Low Income Families May Get Cotton Mattresses in Texas
A government program to aid low income farm families with cotton mattresses will be implemented in 12 Texas demonstration counties including Ellis Wise Hockley Collingsworth and Austin. Eligibility targets families with 1939 income under 400, with half from agriculture. Mattresses made in rural centers under Extension Service guidance and distributed via AAA and Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
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College Station
Texas
Mildred Horton
Extension Service
Ellis
Wise
Hockley
Collingsworth
van Zandt
Nolan
San Saba
Rusk
Lavaca
Frio
McLennan
Austin
Home Demonstration Club
Miss Horton
A Scotchman Seeks Medical Help and a Bill
A Scotsman visits a doctor after being urged to seek care. He asks the fee and learns 10 dollars for the first visit and 5 dollars for subsequent ones. He arrives and says preemptively, Well, doctor, here I am again.
Vision Health Notes on Eye Diseases and Preventive Care
The article stresses clear vision as a birthright and notes Texas has many people who are blind or visually impaired. It highlights compulsory prophylactic eye drops at birth, reduced birth- related blindness, and the prevalence of trachoma in children. Emphasis is placed on early diagnosis, treatment, and sanitary conditions to prevent vision loss.
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Texas
Texas Democrats Back Garner for President Nomination
Texas Democratic Executive Committee overwhelmingly endorsed John Nance Garner for the Democratic presidential nomination. The body reaffirmed support for Roosevelt and Garner as the party marks 1938 Beaumont resolutions. Waco won May 28 for the state convention site after bids from Houston San Antonio Austin and Mineral Wells. A sales tax financing measure for social security was rejected.
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Hillsboro
Democratic Executive Committee
Texas
John Nance Garner
Garner
Beaumont
Roosevelt
Frances Edmondson
San Antonio
Edmondson
O. P. Lockhart
Austin
Waco
Chicago
Houston
Mineral Wells
Texas to distribute 20000 quail statewide this year
The Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission will distribute about 20 000 quail obtained from Mexico to sportsmen and others who pay half the cost. The department is also planting several thousand birds on quail restoration areas funded by Pittman Robertson money, with over fifty areas established and more to come this year. Cover and food improvements are expected to sustain stock on remaining areas.
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Austin
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Game Department
Mexico
Texas Department
Pittman- Robertson
Division of Wildlife Restoration
State Game Department
Texas Receives Large Quail Shipment From Mexico For Restocking
The Uvalde Leader-News reports over 100,000 Mexican quail will pass through Laredo Del Rio and Eagle Pass on the way to restock programs. Texas Game Department will receive 20,000 at 69 cents each from a historically low price, while other states pay up to 1.30 per bird. The trapping uses a V shaped brush fence and a ten foot wire funnel to drive quail into crates for transport.
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Texas
Uvalde Leader-News
Laredo
del Rio
Eagle Pass
Texas Game Department
Mexico
United States
Fisherman Lands Unusual Catch During Cast
S. L. Davidson of Bay City aimed at flying fish in Mexico when his lure struck mid air. He suddenly hooked a jacksnipe passing by, witnessed by partner Sims McDonald, in a rare mid cast incident.
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S. L. Davidson
Bay City
Sims McDonald
Fort Worth Anglers Club adopts fishing law resolutions
Resolutions urging longer closed fishing seasons in Texas and other sportsmen matters were adopted at a recent Fort Worth Anglers Club meeting, a group believed to be the largest in the state.
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Texas
Forth Worth Anglers Club
Texas Sportsmen Club Calls for Freshwater Fish Closed Season
A Texas club with 700 members urged a three month closed season for all freshwater fish from February 15 to May 15. They also called for a ban on commercial fishing in fresh waters, reduced creel limits on game fish, and anti pollution laws with enforcement provisions.
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Texas
Sign of Economic Recovery as Debtors Promise to Pay
A commentary notes cautious signs of improvement as individuals who previously failed to meet bills begin promising payment. The piece reflects on consumer confidence and ongoing financial strain amid the recovery phase.
Pilgrims tale prompts student joke about a car
A teacher asks what the Pilgrims did after a year of good crops and settlement. Bobby replies with a humorous twist that they bought a car, illustrating a light classroom moment.
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Bobby
Black man lists wife and six children as property
In Spartanburg South Carolina Auditor Harold Murphy received a tax note on a blank return claiming the writer is a black tenant with no real estate but listing personal property including one automobile one mule two pigs some chickens one wife and six children as liabilities and property.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Harold Murphy
National Gallery visit prompts quick portrait talk
A school teacher takes his class around the National Gallery remarking that Joshua Reynolds could alter a smiling face with a single brush stroke. A young pupil adds that his mother could do the same.
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National Gallery
Joshua Reynolds
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LaRoe’s
L. LaRoe & Co
Wicker
Arora
MU Commun. Service Company
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