Conservation Emphasized For AAA Program Plans
The National AAA Conference in Washington outlines 1941 focus on soil conservation with expanded grant aid, wind erosion control, and revised allotments for Texas. Recommendations include extending insurance to more crops, adjusting commercial vegetable limits, and tiered cotton loan policies to stabilize markets.
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College Station
Washington, D. C
George Slaughter
Texas
Great Plains
Great Plains Area
Slaughter
Kidney Stagnation and Constipation Cure Ad
An old ad extols kidney health and offers KIDANS as a remedy to flush kidneys and prevent stagnation. It claims many benefits, promises money back, and invites readers to order two boxes from The Kidans Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Kidans Company
Atlanta
Georgia
Giant Wadlow Buried in Largest U S Casket
Robert Pershing Wadlow the 22 year old 495 pound 8 ft 10 in giant was buried in Oakwood Cemetery Alton Illinois in a 10 ft 8 in steel casket reported as the largest ever built in the United States Thousands attended the funeral service at Streeper Funeral Home with 16 pallbearers and hundreds in the chapel and outside listening via a public address system
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Alton
Ill
Robert Pershing Wadlow
Oakwood
United States
Streeper
Robert Streeper
The
Funeral Home
Petain Boosts Inheritance Limit Tied to Nazi Policy
Vichy France raised the limit on indivisible property from 200000 to 400000 francs to keep ancestral estates intact. The decree mirrors Nazi land laws, encouraging heirs to retain family property. The measure follows Hitler's 1933 Aryan peasant policy, restricting subdivision and sale of small holdings.
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Vichy
France
Adolf Hitler
Petain
Hitler
Germany
Grayson Farmers Received 310707 From AAA in 1939
Six North Texas counties shared 1 874 327 from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1939. Texas totals 29 323 123 of 219 424 368 distributed nationwide. Collin led the area with 457 753, Grayson listed at 310 707, with Denton 229 437 and Hunt 386 116 among nearby counties.
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North Texas
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Washington
Texas
Collin County
Collin
Ellis
Lamb
Lubbock
Lynn
Nueces
Cooke
Denton
Fannin
Grayson
Hunt
Didn’t Raise Him Mother Dialogue Sketch
A short humorous exchange shows a mother remarking that she is not responsible for her husband’s manners as she tells her son not to eat with a knife while noting his father does. The child replies that the father uses a knife.
God Bless America No. 2 Patriot Song Tops Conventions
The 1940s hit God Bless America, popularized by Kate Smith, rises in conventions as a leading patriotic hymn second only to the national anthem. Irving Berlin, a World War I private, published it in 1938 and now donates all royalties totaling $53,646 to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, with funds to be placed in a continuing trust run by Herbert Bayard Swope, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Gene Tunney. Oklahoma has the largest Indian population of any state.
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America
Kate Smith
Irving Berlin
Miss Smith
Berlin
United States
Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts of America
Proof Enough Father and Son in The Country
A father and son stroll a rural landscape and reflect on ancient seas and land. The boy spots an empty salmon tin, a small clue to the land’s past sea history. The exchange captures a moment of curiosity and familial wonder on a sunny afternoon.
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William
Grayson County Sheriff Candidate Promises Honest Administration
The candidate pledges an efficient fair and honest sheriff’s office if elected noting a long record as a peace officer and law enforcement administrator. He also declares a clean political campaign with no bickering or slander of opponents.
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Grayson County
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U. S
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Stephens & Bryant Insurance
Nat'l Bank
the Sun
Typewriter
Grayson Farmers
AAA
Oklahoma
State
Woodrow
Chief Justice Court Civil Appeals
Adv
Bart Shipp
Ae Cooke
Caen
Community Public Service Company
Hotpoint
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