Texas Traffic Death Toll Analysis by Julian Montgomery
A Texas highway engineer, Julian Montgomery, analyzes 1938 traffic fatalities showing a 20 percent drop from 1937 while stressing ongoing highway safety challenges. He cites drunken driving, speeding, disobedience to signals, and mechanical faults as key fatal factors, with detailed breakdowns and explanations of speed and stopping distances.
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Austin
Texas
Julian Montgomery
Montgomery
The Optimist Poem Ends Pessimism With Hope
A Cleveland Plain Dealer lyric from 1894 contrasts gloomy cynicism with optimism as flowers bloom robins sing and the sun shines. The piece urges readers to shed sadness and stay engaged, ending with a promotion for a Want Act.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Balancing Lamps Creates Unified Home Lighting
The article advises balancing lighting like interior design. Add a lamp to empty corners to improve room feel, using bridge or table lamps or decorative pieces. Aim for balance between upper and lower room lighting, noting new scientific lamps diffuse light upward to return to the ceiling, creating an indoor sky effect.
Malnutrition A Public Health Concern In Texas
Dr Geo W Cox Texas State Health Officer warns malnutrition has risen due to unemployment and poverty. Half of Texas schoolchildren are affected to some degree and prolonged malnutrition harms growth energy and disease resistance. He urges a well balanced diet, public education, and free nutrition information via penny postcard.
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Austin
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
Cox
State Health Department of Texas
Hello Controversy Sparks Change in Dallas Phone Usage
A Dallas telephone company stopped using the greeting "hello" arguing it wastes time and blocks lines. The piece notes callers should identify themselves with phrases like "Business office, Miss Jones speaking." It recounts reactions, benefits, and a digression on historical customs and legends about language and kings.
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Dallas
Miss Jones
Mr. Smith
Miss Snoop
Smith
Atlantic
Ford December Sales Hit New High Since 1937
Ford Motor Co. domestic December sales reached 60,669 units, the highest since September 1937, about 20 percent above December last year. Used car sales rose 20 percent from a year ago, while dealer stocks of used cars were 25 percent lower than January 1 last year. Mount Rainier’s glacier system far surpasses any other U.S. peak, with twenty eight rivers of ice descending its slopes year round.
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Dearborn
Mich
Ford Motor Co
Mount Rainier
United States
Superstition Sparks Rabbit Foot Charm Sales in New York
Jewelry shops report strong demand for rabbit-foot charms in silver or gold mounts. A printed slip links luck to a graveyard rabbit killed at midnight by a red-headed, cross-eyed man on a white mule. The text also notes Charles Stewart Parnell’s refusal to sign documents with 13 clauses, insisting on one clause be removed.
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New York
Charles Stewart Parnell
Ireland
Honest work brings health and joy poem
A compact verse urges labor as virtue and joy, contrasting bustling effort with idleness. It envisions daily duty rewarded by rest at sunset and the calm of a fulfilled life, ending with a reflective wish for a willing mind.
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