Texas Five Year Auto Toll Tops Seven Thousand Nine Hundred
A Texas five year auto toll ending December 31 1936 records 7798 deaths from traffic accidents. Officials warn the Frankenstein like automobile defies control while safety drives statewide push for more patrolmen and stronger campaigns to curb speeding drunken driving and mechanical faults. Local cities join state efforts to educate and reduce fatalities.
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Texas
State Department of Public Safety
State Highway Patrol
Albert Sidney Johnson
Governor's Safety Commission
Mail carrier finds clock at rural box near Christoval
Rural mail carrier R. W. Ackew spots a flag on a mailbox at Christoval and discovers an alarm clock inside with a note asking to set it. Ackew complies. Whitewright merchants offer you better values.
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San Angelo
R. W. Ackew
Christoval
Ackew
Whitewright
Trunk No 75 swindle hooks Galveston customs
A Texas swindle blends mystery money and a faux senorita around Trunk No 75. The tale lured victims across cities from Los Angeles to Milwaukee, with a grocer paying 4000 dollars for a non existent trunk said to hold 175000 and a banker’s daughter awaiting rescue.
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Galveston
Los Angeles
Laredo
Mexico City
Houston
Cotulla
Mayville
Mich
Monroe
Texarkana
Milwaukee
Sam T. Zinn
Arizona
Zinn
Tampico
Senorita
Puebla
Mexico
Bank of London
Roosevelt urges nationwide soil conservation laws
President Roosevelt called governors in all 48 states to adopt standard state soil conservation acts creating local districts to run erosion control projects. Plans include terracing dikes ditching reforestation and planting soil binding crops. Noncompliance would be a misdemeanor under federally funded programs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Soil Erosion Service
Congress
Wallace
Punctuation in a Nutshell Mouse learns punctuating tricks from school
A child Bessie tells her mother she has learned punctuation. She explains that to mark exclamations you place a hatpin after Hark and to form questions you add a button hook after it. The mother replies with gentle amusement.
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Bessie
Third Term Rumors Opined by Roosevelt
New York Arthur Krock reports Roosevelt told friends he hopes to begin solving deep national problems immediately after leaving office in 1940. He dismisses third term plots as misconceived and says democracy must be saved using American institutions and bold actions.
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New York
Arthur Krock
New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Buchanan
Lincoln
Krock
Supreme Court
No Spinach Beans Says F D R Wants New Deal on Food
Washington reports a White House food dispute as Franklin D Roosevelt refuses spinach and calls for a new menu plan. Cooks and Mrs Roosevelt review cookbooks to please the president who complains about broiled calf liver and green beans and seeks more greens, less meat, and fewer desserts.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Campaign Candidate Confronts Editor Over Truth
A political candidate bursts into a newspaper office and accuses the paper of lies. The editor replies that they print what they know and questions what the candidate would do if the truth were published. The exchange highlights tensions between press and campaign rhetoric.
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Kimbell Milling CO
Hugh Trotter
The
Whitewright Sun
Grayson
Fannin
Collin Counties
Collin County
Sun
Whitewright, Texas
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