Twenty States For Repeal By Majority Of Three To One
Washington reports 8,672,625 votes for repeal of national prohibition versus 2,575,761 for retention from 20 states with three Southern states joining in. Final state canvases pending. list of upcoming repeal votes by date across numerous states.
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Washington
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Oregon
Arizona
Missouri
Texas
Vermont
Colorado
Maine
Maryland
Minneso
Idaho
New Mexico
Florida
North
South Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Montana
Utah
Cotton crop destroyed of man who refused pledge
Alexandria Louisiana reports that El lis Scroggs, a farmer on the Alexandria Marksville River Road, had 65 acres of cotton. unknown assailants pulled up and destroyed five to seven acres, part of a pledge to cut at least 25 percent of the crop under a government surplus program. Whitewright merchants offer you better values.
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Alexandria
Ellis Scroggs
Marksville
Red River
Scroggs
Banks Reflect Life Surrounding Them In Economic Terms
Francis H. Sisson argues in Forum Magazine that bank conditions mirror local economic forces. Loans, notes, and securities reveal whether a region thrives or declines, and banking cannot be separated from the fortunes of the people and the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis H. Sisson
American Bankers Association
Forum Magazine
Farm District Bank
Bank Rebuilder Turns Loss into Profit Through Renovation
A New York savings bank turned a 3 percent loss on a $40,000 investment into a 6 percent profit on $80,000 by modernizing 40 older tenant buildings on the lower East Side. Foreclosed, the bank remodeled with an oil heating plant and incinerators, now fully rented at $14,000 yearly. The project is expected to pay off in three years and is part of 15 similar renovations, with the bank handling in-house architection and seven painters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dina May or Dina Mite joke turns on baby name
A preacher jokes on the meaning of Dina M for a baptized baby girl Dina May if she grows sweet like the father or Dina Mite if she inherits her mother’s temper. A joke about a good office boy who smokes, cusses or gambles not, but will not work.
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Dina M
Dina
Farmer Boy and Hayload Clash in Rural Banter
A motorist asks a farmer boy to warn his boss about an overturned hayload. The boy says the boss already knows because he is under the hay. A tractor salesman questions crop yield, and a talkative lady clashes with an angler over a fish tale about keeping quiet.
Wit and wisdom from old jokes and short quips
A collage of humorous anecdotes and light sketches from different voices and places. Jokes about a Tennessee chicken case, a Kentucky ad line, a meat shop pun, a talking child, a lunchroom exchange, a bank looter joke, matrimony wisecracks, and a fast talking contractor quip.
Important Meeting At Greenville
East Texas Chamber of Commerce to push President Roosevelt s emergency re employment drive at a district meeting in Greenville on Thursday August 3 at two o clock. Leaders will explain the blanket code with max hours and min wages and a pledge against profiteering. Attending officials from Grayson Fannin Lamar Delta Hopkins Hunt Collin Rains Rockwall Kaufman Van Zandt and Dallas counties.
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Greenville
Roosevelt
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
E. L. Kurth
Hubert M. Harrison
East Texas Chamber
Grayson
Fannin
Lamar
Delta
Hopkins
Hunt
Collin
Rains
Rockwall
Kaufman
van Zandt
Dallas
Betsy Ross romance and a God‑owned land tale
Elizabeth Griscomb eloped to Gloucester New Jersey with John Ross to become Betsy Ross. A land parcel near La Porte Pennsylvania is deeded to God Almighty in 1864. Americans consumed 5 200 000 tons of sugar in 1932. About 150 million pounds of tobacco were displaced in 1932 due to tariffs and monopoly policies. Department of Agriculture records show nearly 2 million cattle waiting for tuberculin tests in 23 states in April 1933. Over 2 000 public campgrounds exist in 148 national forests.
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Elizabeth Griscomb
Gloucester
N. J
Gretna Green
Philadelphia
John Ross
Betsy Ross
Laporte
God Almighty
Peter E. Armstrong
Department of Agriculture
Consider the Hammer Knocker Motto in Brooklyn Central
A Brooklyn Central quote extols the hammer as a steady worker that keeps its head, drives points home, and recovers from mistakes. It contrasts calm persistence with losing one’s temper, touting the hammer as the only knocker that does good.
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Brooklyn Central
How One Woman Lost 20 Lbs of Fat
A promotion touts Kruschen Salts as a safe fat reduction method for women. It claims a 30 day course with daily half teaspoon doses in hot water before breakfast, plus dietary cuts, promising noticeable weight loss and improved skin and vigor.
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Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
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Whitewright
Barbee
W. J. Barbee
Agency
Whitewright Sun
the Bank
Sam
Kentucky
Francine
Stingo
Fritz
Cuthbert
Henry Gord Dearborn
Mich
Oklahoma
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