The Scourge of the Fire Bug in Texas
A historical overview explains the fire bug as arson in Texas, detailing two forms pyromaniac and mercenary. It cites past indictments and convictions, notes declines in unknown-origin losses, emphasizes prevention, and calls for public cooperation with fire departments and insurers to reduce incendiary fires statewide.
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Texas
Texas Fire
Texas Fire Insurance Department
Massachusetts
George O. Mansfield
South
State of
Prescription for Kindness Promises Social Sunshine
A brief note from the Waco Farm and Labor Journal extols a positive prescription to influence friends and neighbors. It claims the simple act will bring hope, replace despair with bloom, and cast sunshine where clouds linger. The piece ends with an advertisement urging readers to buy printing in Whitewright.
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Waco Farm and Labor Journal
Amendments Extend Pensions Coverage Across Workers
Washington reports the Social Security Board seeks House approval for amendments to expand coverage to about 2.5 million workers previously excluded. Proposals include extending the 65 retirement age before 1942, including tips in wages, adding merchant seamen and Federal Reserve bank employees, and covering government property enterprises. Future changes may raise pension sizes and shift to a pay-as-you-go system.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Social Security Board
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve
Robert L. Coughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means
Cant Turn Water Off Children Sit Down on Meter
City officials faced a sit-down strike for a second day as a woman blocked grading work by sitting in front of a machine. An inspector attempting to cut water for a delinquent bill found two children on the meter box placed by a South Dallas mother who warned she would punish them if water was turned off. The water user pledged to pay.
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Dallas
South Dallas
The Joys of Yesterday L Hawthorne Verse Fragment
A nostalgic meditation by Lawrence Hawthorne on childhood memories and the happiness found in recalling yesterday. The piece laments the passing of joyful days and reflects on how reminiscence shapes the present, ending with a note about fluoride’s effect on teeth.
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Land of
Long Agh
Lawrence Hawthorne
Wallace Backs Sweeping Farm Bureau Bill in Congress
Secretary Wallace urged immediate consideration of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937, backing the ever-normal granary and production control. He warned constitutionality hinges on liberal Supreme Court rulings and pressed for higher crop carryovers and tariff flexibility to stabilize prices and farm income.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
American Farm Bureau Federation
House Agricultural Committee
Supreme Court
Congress
Wallace
America
U. S. Treasury
Federal Farm Board
AAA
National Grange
White House
Stranger hugs man then steals wallet in Milwaukee
A 60-year-old Milwaukee man, Charles Driskell, was approached by a strange woman who hugged him and startled him. After the encounter he discovered his wallet and $15 were missing, leaving him puzzled by the unusual theft.
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Charles Driskell
Milwaukee
March of Science Ponders Very Early College Entrance
Dr G E Ostrom of Whitworth College joked at a Los Angeles conference about children entering college at four as scientists report hormones speeding rat adolescence from six weeks to four days. The remark notes uncertainty about mental growth, possible shortened lifespan, and questions whether humans would benefit from such rapid development. It cites a failed claim that the human body lacks essential amino acids in the hormone treatment.
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G. E. Ostrom
Whittier College
Federation of Natural Sciences
Los Angeles
Odorant Study Under Texas Law For Gas Alerts
Texas law requiring malodorants in consumer gas follows a deadly hollow-space gas explosion at London Independent School District in East Texas. The State Railroad Commission reports a detectable odor at one part per 99 parts air, with tests favoring banana or bitter almond scents while avoiding harm. A May 31 Austin hearing will consider safe, non corrosive, water insoluble odorants that remain in gas, are harmless, and emit non harmful combustion products. Gelatine No Food Gelatine is high in digestibility.
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Texas
London Independent
East Texas
State Railroad Commission
Bureau of Mines
Austin
Weather and Feelings Logy? Tuberculin Response Tied to Air
Dr. John S. Howe of the University of Illinois College of Medicine described to the American Federation of Experimental Biology that skin shows definite chemical changes linked to barometric pressure. He conducted daily skin tests with purified tuberculin on patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and controls, finding marked variations from 50 to 100 percent in sensitivity. Tuberculin response decreases when tissues lack oxygen and rises during oxidation, with cold skin and constricted vessels contributing to the former.
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John S. Howe
University of Illinois College of Medicine
American Federation of Societies For Experimental Biology
Bloodletting Vindicated by Modern Doctors
A Dallas Times-Herald summary notes that Drs S D J Stephens and Nolan L Kathreider of the University of Rochester report that bloodletting remains desirable for certain patients. They observe that letting blood can relieve pressure when a vein is opened, suggesting some ancient practices had valid bases, though leeches likely won’t return to favor.
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American College of Surgeons
Europe
Dallas Times-Herald
California sequoia stands 364 feet tall in Humboldt County
The tallest tree in California is a sequoia sempervirens in Humboldt County that reaches 364 feet in height and spans a ground circumference of 47 feet.
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California
Humeboldt County
Stomach Worms Cited as Main Cause of Sheep Decline
A study notes that the principal factor behind reduced sheep production and increased deaths is stomach worms. It emphasizes parasitic infestation as the foremost health threat to flocks and calls for targeted deworming and pasture management to mitigate losses.
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Marvin Hall
Texas Fire Insurance Commissioner
Whitewright
Gomer May
Whitewright Lumber Co
Farm Bureau
Josh
Ford
Rees
CIA
Ford Dealers
Denison Auto Company
Denison
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