Texas fishing season clash with Southern states
Austin debates whether Texas opens May 1 as required while most Southern states delay. Biologists note spawning eggs are destroyed when Texas opens early, and the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission lacks authority to regulate. Louisiana and Mississippi follow Texas date. Arkansas and others vary widely. A lake scene recalls a prairie dog heading toward an island during a boat chase.
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Austin
Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Lone Star
Game Department
Texas Department
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Deer chase coyote astonishes Texas game warden
A Texas game warden near Webb reports two does and a yearling chasing a coyote across ranch country. He notes it as a rare reversal of the usual predator chasing prey. A prior similar but less dramatic incident involved a doe pursuing a coyote with a very young fawn.
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Texas
Webb
Austin
Game Department
Quail Prizes For 4-H Contest In Texas
Texas Game Department and Hockley County agents awarded blue quail breeding stock to 4-H Club members who built the best scaled quail cover on farms. Biologists and the county agent judged fifty nine winning projects. The program aims to reestablish good cover for birds across the state through farm and ranch initiatives.
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Texas Game Department
Hockley County
Game Department
Sea Going Prairie Dog Discovered Far Inland
Brownwood residents John Gabbert, his son John Jr, and Ernest Stalcup reported sighting a prairie dog more than 150 yards from shore. The unusual find stunned the trio during their inland exploration.
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John Gabbert
John Jr
Ernest Stalcup
Brownwood
Texas Prairie Chicken Population Decline Attributed To Flood Losses
Flood waters in Colorado and other South Central Texas counties swept away Attwater prairie chicken nests. The destruction, coupled with shrinking ranges and habitat loss, leaves the birds scarce and prompts a continued closed season. Restoration hopes hinge on rebuilding nesting areas and possible short future seasons.
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Texas
Colorado
Game Department
Panhandle
Bonds or Bondage Defend with small bonds and stamps for liberty
The piece argues every American must buy defense bonds or face weakened defense and loss of freedom. It explains bond values, cashing rules after 60 days, and that bonds serve as savings and security for borrowing. It contrasts collective effort with Nazi bondage threats. It ends noting Americans consume eight pounds of honey per person annually.
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Uncle Sam
C. Py & L. News
Quick and Easy Salad By Jane Knox
Health defense urged as essential to success of other programs. Readiness for warm weather with jellied salads using plain gelatine. Includes Grap juice Luncheon Loaf and Tomato Vegetable Ring recipes and a Quick Fruit Salad.
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Jane Knox
Tips From The Housewife On Everyday Remedies
Practical household hints cover cutting felt mats to protect furniture, cleaning soiled felt, removing rust on curtains, quick roast browning under broiler, rubber bands for storage and cooking tasks, dipping fish for cleaning, restoring granulated honey, talcum powder in bags, keeping fruit from sinking in cake, and storing leather to prevent mildew.
Household Tips From Everyday Kitchen to Home Care
Practical advice on kitchen and home tasks includes flavoring scrambled eggs with bread crumbs, stiffening hair bristles with alum water, cleaning oven dishes with borax, adding sugar after cooking fruit, reducing sputtering with flour in pans, placing coat hooks low for children, and removing egg stains from metal spoons with salt.
Origin of doughboy term and flag laws
The doughboy term arose from Civil War button shapes and Navy doughnut lore, later applied to infantrymen. The U S flag flies at Capitol entrances year round by decree, while Senate and House flags fly only when Congress is in session. Only Congress can declare war. the President may seek a declaration.
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Navy
United States
Capitol Building
Washington, D. C
Capitol
Senate
House
Congress
U. S
Arms to Defeat Axis Requires 40 Billion Yearly
Washington. Stacy May of the Office of Production Management urged that Axis defeat could not be insured without a yearly $40,000,000,000 in arms production. He said the United States must spend this amount, double current totals, and match the heft of Canada England and Germany in armaments.
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Washington
Stacy May
Office of Production Management
United States
Canada
England
Germany
Egg Surprise At Breakfast
A commercial traveler at a small hotel ordered two boiled eggs for breakfast. The waiter brought three, explaining with a smile that one might fail. The guest learned the extra egg was a precaution to ensure he had at least two.
When a Child Needs a Laxative
SYRUP OF BLACK-DRAUGHT is a tasty liquid that children welcome when they need a laxative. It shares the same main ingredient as BLACK-DRAUGHT, its older companion, and it provides refreshing relief from typical laxative symptoms. Comes in two sizes 25c and 50c.
Americana Snippets From Across the Nation
A Linden New Jersey sheltering of an intoxicated transient raises a murder suspect link to eight states. Fresno considers a hat rack purchase despite authority questions. Cleveland luncheon guests miss a memory expert. Dallas checks a counterfeit name on a check. Marinette signs deter break ins while a mayor warns burglars. A Missouri tattoo artist changes a Social Security number at cost.
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City Commission of
Fresno
Calif
Christian M. Ozias
St. Joseph
Roosevelt Urges Strenuous Life For Nation’s Duty
Theodore Roosevelt calls on citizens to abandon ease and embrace a life of strenuous endeavor. He warns that idle, slothful living will let bolder nations dominate the world, and urges courage, honesty, and upholding high ideals through deeds and words.
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Theodore Roosevelt
The Naked Truth Chorus Girl Quote
A wry line notes similarities between a city and a chorus girl, suggesting both grow from humble outskirts to central prominence. The remark frames urban development and show business as parallel evolutions with shifting reputations.
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Prairie Chickens
Foster’s Butane Gas Service
N. Houston St
Denison, Texas
Foster’s
Denison
A. J. Levinson
Optometrist
Gray’s Credit Jewelers
W. Main
Sun
Linden
N. J
Providence
R. L
Cleveland
Dallas
O. R
Richard J. Murray
Marinette
Wisconsin
Ashburn
Ashburn’s
Conessc
L. LaRoe & Co
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