Land Bank to Hold Its Rate for One More Year
Land Bank commissioner Albert S. Goss announced that the emergency 3 percent interest rate on Federal Land Bank loans will remain in effect for another year. The 3 percent rate applies to interest due in the year starting July 1, 1936 on nearly $2 billion in loans, replacing the 4 percent rate for that period. After June 30, 1937 borrowers resume the rate at which their loans were originally written, with new loans still issued at 4 percent through national farm loan associations.
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Houston
Albert S. Goss
Land Bank
Federal Land Bank
A. C., Williams
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Farm Credit Administration of Houston
Goss
Congress
Control of flea hopper outlined in county article
Clarksville Times reports guidance for farmers on controlling the cotton flea hopper. Host plants include cotton and more than 50 weeds. cleaning fence rows and mowing weeds aids. Dusting with sulfur at 6 to 20 pounds per acre, applied when plants are half knee high, is most effective. larger infestations require more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksville
Grim Joke Between Nurse and Patient In Diary Style
A nurse asks if the father died under comfortable circumstances. The patient bluntly answers that he was half way under a train, delivering a dark, grim punchline in a diary like exchange.
J W Adamson Seeks Re election to Texas Legislature Place 2
J W Adamson urges Grayson County and Texas voters to re elect him to the Texas Legislature Place 2. He cites experience, public trust, and work with federal and state agencies to aid recovery, education funding, rural aid, social security measures, housing for the insane, support for crippled children, and tax fair play for utilities and natural resources. He notes 50 years in Grayson County, 30 in Denison, as a local businessman familiar with regional needs and promises continued opposition to monopolies and favorable tax policies.
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Grayson County
Texas
House of Representatives
Collinsville
Denison
J. W. Adamson
Texas farms report chickens and egg totals by county
The Commerce Department shows eighty five percent of Texas farms had chickens on Jan 1 1935 with 20 541 529 birds on 425 892 farms and 824 887 turkeys on 114 004 farms. 1934 egg production reached 106 785 192 dozen and 27 747 238 chickens were raised across the state. Counties leading in chicken counts include Fayette Lavaca and Williamson with others over two hundred thousand. Fayette led 1934 egg production, followed by Lavaca and Williamson. Turkey stocks as of early 1935 were led by Gonzales, with DeWitt and Lavaca also high.
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Washington
Texas
Department of Commerce
Fayette County
Ellis
Fannin
Fort Bend
Gonzales
Grayson
Guadalupe
Harris
Jones
McLennan
Wharton
Fayette
Gonzales County
Lavaca
Austin
Bell
Bexar
Cherokee
Collin
Dallas
Denton
DeWitt
Falls
Haskell
Hill
Hopkins
Hunt
Kaufman
Lamar
Lamb
Limestone
Lubbock
Milam
Montague
Nacogdoches
Navarro
Red River
Runnels
Rusk
Smith
Tarrant
van Zandt
Williamson
Lavaca County
Colorado
Coryell
Erath
Hamilton
Victoria
DeWitt County
Era
State Prison Welcomes Its First Inmate of 1849
Huntsville report of the first convict William G. Sanson admitted October 1, 1849 after being sentenced for cattle theft in Fayette County. Sanson, a married Georgia native, served about one year and was pardoned September 14, 1850 by Governor Bell for stealing a steer valued at $10 from John Murchison.
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Huntsville
William G. Lawson
John Murchison
The
Election totals by county and district names listed
A string of numerical totals appears for multiple counties including Hunt Karnes Victoria Washington Williamson and Wilson with figures 13 335 10 298 10 065 11 884 12 988 10 741 and 13 861. The snippet provides raw counts without context or labels for what the numbers represent.
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Hunt
Karnes
Victoria
Washington
Williamson
Wilson
First woman convict received in 1854 for infanticide
A 23 year old housemaid from Bexar County, Elizabeth Hofman, became the first woman convict received in 1854, sentenced to one year at hard labor. Her papers bore the signature of District Clerk J. M. Carolan after she pleaded guilty before John A. Green, district attorney, in a case involving two separate guilty pleas a bit earlier.
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John A. Green
Elizabeth Hofman
Bexar County
J. M. Carolan
Two European States Lacking Cinemas Name Hidden
London report notes only two European countries lack cinema houses. Lichtenstein and the Republic of San Marino have no film theatres, leaving Garbo and Gable unseen in those locales. The finding comes from an international survey.
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Europe
London
Lichtenstein
Republic of San Marino
Garbo
Gable
Interna
Film theater density across Europe and Andorra
The International Association of Cinema Proprietors released statistics on film fan interests. Germany leads Europe with 5,243 cinemas and 1,499,528 seats, Great Britain has 5,058 cinemas with capacity for at least 3,200,000 patrons, France 4,100 cinemas, and Andorra has one cinema showing films to 750 viewers at a time. Iceland has three cinema houses.
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Tional Association of Cinema Proprietors
Germany
Great Britain
France
Andorra
Iceland
Rich Man Faces Trouble in a Doctor’s Office
A Black patient with a head injury visits a doctor. He jokes that his cuts come from razor work and laments lack of money for divorce, prompting the doctor to chide him about bad company. The exchange uses dialect to convey hardship and humor.
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S. H. Montgomery Agency
Texas Farms
State’s Prison
First National Bank
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