Rules for Happy Marriage from London Doctor
Dr Edith Summerskill, deputy food minister, outlines seven home rules at a London meeting. Five for husbands urge income transparency and fair share after expenses, plus listening to grievances, while two for brides stress contributing to the home and resisting gold digger labels. A hotel room joke follows about a first time cowboy guest and running water.
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London
Edith Summerskill
Edith
British Married Women’s Association
Cowboy
Man's Upright Posture Sparked Old Debate on Downfall
Washington reports Izvestia denounces Prof. S. D. Antipin’s claim that man’s downfall began with standing upright. Biologists note drawbacks like obesity and varicose veins, but praise advantages such as freed forelimbs becoming hands and other offsets.
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Washington
Izvestia
S. D. Antipin
Antipin
Tonic For Shrubs
COLLEGE STATION Copper as sulfur tonic recommended by Sadie Hatfield to revive yellowing shrubs. Apply quarter to half pound copperas and one pound sulfur per large shrub or small tree, plus soil fertilizer to prevent further yellowing. Spread a thick vegetable mulch to retain soil moisture and nourish roots during summer heat.
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Miss Hatfield
Corner turn to rubber and a girl to a restaurant
Two men named Wood and Stone stood on a corner and after a joke both turned to rubber. The girl who passed transformed into a restaurant, creating a surreal street scene with odd visual twists.
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Wood
Stone
State Local Payrolls Reach All Time High
Chicago report shows 3,994,000 state and local government workers as of last January, cited by the Civil Service Assembly. It notes postwar city growth and expanded services, with total government employment around 6,083,000 and the prewar peak near 6,604,000 in January 1945, while federal jobs have since declined.
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Chicago
Civil Service Assembly
Assembly
Bureau of Census
Standing by the trough in state politics
The Pittsburg Gazette comments on state legislators avoiding decisive votes by adjourning for weekends, likening their behavior to being led back to the trough by voters each election year. The piece questions whether voters will tolerate such indecision and political theater.
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Pittsburg
Grayson County Foreclosure Judgment On Delinquent Taxes
The State of Texas Grayson County and intervening taxing units won a judgment in the 15th District Court No. 57223 against Sidney Blair and Mary E Blaire for 106.33 dollars plus interest at 6 percent from June 2, 1949, with costs. The ruling forecloses the plaintiff’s lien and the liens of the taxing units for the taxes, interest, penalties and costs.
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State of Texas
Grayson
A. D
District Court
Grayson County
15Th Judicial District of Texas
Sidney Blair
Mary E. Blaire
Sheriff to Auction 12.2 Acre Grayson County Land Lot 4
Sheriff M G Dicken of Grayson County Texas announces public auction of 12.2 acres on Pilot Grove Creek land tied to O E Binion Estate lot 4. Sale set for August 2 1949 between 2 and 4 PM at courthouse door Sherman Texas. Proceeds to satisfy the judgment with rights of redemption and tax lien foreclosed.
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Grayson County
District Court
Texas
Sidney Blair
Grayson
State of
Pilot Grove Creek
J. Wheat
Towit
O. E. Binion
C. D. Binion
Fannie Russell
15Th District Court
McKinney Road
N. W
N. E
S. E
Binion
van Alstyne Road
M. G. Dicken
J. H. Brown
Sherman
Tex
Atom Age No Utopia Declared By UC Professor
Dr. Siegfried V. Wantrup of the University of California warns at a San Francisco forum that even with civilian use of atomic power the U.S. must guard dwindling natural resources. He blames inadequate conservation laws and says waste stems from social institutions, not population or tech backwardness.
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San Francisco
United States
Siegfried V. Wantrup
University of California
Wantrup
Sheriff's Sale Notice No 57248 Docketed in Grayson County
Notice of Sheriff's sale issued by Grayson County District Court on June 23 1949 against T E Shirley and heirs of J L Greer T L Reid J P Barron and G W Gaskett Elders of Van Alstyne Presbyterian Church unknown heirs for aggregate $209 50 with 6 percent annual rate plus costs and taxes apportioned to each land tract per judgment and sale order
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State of Texas
Grayson
A. D
District Court
Grayson County
15Th Judicial District of Texas
T. E. Shirley
J. L. Greer
T. L. Reid
J. P. Barron
G. W. Gaskett
van Alstyne Presbyterian Church
Texas
Property redemption claim at Van Alstyne court
On the second day of August 1949 at the courthouse door the title and interest of T. E. Shirley et al are described as property. The defendants right to redeem the said property is provided, covering Lots 1 and 2 Block 14 O. T. P. Van Alstyne Grayson County Texas.
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Said
Grayson County
T. E. Shirley
van Alstyne
Texas
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Mother Earth
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