Light for Farmers Answers on Rural Electrification
Washington answers farmers questions on how to obtain electricity via cooperative groups through the Rural Electrification Administration. Loans require repayment at 2.75 percent over 20 to 25 years, with minimum cooperatives of about 100 families for a 30 mile line. REA aids organization, sets loan rates, and outlines funding projections for electrifying up to about 1,000,000 farms in ten years.
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Washington
Morris L. Cooke
Rural Electrification Administration
Washington, D. C
REA
The
Electric Home and Farm Authority
RFC
Dog Checks Luxury Life With Alley Truths
A Kansas City dog owner’s pampered Sealyham is jailed among mixed breeds after the hound Bozo offers a blunt verdict. Bozo says a dog is a dog at heart, and luxury cannot erase natural instincts or the joy of a bone, flea hunt, and freedom from restraint.
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Kansas City
Star
Bozo
Sealyham
Trampas
Freak Accidents From Recent Southern Tornadoes
A string of odd accident tales follows the Southern tornado. W T Porter lies gravely ill in Alabama as the storm wrecks four of five rooms while one remains untouched. In Georgia W P Sleigh family survive near total destruction. Washington Soldiers Home residents Maurer and Mahoney suffer fatal hip fracture and pneumonia after a curious collision. A South Carolina watchman dies after mistaking poisonous soldering fluid for whisky. In California a boy is knocked into a candy case by a dog, escaping injury.
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W. T. Porter
Alabama
Robert Elmore
Georgia
W. P
William Maurer
Alexander Mahoney
Washington
Maurer
South Carolina
California
Boy Provokes Punishment With Rock Offer
A mother tells her son Tommy to fetch a switch for punishment. He returns with a rock and suggests she throw it at him after not finding a switch. The exchange depicts a punitive moment and child misbehavior.
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Tommy
On Giving Up Smoking
A wry, reflective piece detailing six methods to quit and a current plan. It weighs will power, substitutes, gradual reduction, and lifestyle changes while noting humorous snags such as rising costs and lingering cravings. The narrator emphasizes health gains but ends with the punchline about cigar prices.
Monument to Union soldiers in Comfort Texas story
In Comfort Texas lies the lone monument to Union soldiers south of the Mason Dixon line. German settlers loyal to the United States were killed or captured during 1862 encounters with Confederates while attempting to flee to Mexico. Nineteen were killed, nine were executed, and eleven joined the Texas cavalry or fled to California. The bones were later reinterred with a ceremony and a monument bearing Treue der Union.
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Comfort
Texas
United States
Mexico
Grey
Gillespie, Kerr, Kendall, Edwards
Kimble
Union Loyal League
Fritz Tegener
New Orleans
Loyal
Rio Grande
Flint Rock
Nueces River
Leopold Bauer
United States Army
Texas Cavalry Volunteers
California
Taxes with a Smile Ad Vise Causes Grumpy Reply
A government official urges paying taxes with a smile while Col. Grumpy retorts that they require cash. The humorous exchange highlights a tension between persuasion and formality in fiscal matters.
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Col
Shelterbelt program in six states faces disbanding
Lincoln reports limited plans for continuing the federal shelterbelt project after July 1. Nebraska considers a plan at the next conservation meeting while North Dakota urges farmers to plant woodlots. Texas plans to keep tree distribution to windbreaks under Clarke McNary. No plans from South Dakota Kansas or Oklahoma. About 100 million trees remain in federal nurseries. Congress cut funds for continuation after spending about 3 million in two years.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Frank B. O’connell
State Game, Forestation and Park Commission
North Dakota
South Dakota
Kansas
Oklahoma
Congress
Canadian
Plains States
Texas
Soup Man Estate Pays Big Tax To Second State
William D. Kelley of New Jersey’s inheritance tax bureau announced a $15.62 million check from the executors of the late Dr. John T. Dorrance’s estate to offset Pennsylvania’s $14.5 million tax claim. New Jersey asserted Dorrance was domiciled in Cinnaminson Township at his 1930 death, while Pennsylvania had ruled Radnor, Pa., as his home.
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Trenton
N. J
William D. Kelley
New Jersey
John T. Dorrance
Campbell Soup Company
Ah’s
Pennsylvania
Dr. Dorrance
Cinnaminson Township
Radnor, Pa
Riddler and Fiddler Ponder Confession Limits
A witty exchange has the Riddler asking if a man should confess all his thoughts and actions to his wife. The Fiddler replies that would be a waste of time as she already knows his thoughts and neighbors will recount his actions.
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Riddler
Fiddler
Lady's Painful Trouble Helped By Cardus
Mrs. Herbert W. Hunt of Hallsville Texas describes cramping and nausea during her monthly cycle. After using Cardus she reports improved health, reduced fatigue, and relief from pain, praising the remedy as effective for functional pains.
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Cardus
Herbert W. Hunt
Hallsville
Texas
Typhoid control urged for clean water and vaccines
A Texas health official stresses typhoid prevention through pure water and milk, proper sewage disposal, fly control, carrier screening, and anti typhoid vaccination. He warns travelers and communities to maintain safeguards to avoid outbreaks while individuals should immunize, regardless of age.
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Austin
John W. Brown
Texas
Life Begins Today by William Lyon Phelps
A quoted reflection by William Lyon Phelps at age 70 warns that self examination tilts toward the past as one grows old. It urges readers older than 50 to maintain initiative and courage to face the future.
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William Lyon Phelps
Sun Office List Notes Typewriter Supplies
A brief Sun office notice lists typewriter carbon and pencil carbon along with typewriter paper as available supplies.
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Sun Office
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S. H. Montgomery Agency
Téxas
Soup Man
First National Bank
Tulia Herald
Custom Banking
Stateville
Sinclair
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