A. M. To Enlist 100000 Farmers To Live At Home
College Station Texas A and M extension plans recruit 100000 farmers as live at home missionaries in 1933. Mission led by H M Williamson and Mildred Horton with county agents to boost self sufficiency. 1932 counts show vast canning and curing of pork beef and vegetables, with 2,122,603 quarts of meat canned and tens of thousands of hogs butchered and cured.
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College Station
O. B. Martin
Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Federal Farm Land Bank
Texas
H. Williamson
Mildred Horton
Martin
Parade of Disasters and Deaths Across Historic Events
A compact timeline lists multiple calamities with high death tolls including the Titanic disaster and the Battleship Maine explosion. Names and figures appear in a rapid sequence reflecting historic tragedies across years and places.
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Palm Beach
San Francisco
Maine
Ohio State Penitentiary
Kanes
Democrats Claim Spoils In Choice Of Office Space
Washington bulletin reports moving day on Capitol Hill as Senate Democrats claim control of preferred offices. Desks, phones, and staffers clash in a hectic scramble as 59 Democrats relocate to new quarters, while carpenters repair floors and corridors.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Senate Democrats
Senate
Robinson
Arkanagas
Aihier
Moses
New Hampshire
Capitol
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
William Gibbs McAdoo
Senator Copeland
New York
Wisdom Nuggets From A Chinese Almanac In Shanghai
From a Chinese Almanac published in Shanghai these sayings offer guidance on charity humility restraint and future focus. Quotes advise seeking help from churches while serving others keeping silent to protect reputations and balancing thoughts to avoid a troubled evening.
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Shanghai
Susan Simpson Slocum and Stephen Slocum Engagement Query
A playful exchange depicts Susan Simpson and Stephen Slocum with talk of marriage as Susan signs sketches and seems shy. The piece frames a potential union while mixing alliterative lines. Separate note cites mortgage totals for farm and real estate nationwide surpassing 44 billion.
Whitewright Election To Choose Two City Commissioners
Texas Grayson County Whitewright to hold election on first Tuesday in April 1933 at city hall election room. Two two year terms for city commissioners to be filled under state general election laws with Ben Savage presiding judge J W Henry assistant judge and O W Myrick J W Hollingsworth as clerks. Attest Jesse Wallace city secretary.
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Texas
Grayson
Whitewright
Ben Savage
J. W. Henry
O. W. Myrick
J. W. Hollingsworth
F. M. Echols
Jesse Wallace
Treasury issues bank regulations to date
Washington reports a summary of Treasury Secretary issued regulations including permission for banks and reserve banks to make changes without gold, open safes, return unentered items after hours, cash government checks withholds, accept payments, support food movement, reopen for unrestricted new accounts, complete pre March 4 checks, release securities, pursue usual essential banking, collateral deposits for foreign branches, issue clearing house scrip, normal fiduciary practices with some withdrawals restrictions, and reserve banks acting as federal fiscal agents in securities exchanges.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Crossword Wisdom From Roosevelt Era
A traveler recalls meeting an older associate in Chicago who, after a failed contract bid, relaxes by solving a cross word puzzle. The anecdote frames comments about Franklin D. Roosevelt and Colonel Louis M. Howe, noting Roosevelt’s fondness for puzzles and problem solving as marks of a capable leader.
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Chicago
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Louis M. Howe
Mr. Roosevelt
Howe
Washington
White House costs near four hundred seventeen thousand
Roosevelt will have about 417000 a year to cover salaries, maintenance, and a 48 member special police force, with a fleet of 11 government automobiles. White House expenses average around 125000 for maintenance and 120000 for salaries, while the highest level was 445693 in 1931 32. The national income last year stood at 56000000000.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Secret Service
Hoover
Coolidge
Congress
The Telephone: A True Story of Everyday Value
Twenty four hours a day the telephone is ready for calls from doctors to pricing eggs and cream to ordering machine parts or visiting neighbors. The piece highlights the phone as a small cost with great utility in daily life.
Presses Run On Three Shifts At Money Printing Bureau
Washington reports three shifts operate at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to speed the production of Federal reserve notes from $5 to $10,000. The March 4 order from the Federal Reserve Board increased output while visitors watch the process day and night. A geography lesson in the room amid towering stacks and a ceiling-high shelf of currency echoes the bustling scene.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Bureau
Baked Indian Pudding Sparks Civility Debate Abroad
An elderly English traveler complains about seeing baked Indian pudding on a Southern U S bill of fare asking if such items fit a civilized country. Her remark underscores cultural differences noted during their journey with her husband.
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Bryant
R. R. Waldo
Jim
Jimmy
James Browning
Missouri
Frank Goteh
Browning
Lewis
Madison Paar Garden
Susan Simpson
Stephen
Susan
Planters
Planters Gin Company
Tom Lilley
The
First National Bank
Kimbell Milling Company
Ford Hatchery
R. D. Ford
R. L. Johnson
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Treasury Secretary
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Immy Ratliff
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Doctor Quick
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Horace
Europe
Wrth
Asia
Pennsylvania
St. Joseph’s
Nicholson
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