is made by the people, not states, and that Congress may set deadlines for ratification.
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Washington, D. C
A. Mitchell Palmer
Wilson
Congress
Representative Beck
Pennsylvania
Palmer
Beck
House
Supreme Court
Hogwallow News Atlas Highlights Odd Local Tales
Atlas Peck urges private peep-holes for home safety while Clair Hancock moves to chair Hog Ford church committee. Jail prisoners threaten to leave if doors aren’t kept closed in cold weather. A Wild Onion globe map is oiled at both poles. Cricket Hicks sings Grand Opera to surprised audience and is found with a phonograph under his coat. Hicks rides to Thunderation with a muggy reception as socks slip. Sidney Hocks laments being ignored except during church hiccups.
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Wild Onion
Cricket Hicks
Atlas Peck Sees Repeated Serial Story Through Four Years
Atlas Peck notes that readers follow the Tidings with the same devotion as years pass, asserting that men may come and go yet the ongoing serial tale continues to run.
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Atlas Peck
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Dyer & Jones
Hogwallow News
Dusk Botts
Clair Hancock
Hog Ford
Tickville
Wild Onion School
Sidney Hocks
Cleopatra
Doan
the Sun
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