Payment by U S of Rail Pensions To Start at Once
The Railroad Retirement Board will begin pensions immediately from the Treasury after a court ruled the companion tax act invalid. About 4,000 workers are eligible now with 18 annuities certified from $13.55 to $91.04 monthly, for those 65 with 30 years service.
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U.S
Washington
Treasury
Railroad Retirement Board
Jennings Bailey
United States District Court Here
Congress
Supreme Court
Body facts trivia quiz notes
A list of curious figures about the human body mentions bones muscles blood heart nerves skin and skin layers with approximate counts and dimensions. It poses several questions about typical body statistics and timing of heartbeats per day.
Loan Bureau Saves Many Texas Homes
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation aided Texas homeowners with 44,360 loans totaling 103,207,744 through June 13. Average loan 2,317. Texas ranked eleventh in amount borrowed. Over 98 percent refinanced defaulted mortgages. 12,136 loans totaling 6,156,572 funded past due taxes and repairs.
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Washington
Texas
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
HOLC
Lone Star
Mexican Women Demand Tax On Bachelors
Mexican women file a petition in Mexico City proposing a 5 percent annual income tax on unmarried men aged 30 or older. They argue a tax would boost population, speed resource development, and reduce crime as wives would keep husbands at home. Funds would aid young marriages, maternity hospitals, and women’s homes. Congress will review in September.
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Mexico City
Congress
Savoy Receives $21000 Water System Grant
Savoy secures a 21000 grant from the PWA to complete the town water system. Project work covers mains for domestic and fire protection, installation of hydrants, a 30000 gallon storage tank and steel tower, a 10000 gallon reservoir, with Charles Haydon of Denison as consulting engineer directing the improvements.
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Savoy
PWA
Bryant Penn
Charles Haydon
Denison
New Office Equipment Writes 12000 Old Age Checks Day
Austin reports a state agency uses a modern alphabetic accounting machine to write 250 checks per minute and 12,000 daily. The device prints grant notices, sorts cards by grant amount and county, and produces duplicates for state agencies. It reduces errors to about one in a million.
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Austin
United States
Texas Old-Age Assistance Commission
State Comptroller
Treasury Department
Social Security Board
Ginners to be Paid for Bankhead Cotton Rule Costs
Cotton ginners who did not pass extra costs to farmers and filed claims will receive 25 cents per bale ginned from June 1, 1935, to February 10, 1936. Forms are sent to county agents. claims due by September 1, 1936, with gin name, location, bale count, and whether costs were borne by the ginner.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress
Huey Long
Chinese Area Famine Devastates Szechuan Province
Relief workers report 5,000,000 deaths in Chengti Szechuan as the famine and heat induce widespread hunger. Authorities mobilize efforts amid alarming claims of cannibalism child selling and banditry with more suffering anticipated before relief reaches all affected communities.
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Chengti
Szechuan
China
National government funds for unprecedented rehabilitation
Banks of the national government were financing rehabilitation work on a scale never before witnessed in this country. The statement highlights a massive financial push enabling large scale recovery and modernization across regions.
Cow tails and boys drive grasshoppers from garden
Wichita report says Jesse Cozart used cow tails and six boys to beat a grasshopper invasion in his truck garden. An oldtime cowpuncher declares a red headed boy with a cow tail can whip an army of grasshoppers. Want ads promise results.
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Wichita
Kan
Jesse Cozart
Cozart
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