Shortest Grain Crop in About 30 Years Indicated
Washington reports a bleak crop forecast with wheat at 483,622,000 bushels the smallest in thirty years. Oats, barley, rye and corn show declines, with corn at 2,113,137,000 bushels. Water shortages worsen in the West as drought and acreage reductions shrink total field crops. The government says carry-over could be about 150,000,000 bushels.
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Washington
Drouth
Crop Reporting Board
Wallace
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Montana
Farm Administration
Enraged Farmers Oil Guns for War on Car Strippers
In Fort Worth area near Sagi naw and Hicks Station enraged farmers plan vigilante patrols to curb a surge of car thefts. Fourteen men will patrol highways nightly, one driving and one armed, as county cooperation remains lacking.
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Fort Worth
Saginaw
Hicks Station
Siamese twins of Barnum era wed sisters in Wilkes County
The original Siamese twins linked to P. T. Barnum married sisters in the back woods of Wilkes County North Carolina and many of their descendants remain in that region today.
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P. T. Barnum
Wilkes County
North Carolina
What became of the seven wonders of the world
The Henderson Times notes the ancient seven wonders named by Antipater around 200 B C include the Babylonian gardens and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, all later destroyed or lost except the Pyramid of Cheops. A modern list favors discoveries and inventions such as radio and antiseptics that reshaped civilization.
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Antipater
Palestine
Babylon
Diana
Ephesus
Zeus
Olympus
Rhodes
Pharos
Alexandria
Artemisia
Cheops
Henderson Times
Claims Biggest Family With 120 Offsprings
Fred Henden of Wimbledon heads England’s largest family with 120 descendants including children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. At 74 he has 90 grandchildren and says there’s nothing wrong with a big family.
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London
England
Fred Henden
Wimbledon
Henden
This Is The Year To Go To Business College
Money for college expenses is scarce and many who planned to attend cannot. They can enter Sherman Business College in Sherman Texas this year at small cost and earn their way through college next year. Swapping days are here again offering high quality business education for cotton corn oats eggs potatoes at ten percent above market. Home study by mail $6 per month. Night classes for day workers $7.50 per month.
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Sherman Business College
Sherman
Texas
Inland waterways of North Carolina cover 3600 square miles
A covered bridge built in 1818 remains in use on a principal highway leading out of Clarksville Tennessee.
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North Carolina
Clarksville
Tenn
Two Held Up At Home and Robbed
Clarksville residents Mr and Mrs Horace Marsh were held up at their rural home two and a half miles north of Annona late Saturday night. The couple’s car and about 45 in cash plus clothing and other items valued at 500 were taken by two armed men after intruders bound the Marshes and escaped before dawn. A nearby black worker who visited to guard belongings reported strangers in the house. No trace of the car or robbers by Monday morning.
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Clarksville
Horace Marsh
Annona
Panhandle Relief Funds Ready for Drought Area
Unlimited feed and forage loans announced for Panhandle farmers by the National Government. Carl Hill, head of the Emergency Feed Loan Committee, said funds require no mortgages and notes payable on November 1, 1935. Borrowing limits per head: $3 for cattle $4 for horses $1 per hog and 5 cents per chicken.
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Amarillo
Drouth
Panhandle
Carl Hill
Relief rolls shrink in Grayson County June report
The June report from county administrator Marion Wilson shows 2,222 families on relief in Grayson County, 248 on work relief and the rest on direct aid. Averaging four per family, about 8,888 people seek federal and state subsistence, down from 10,000 last winter, with Kentucky University adding poultry school methods for sexing day-old chicks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
Marion Wilson
University of Kentucky
Poultry School
Well Work Wanted by Frank Harvey Near Ely Whitewright
Wanted advertisement seeking well work including digging new wells or cleaning out old wells. Reasonable prices offered by Frank Harvey located 3 miles south of Ely, Whitewright.
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Frank Harvey
Ely
Whitewright
Automobiles and Credit Offers and Estate Notice
Auto loans offer immediate financing with flexible terms and inspection required. In a separate notice, E J Womack and Vincent Alberto announce themselves as administrators of James H Carmack deceased Gray son County Texas seeking all debts and claims for settlement at 117 South Austin Avenue Denison Texas by July 10 1934.
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South
Austin Avenue
Denison
Grayson County
Texas
A. D
E. J. Womack
Vincent Alberto
James H. Carmack
Inheritable Tendencies In Infantile Paralysis
Boston. Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock of Harvard’s infantile paralysis commission reports presumptive evidence of family susceptibility to poliomyelitis. He cites 20 percent of Boston clinic cases with family history and 51 percent in three Vermont communities Waitsfield Barton and Grand Isle. The study traces disease through generations, noting cases of five generations and a father with two children affected.
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Boston
W. Lloyd Aycock
Harvard University Infantile Paralysis Commission
United States
Aycock
Commission
Vermont
Waitsfield
Barton
Grand Isle
Charles 8. Caverly
State Health Department
Harvard
Political Announcements for Democratic Primary Races
The Sun prints candidate notices subject to July Democratic primary action. Listed are SAM RAYBURN for Congress 4th District CLAN R VAN ZANDT for State Senator FRANK REECE and VIRGIL EVANS for Sheriff.
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The
Sun
Sam Rayburn
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T. W. Ayres & Son Dry Goods and Shoe
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Blaine
West Whitewright
J. P. Montgomery
J. H. Waggoner
Flowers
L. LaRoe
E. D. Barlow
Greenville
Rawleigh
Rawleigh Co
Dept
Memphis
Elm St
Dallas
W. N. Wilson
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
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J. H
Jim) Waggoner
George D. Hagans
Jake J. Loy
Frank Reece
Virgil Evans
J. B
Benton) Davis
R. B
Bob) Caraway
J. C
Carl) Allred
P. Janway J. L. Cantrell
S. B
Ben) Vaughan
J. W
John) Washburn
Tom Brice
Harold Doss
Mark Montgomery
Nicholson
Simmons Springs
Axminster
Florence Stoves
R. R. Waldo
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