Health Hints Urges Clean-up Week in Texas
State Health Officer Dr. Geo W. Cox urges a statewide April 3 to 10 Clean-up and Paint-up Week led by the Health and Fire Insurance departments. He links sanitation to preventing typhoid, dysentery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, and malaria by removing waste, proper garbage storage, screens, and eliminating mosquito breeding sites.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Texas State Department of Health
The
Fire Insurance Department
Texas
Live At Home Program Urged For Farmers
Texas Extension Service Director H Williams urges a farm to kitchen program to raise farm families’ nutrition. He notes 11 million Southern cotton dependents and a 1938 goal of 10.6 million bales, with gross income around 250 dollars per cotton- dependent family. He adds that home production would require millions of cows chickens hogs gardens orchards to meet diet needs, though not directly increasing cash income.
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Texas
Department of Agriculture
Department
H. H. Williamson
Texas Extension Service
College Station
1938 Winter wheat forecast near 659 million bushels
Chicago private crop experts estimate 1938 winter wheat at 650 to 668 million bushels. The two forecasts average 659 million, down 26 million from 1937 but 30 million above USDA Dec 1. Historical context shows prior yields and five year average for comparison.
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Chicago
Ill
H. C. Donovan
Tomson & McKinnon
Nat C. Murray
Clement, Curtis
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Not Always to Blame in a Telephone Misunderstanding
An Englishman speaks on the telephone introducing himself as Mr Arrison and struggles with hearing the operator. He enunciates letters and sounds to convey his name and a few words, highlighting the difficulties of spoken communication over the line.
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Mr.Arrison
Arrison
Hess
Cassidy
Training Teachers to Detect Eye Difficulties in Reading
North Texas State Teachers College in Denton offers a spring reading course with a diagnostic lab to train teachers to spot eye problems that hinder reading. Under Miss Nellie Griffiths, the program includes telebinoculars and ophthalmograph demonstrations to assess eye movement and visual skills, guiding referrals to specialists as needed.
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Denton
North Texas State Teachers College
Nellie Griffiths
Texas
The Spice of Life and Quick Wit Around Town
A collection of short anecdotes features a memory trainer salesman, a naval drill joke about pedaling, a music lesson with God Save the King, a gasoline substitute shoe leather gag, and a tractor sale with a surprise payment reply from a southern farmer.
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the King
Begging Beginnings and Schoolyard Hockey Etiquette
A truant officer questions Corky about playing hockey at school while the boy quips about living and letting live. Mrs Chuzz teases John about beginners luck, recalling the early, happy weeks of marriage in a light domestic exchange.
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Little Corky
Vitamin B-1 linked to infantile paralysis urges early civilization note
The March of Science notes vitamin B-1 prevents nerve disorders and infantile paralysis, compares the condition to beri-beri, and discusses early agriculture in Mesopotamia and India. It covers the spread of food production, domestication, and river valley centers shaping civilization ending with Europe’s 200-year science era.
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W. J. McCormick
Toronto
Journal of the
Canadian Medical Association
McCormick
Asia
Persia
China
Europe
Mesopotamia
India
Hwang Ho
Atlantic
Euphrates
Tigris
Japan
Philippine Islands
C. Stuart Johnston
West Texas State College
Canyon
Muffin Shortage Sparks Muttered Kitchen Exchange
A domestic scene shows Bridget telling her mother there are no muffins in the house after a sharp rebuke about breakfast. The exchange highlights family kitchen dynamics and a moment of humorous frustration.
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Mistress — “Bridgett
Bridget
Back Seat Driving At The Sewing Machine
A husband admonishes his wife at the sewing machine warning about speed and danger. The wife sounds puzzled as she concentrates on the seam and keeping the corner straight. The scene captures a domestic moment of wary assistance and anxious carefulness.
Ivory and bronze meet at hotel lobby in ivory carver reveal
A group of professional men gather in a hotel lobby and introduce themselves by craft. Fortesque says he paints in water colors while another is a bronze artist and a sculptor. The quiet man reveals he is a college professor who works in ivory.
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Fortesque
Ivory
Slow Train
A long cross country journey includes a ticket check where a passenger notes a boy is too big for half fare. The reply hints the boy was small at the start, suggesting a humorous travel anecdote.
WPA couple involved in Richmond car collision
Ben H. Jones a WPA worker owns a car and collided with another vehicle in Richmond. The other driver was Mrs. Jones also on WPA payroll. She had her husband summoned to court on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
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Richmond
Calif
Ben H. Jones
WPA
Mrs. Jones
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Geo. W. Cox
Pascal Farley Whitewright
Whitewright Lumber Co
John Corcoran
Maine
Moose River Junction
Sam
Cornell University
BLACK
Sun Office
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
K-B Poultry Feeds
Kimbell’s
Kimbell Milling Co
Briant
Mayflower
L. LaRoe & Company
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