Vets of World War Die Fast Veterans of World War Die Fast
The piece reflects on World War I veterans and the American Legion as it nears its 20th anniversary in 1939. It compares mortality rates with the Grand Army of the Republic, notes rising deaths among veterans, and discusses factors like war trauma and changing eras shaping veteran longevity. It cites actuaries, Armistice Day figures, and historical contrasts between Civil War and World War I veterans.
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New York
Elmer
Topsy
American Legion
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
Grand Army
Legion
Sherman
Chateau-Thierry
Meuse-Argonne
Handy Man of Denton Helps Pay College Bills
Elbert Roberts, a Blue Ridge sophomore at North Texas State Teachers College, builds income by offering odd jobs as the Handy Man. He does chores from washing dogs to delivering engagement rings and arranging dates, later expanding to a dating bureau and reminders for personal engagements and birthdays.
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Denton
Elbert Roberts
Blue Ridge
North Texas State Teachers College
Roberts
Life Expectancy Gap for World War Veterans
The article compares life expectancy between World War veterans and the general population, noting veterans aged 46-47 die at about 12 percent faster rates. Based on Veterans Administration death records and private mortality data, the 1938 daily death rate for veterans averaged 86 versus 76.8 for peers, implying quicker attrition and predicting declines in veteran numbers by 1959.
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Watson B. Miller
The
Legion
United States Veterans Administration
America
Elmer
Planting Livestock Profits Through Better Pastures and Silos
Permanent pastures and temporary summer grazing are key to livestock profits. Plant lespedera sod bermuda and contour furrows, rotate rests, and use legume crops like cowpeas or soy beans. The trench silo offers reliable year round feed. silage options include grain sorgums and corn with beans, or popcorn, depending on land and rainfall. Plant silage this spring for weather and feed security.
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Sudan
Texas
Oklahoma
Troy Fenner
Troy
Amherst firemen extinguish quiet chimney blaze at Goodhind home
Amherst Massachusetts. Firemen received a written invitation to a blaze at Murray Goodhind's home delivered by his daughter. The note said a quiet chimney fire had been burning since yesterday with water in the cellar and boots needed. Firefighters responded and put out the fire.
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Amherst
Mass
Murray Goodhind
Goodhind
Ann Sheridan Former NTSTC Student in 1930s Denton
A Sherman Democrat clipping recalls Ann Sheridan then Clara Lou Sheridan as a blues singer with Floyd Graham's North Texas State Teachers College band in 1932 33. Described by a reporter as one of a group with “more tricks than a brush salesman,” she was named the nation s number one Comp girl by a panel of 25 men.
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Denton
Ann Sheridan
Floyd Graham
North Texas State Teachers College
Clara Lou Sheridan
Graham
Sherman Democrat
Ann
Clara Lou
Heron Stays Still to Hunt Frogs and Fish
A heron relies on patience and stealth, standing motionless in the water to catch its prey. Its diet centers on frogs and fish, seized with precise, unmoving patience.
Missouri shows nerve on Show Me plan federal funding
Jefferson City Missouri's legislature faced federal demands to revise state social security laws to retain old age assistance and aid to dependent children funds. After months of debate the house and senate reached a conference compromise preserving state control while securing federal support for about 75 000 old age pensioners.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Federal
Social Security Board
Senate
Allen McReynolds
House
McReynolds
Washington
All Your Life The World On Verge Of Falling Apart
A woman writer insists the world hangs by a thread as daily headlines warn of collapse. Her remark frames a pervasive sense of imminent disaster and existential anxiety in contemporary life.
The Next Generation Question Repeats Itself
A remark on generational fate cycles through a conversation. An acquaintance asks what will happen to the next generation. The reply outlines a typical life arc: grow up, work, fall in love, marry, have children, and later worry about the future.
Rides Horse Into Hotel Lobby Stirred By Old Law
In Massachusetts a quirky old statute required hotels to accommodate guests and their horses. A sober man rode a horse into a Boston hotel lobby and, after stable registration, won a court ruling upholding the act as still in force. Other relics include a rule that a car must be preceded by a bicycle and Alaska protections for grizzly bears.
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Massachusetts
Bay State
Boston
Insane Asylum
Alaska
Rankin says Roosevelt can re elect himself or name successor
Washington Representative Rankin of Mississippi told the House that President Roosevelt can re elect himself or name his successor if he expands the currency and raises commodity prices to normal levels. He asserted no president has ever been defeated when farm product prices are high.
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Washington
Rankin
Mississippi
House
Roosevelt
Schumann Quit Law to Pursue Music Career
Robert Schumann, the noted composer, abandoned a career in law to dedicate himself to music, shaping a path that led to his prominence in Romantic era composition.
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Robert Schumann
Law
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