Sterling Leaves Office Before Me And Jim Arrive
R S Sterling of Houston moved out of the Governor's Office rooms at 11 55 am Tuesday and Mrs Miriam A Ferguson moved in at 12 40 pm. The outgoing and incoming governors did not meet. She posed for photos with Mrs Edgar Witt and a Boy Scout honor guard.
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Austin
R. S. Sterling
Houston
Miriam A. Ferguson
Governor Sterling
Sterling
James E. Ferguson
University of Texas
Janice Berry
Frances Smith
San Marcos
Jack A. Bridgeman
Bogota
Colombia
Bridgeman
Texas
Jap” Brookshire
Lufkin
Fergusons
Ferguson
Ben Whitten
San Augustine
Mark Hill
Gilmer
John Wood
Timpson
Wood
Pat M. Neff
Hugh Green
Fruit and Vegetable Shipments Decline in December Texas
Texas truck farms shipped 2832 carloads of fruits and vegetables in December, down from 3246 in December 1931, about 13 percent. Spinach led with 988 cars, while mixed vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes, and greens all fell from 1931 figures amid cold weather. The 1932 year total reached 49,963 carloads, down from 58,842 in 1931, with USDA prices rising from 57 to 59. Spend your money in your town.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
University Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Labor racket in Texas exposed by federal case
Four labor leaders were convicted in a Texas based scheme described as the most reprehensible fraud by a federal judge. Victims testified they paid 37.50 to 75 dollars to join unions with promises of jobs in South America. Sentences ranged from probation to four years in Leavenworth for Knowlton Foster Hager and Greathouse.
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Leavenworth
H. W. Foster
J. A. Hager
J. A. Greathouse
Kennamer
Orangeville News Highlights Local Visits Illness and Socials
The column lists residents ill this week including Mrs. Andrew Creecy Mrs. Lucian Jones and Mr. Jones. It notes guests visits by Sherman Pete McCollum Mahurin guests the Holt siblings and many neighbors in Kentuckytown Kerr Trenton and Meddlintown. Preaching at the Baptist church is announced for next weekend.
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Andrew Creecy
Lucian Jones
Mr. Jones
Clarence Burden
Pete McCollum
Sherman
Lois Wilder
Pauline Ownby
Holt
J. D. Richey
Day Snow
Mr. Woods
Kentuckytown
Frank Holt
Paul Bowen
Josie Young
Christine Blant
Raymond Taylor
Watt Ownby
Woodrow Bowen
Lloyd Barry
Charley McCord
Eason
Lloyd Eason
Robert
Martha Young
Bonham
Clinton Jones
Vernie Hall
Whitewright
Pascal Farley
Imogene
Lonnie Jones
Jewel
Lucile Holt
The
Baptist Church
Hancock
W. H. Ackley
Jim Mayes
Leonard
Otis Wilder
Lucile
Mis
Pat Miller
Orangeville
Vestal Brothers
Mattie Harris
Roy Mayes
Hogwallow News Oddball Report From Town
An airplane passed over this week and a driver sped up on the roads. Jeff Potlocks says he gained nearly nine pounds and wears a new hat. Tobe Moseley jokes about pig pen discipline. Raz Barlow browses a jeweler show window on Main Street. Sile Kilden muses on wireless words and music and the Wild Onion teacher’s salary. Ellick Helwan ger plans to marry again.
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Jeff Potlocks
Sile Kilden
Community Notes From Pilot Grove and Nearby Towns
Multiple brief items report social visits and weekend guests across Sherman Whitewright Van Alstyne Trenton Farmersville Denison Corsicana and Fort Worth. Births deaths and funerals noted including a daughter born to Horace Belew and the infant death of the Taylor Scott child.
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Whitewright
George Miller
Sherman
L. B. Hulett
Valda Smith
E. E. Binion
Margaret Sears
Louise Sloan
Ora Bell
van Alstyne
T. W. Cato
Farmersville
D. M. Taylor
Cleve McAfee
Trenton
Fort Worth
Horace Belew
J. L. McSpedden
Tom McSpedden
F. B
Rufus Scott
Cedar
A. L. Scott
Will Scott
Corsicana
Taylor Scott
Tragedy of a Girl at Dallas Hilton Deepens
A young woman leaped from the Hilton Dallas eleventh floor last week, dying after writing she would go blind and could not afford life. Readers offered brief sympathy then moved on to sports and other news as such tragedies unfold daily.
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Hilton
Dallas
Curious Definitions From Examination Papers
A list of humorous misdefined terms like pyramids as mountains between France and Spain and a circle as a line that ends without ending. It notes Benjamin Franklin and playful misstatements, then mentions London city officials at the 250th anniversary services of St James Church.
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France
Spain
North Pole
Benjamin Franklin
City of London
St. James’ Church
Human head on fish seen in strange curio
In Chester Pennsylvania a local collector Snow B Maslin displays a 16 inch petrified specimen with a human head and facial features fused to a fish body. Maslin claims Seminole heritage and notes the curio has puzzled scientists for over 20 years.
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Chester
Snow B. Maslin
Maslin
Card of Thanks and estate notice from 1932
Card of thanks from Mrs. Joe Wallace and family for sympathy and flowers after a death. Also thanks from Mrs. Mattie May and family for Christian love. Auto Finance ad seeks quick car loan. Notice to creditors for T. E. Sears estate names Mrs. Mabel Sears administrator in Grayson County Texas.
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Rawleigh
Grayson
Cooke County
W. T. Rawleigh Company
Memphis
Tenn
L. H. Dadwin
Joe Wallace
Mattie May
Allene May
Auto Finance Company OF
Sherman F. W
T. E. Sears
Whitewright
Texas
Grayson County
Mabel Sears
The Individual Is Small in the World of Mass Life
A Denison Herald reflection on the wand of life weaving all, noting that the masses pursue happiness while the individual is scarcely missed after death. It argues personal sorrow fades as generations pass and life continues despite grief, urging acceptance of nature’s harsh law.
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Denison Herald
Condensed Geography Lesson Gone Awry
A classroom exchange highlights a pupil misnaming sources as the teacher asks for the origin of sugars. The boy replies he does not know, prompting the insistence that sugar comes from the neighbor, illustrating muddled geography knowledge in a light moment.
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West Indies
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R. PF
Orangeville News
Hogwallow News
Tobe Moseley
Raz Barlow
Main Street
Tickville
Ellick Helwanger
Pilot Grove News
Planters Gin Company
L. LaRoe
E. D. Barlow Nursery
Greenville
George German
Garland Cream Company
Roy Norris
D. A. Ray
Kansas City Life
O. Sam Cummings
Brvay Street
J. C. Stinson
R. L. Johnson
Byrne Commercial College
Tyler Commercial College
Tyler
Sun Office
R. D. Ford
Myra Nell
Bonnie Mae
R. R. Waldo
Dairy Maid
Gladiola Gloom
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