Texas state to buy vast food supplies for wards in 1934
Texas boards seek bids to stock state wards with groceries from September 1, 1934. Contracts cover 16,691 pounds of assorted candies, 217,000 pounds pinto beans, 99,200 pounds blackeyed peas, 166,885 pounds coffee, 3,833 pounds tea, 211 dozen cans chili, 2,154,000 paper napkins, 1,009,015 paper cups and other staples for schools, hospitals, and homes.
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Austin
Army
Navy
Texas
Board of Control
Schools For
Austin State School
Confederate Women’s Home
Abilene State Hospital
Police Radios Held Doom of U S Bandits
Columbus Ohio Thad H Brown vice chair man of the Federal Radio Commission says police short wave stations will spell the doom of banditry in the United States. He notes rapid growth of police radio use in three years and cites Michigan Massachusetts Pennsylvania Iowa and Ohio leading state networks.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
Thad H. Brown
Federal Radio Commission
Brown
Union
Michigan
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Lone Woman Is Survivor Once Texas Bad Town
In old Tascosa Texas a lone survivor is Mrs Mickey McCormick known as Frenchy She recalls the town once a frontier stronghold of gamblers and gunmen She describes Boot Hill where twenty nine men fell and the LIT and Lone Star feuds ending with three Lone Star gunmen killed on March 21 1886 The hill now stands as a memory of the boom and bust of the cattle country with ads urging readers to shop.
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Texas
Tascosa
Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Mickey McCormick
Frontier
Boot Hill
Canadian River
Amarillo
McCormick
Frenchy
Mickey
Old Tascosa
Baton Rouge
St. Louis
Dodge City
Kan
Texas Panhandle
LIT
Lone Star
LST
A Short Sermon On The Kingdom Of God By Rev Ball
Rev S L Ball delivers a sermon on Matthew 6 33 urging listeners to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. He reflects on salvation, goodness, and the duties of Christians to pursue faith and active living amid trials and worldly concerns.
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God
Jesus
Earth
Lord Jesus Christ
Heaven
Christ
Samuel Insull
Justice
America
Young Newsboy Works Hard Carrying Papers
A kind elderly man asks if the boy tire of his load of papers. The boy replies he does not read them, carrying the bundle with quiet humor as they pass.
Jeroboam Chosen King After Solomon’s Rebellion
A Sunday school lesson reviews the divided kingdoms after Solomon. It notes Jeroboam’s rise amid Solomon’s peaceful reign and the northern revolt, with context on Elijah and the eight century prophets. The passage ends by mentioning Bolivia’s rubber forests in the north.
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David
Solomon
Elijah
Isaiah
Jerusalem
Rehoboam
Jeroboam
Ephraim
Ahijah
Bolivia
Locked Car Did Not Deter Auto Thieves
Washington report details two thieves failing to steal a parked car due to a lock. They removed the top four tires the windshield battery part of the motor while leaving the chassis. A quoted quip about a wife’s determination closes the piece.
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Washington
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the Sun
Frank D. Layman
Whitewright, Texas
Rev
S. L. Ball
Southern Ice & Util. Co
W.R. Vineyard
Licle Sam’s Experimental Farm
Reat, OM
Dnce
Kelvinator
Louisiana
Charles E. Dunn
Barracuda Pete
Kirkpatrick
Gomer May
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