O Daniel's Hillbilly Campaign Sparks Texas Buzz
In Texas a new politicking style from W Lee O Daniel a Fort Worth flour miller with a hillbilly string band draws large crowds from Waco to North and East Texas. His show stirs talk of votes and worries McCraw backers while Thompson pushes farm relief and tax cuts. Uncertains loom over ballot issues Lone Star gas case and Roosevelt ties.
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Texas
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Fort Worth
Waco
O’daniel
West Texas
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McCraw
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Hunter
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Bill
McCraw Brain Trust
Tom Miller
Ernest Thompson
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Democratic Committee
Vernest O. Thompson
Vernest
Beaumont
Beeman Strong
South Texas
Hyde County Confusion as Acres Turn to Corn Hills
In Englehard, Hyde County farmers face a math quirk as federal farm rules redefine acres using thousands of corn hills. Old timers measure land with a corn fork and a five thousand hill plot, while outsiders shift to acres. Now 250 hills per acre are missing in translation, leaving Hyde farmers chasing a once familiar unit.
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N. C
Hyde County
Hyde
America
Political Announcements for Democratic Primaries 1938
The Sun presents candidacies for voters in the Democratic primaries 1938. For Congress 4th District SAM RAYBURN. For County School Superintendent SEWELL R. McKINNEY and E. A. MILLER. For Sheriff candidates J. Benton DAVIS John C. EVRIDGE P. M. Porter Floyd EVERHEART.
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The
Sun
Sam Rayburn
Sewell R. McKinney
E. A
Ed) Miller
John C. Evridge
P. M
Porter Floyd Everheart
Hypodermic needle diet for sick patients announced
A new method delivers ham eggs and milk by injection as an emergency protein diet. Dr. Robert Elman of Washington University reports injecting amino acids directly into the blood provides the body with nutrients faster and more efficiently than oral protein. Difficulties include expense and limited nonemergency use.
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San Francisco
American Medical Association
Robert Elman
M. D
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis
Elman
Ant strength and the jaws of power in insect life
Roy Chapman Andrews in This Week Magazine recounts astonishing ant feats. An Australian ant suspended by its jaws supported gloves over 1,100 times its weight, while a 150 pound man would need 82 tons in teeth to match. The article notes ants gripping fiercely, heads intact after decapitation, and even torture uses of bites. It also describes harvesting ants with multiple heads in display and Moro natives torturing a captive with ant bites.
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Professor Wheeler
Philippines
Roy Chapman Andrews
This Week
Girl converts prayers to adverting after birth notice
Dorothy hears in the paper about a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Smith on March 7 and decides to stop praying and start advertising. The moment shows a child learning the power of news notices and family joy.
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Dorothy
Dallas Dispatch Journal Formed From Merged Papers
G B Dealey sells Dallas Journal to Dispatch Journal Publishing Company which also buys Dallas Dispatch from Scripps League. Dispatch Journal Publishing starts Dispatch Journal in Dallas on Friday July 1 with no Sunday edition. Incorporators include Karl Hobetzelle Alfred O Anderson and John Moroney. Charter granted in Austin.
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G. B. Dealey
Dallas News
Dallas Journal
Dispatch-Journal Publishing Company
Dallas Dispatch
Scripps League of Newspapers
Dispatch-Journal
Austin
Karl Hobetzelle
Alfred O. Anderson
John Moroney
Too Bad and the Nelson Column Exchange
A visiting American is guided to Trafalgar Square and spots the Nelson Column. The English companion explains Nelson, the man who made England what it is, while the visitor retorts that it’s too bad to blame it all on one man.
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Nelson
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