Farmers Request President to End Cotton Pool Sale
Fort Worth reports a petition to President Roosevelt signed by Texas agricultural leaders and J E McDonald, Commissioner of Agriculture, urging Secretary Wallace to halt all further cotton sales from the producers pool this season. They warn continued sales will flood the market, harming growers while suggesting equal relief for participation trust certificate holders. Signers include A A Allison Corsicana Schuyler Marshall Dallas Frank Hines Childress R H Christopher Mart and W H Goldsmith Cleburne.
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Roosevelt
Texas Agricultural
J. E. McDonald
Commissioner of Agriculture
Wallace
Participation Trust
Texas
Congress
McDonald
A. A. Allison
Corsicana
Schuyler Marshall
Dallas
Frank Hines
Childress
R. H. Christopher
Mart
W. H. Goldsmith
Cleburne
Origin of Odd Prices in Retail History
A store advertising executive explains how odd prices arose from Captain Roland Macy in New York. With no cash registers, clerks were prone to theft, so Macy added cent amounts and cashiers to track transactions. The tactic spread as a psychological lure, outlasting the original robbing risk and shaping consumer pricing.
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G. H. Cilley
Roland H. Macy
Briny
New York
Macy
The Spice of Life Skits At Village Gatherings
A collection of humorous lines from villagers and visitors. Mrs Bivens complains about blue milk as a laugh. A magistrate notes a driver’s speed while a would-be groom offers to marry and take a job. Various neighbors spar over shifts, gossip, lawns, dating, and money. A Washington clerk recalls seeing the President. Merry country quips blend wit and small-town local color.
Busy Man Quips Over Barbershop Borrowing
A brisk exchange unfolds as a hurried man storms at a barber. He orders the razor still and jokes about head movement. He then jokes about neighborly lending, promising not to lend the lawnmower until the snow shovel is returned.
Teacher Gone Mad Joke Caption
A humorous dialogue centers on a teacher who proclaims different arithmetic rules. The students question when Mary will return to school as the teacher insists four and one make five then changes to three and two equal five. The exchange plays on literal math misdirection.
Machines Speed Pensions For Needy of Texas
Texas pension board relies on new machines to process old age assistance checks by July first. The system aims to handle 10,000 payments daily with 75 staff at headquarters and 300 investigators statewide. About 185,000 applications are on file, with many stories of hardship and varied incomes. federal funds and state liquor tax revenue underwrite the effort amid questions of future finances and possible legislative action. The investigation effort is the largest challenge, as many applicants lack clear age records and require extensive cross checks.
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Austin
State Pension Board
Old Age Assistance Board
Department
Texas
Orville Carpenter
Carpenter
Women’s Federation
State University
Father Visits College Insight Turns To Geography
A father asks a professor about his son's progress and learns the son may go down in history but should do better in geography and other subjects. The report then notes Switzerland exported over one million pairs of shoes to other nations for the third straight year.
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Switzerland
Farley Attacks GOP Ticket as Weak and Counterfeit
Washington. Postmaster General Farley denounces the Republican ticket as a synthetic candidate on a counterfeit new deal platform. He says the GOP lineup is the weakest ever and doomed to defeat, accusing its leaders of concealing records and lacking White House qualifications. He criticizes Landon for a hazy gold standard and cites past inflation advocacy by Roosevelt as inconsistent.
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Washington
Republican Party
Farley
White House
Landon
Roosevelt
Convention
Cleveland
Table Manners and Paper Making
A historical note from Holland describes mill workers living with masters and eating together. Masters supposedly conserved food by serving meals hot and forcing workers to leave hungry, a habit echoed in parental chiding of children who gulp their food. Ole Oleson visits a village restaurant asking for squirrel whisky and is offered Old Crow instead, prompting a quip about not wanting to fly but to jump around.
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Holland
Ole Oleson
Ole
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