Hardy Men of Soil Making Living In Grayson on Federal Farms
In Grayson County a government back-to-the-soil program places 240 families on 8,500 acres across 240 farms to rehabilitate jobless households. Relief officials report 1,200 people earning livelihoods from cultivated lands with livestock, feeds, and capital goods totaling tens of thousands. County leaders visit daily to oversee farming instruction and progress.
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Grayson
Sherman
Grayson County
Alaska
Lester Cappleman
Jim Doggett
J. J. Loy
Doggett
Jewel Hardy
Perry Waldrop
Cecil Brown
Texas to issue Centennial themed auto plates in 1936
Texas will issue 1936 license plates with a Centennial reminder and color changes for passenger and truck plates. Passenger plates will be cream with blue numerals on a blue background for trucks, reverse colors. Plates will show Tex in the center and 19 and 36 marks, with the word Centennial at the bottom. 1,125,000 passenger plates will be produced at about the same price as this year.
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Texas
Tex
Board of Control
Highway Department
Control Board
Seventeen Children in Wisconsin Family Surges Population
In Jonesdale Wisconsin Henry Halvorson and his wife have welcomed their seventeenth child John Skews Halverson. The family of 19 includes ten sons and six daughters with the eldest 26. Grandfather John Skews smiles at the naming. The parents say they can support themselves and prefer work over relief.
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Madison
Wis
Henry Halvorson
Jonesdale
John Skews Halverson
John
Halverson
Wisconsin
John Skews
Halverson’s
Penny Mint Proposed To Ease State Sales Tax Shortfalls
Washington plans to mint a one mill coin if Congress permits to fix inequities in state sales taxes. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau says Roosevelt approved the idea though not a federal sales tax. If approved, it would create the smallest U S coin, replacing the penny in low-value transactions.
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Washington
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Treasury
Roosevelt
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
United States
Lightning Strikes Honey Grove Man Knocks Out Teeth
Keith Hudgens of Honey Grove was hit by lightning while walking on Highway 5 Friday evening. He was thrown to the ground, several teeth knocked out, chin cut, with possible internal injury and shock.
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Paris
Highway 5
Keith Hudgens
Honey Grove
Hudgeons
Tularemia Cases Reported In Texas Health Hint
A number of tularemia cases, or rabbit fever, have been reported to the Texas State Health Department. Transmission is linked to hunting and handling infected rabbits, bites from wood ticks, and through bloodsucking flies. Prevention includes gloves when handling wild rabbits and protection from tick bites. blood tests are available via state laboratories on request.
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Austin
State Department of Health
John W. Brown
Cost of living declines in June for industrial workers
The National Industrial Conference Board reports a 0.2 percent drop in living costs for industrial wage earners from May to June, marking a second consecutive monthly decline after a long rise. Food prices lead the declines while rents rise slightly, keeping overall costs still higher than several prior years.
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National Industrial Conference Board
Katy Flyer Renamed to Katy Centennial Flyer in 100th Anniversary Preparations
Dallas ceremony marks the christening of the Katy Centennial Flyer with Trinity River water. Walter D. Cline and R. L. Thornton participated as Centennial officials. Miss Carolyn Padgitt broke the bottle, witnessed by many Dallas leaders.
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M-K-T
Walter D. Cline
Managin
Centennial Commission
R. L. Thornton
Dallas
Carolyn Padgitt
Value of the wage earner dollar in June 1935
The wage earners dollar value rose to 120.9 cents in June 1935, up from 120.6 in May, with 1933 at 137.4 cents and June 1929 at 100.8 cents. The base year used for comparison is 1923 according to Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Gainesville Votes Beer Legalization in Precinct 1
Special election results show 770 for and 653 against beer sales in Gainesville and Lindsey in Justice Precinct 1. Gainesville voted dry by 21 votes while Lindsey favored legalization by 140 to 2. Dye's 29 qualified voters were unreported. Do your buying in Whitewright.
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Gainesville
Justice
Lindsey
Dye
Senate Approves AAA Amendments To Raise Prices
The Senate passed the AAA amendment bill 64 to 15 after a day of amendments. It broadens tools to lift farm prices toward parity, validates processing taxes, ratifies them at current levels, and legalizes past benefit contracts while barring suits against the government for those taxes unless producers or consumers bore them.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Supreme Court
For Rent and Miscellany Ad Snippet
Want ads note a rental at the W. F. Sanders dwelling with all conveniences to contact O. L. Jones. Rubber stamps and stamp pads offered by the Sun. Elberta peaches advertised as ready to pick, worm-free, 5 miles north of Bonham on Ivanhoe Pike with a phone contact.
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W. F. Sanders
O. L. Jones
Bonham
Ivanhoe Pike
Bailey Leonard Road to Get Black Topping
County judge J. E. Spies announces an $85,000 state appropriation to build Highway 78 from Bailey to Leonard with rock base and black topping. Right of way secured earlier. The new road will shorten the distance between Bailey and Leonard by about six miles.
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Bonham
J. E. Spies
State Highway Department
Bailey
Leonard
Babies Compete for World’s Biggest Baby Title
Ramsgate in England hosts a global oddity as 3 year olds Leslie Bowles and Joseph Randazza vie for the world championship of the biggest baby. Leslie has gained weight since May and now reportedly weighs 138 pounds against Joseph's 137.
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Ramsgate
England
America
Leslie Bowles
Joseph Randazza
Gloucester
Mass
Elevator fall joke between Pewit and Poteet
A humorous exchange recalls a near fall where one person jokes about sins flashing by. The other responds that only five stories dropped, downplaying danger with a quip.
Funeral Home Drops Burial Association for United Fidelity Life
The Whitewright Mutual Burial Association ends operations after a new law bans burial mutuals without permits. Members are moved to United Fidelity Life Insurance Co., a large Texas legal reserve insurer with assets over 4 million dollars. Agents promote this low cost family insurance as a replacement for burial associations.
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Whitewright Mutual Burial Ass’n
United Fidelity Life Insurance Co
Old Line Insurance Company
Texas
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Stetson
Linanne
Kloth
T.W. Ayres
Sun Office
Centennial
Christen
Katy
FLYER
Whitewright
the Sun
Red Pace Garage
Red Pace
Roberts Garage
Emerson
Manning, Clark & Meador
L. LaRoe
H. C. Hannah & Son
J. H. Waggoner
Farmall
John Deere
T. Doss
Audra Bennett
Fain House
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
MGR
S. Travis St
Chas. G. Nunn Bonham
Bailey, Leonard
Nicholson
S-A
Rollie R. Waldo
Funeral Home
Whitewright, Texas
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