What Going Off Gold Standard Means To Farmer
The article explains Roosevelt's move to end the gold standard, aiming to raise prices and inflation. It discusses effects on foreign trade, farm incomes, debtors versus creditors, and potential future steps like currency actions and restoring silver as money. It notes the farmer would gain from higher crop prices and easier debt repayment in cheaper dollars.
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United States of America
United States
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Banks
America
South
Texas
Fire destroys Ely school house shocking town
After days of rain the Ely community faced a fire that consumed the old school building. Dolph Henry spotted the blaze and it spread to Charlie Ross’s hay, but was contained. Loss included Nelson’s room books and cards while Miss McLean mourned missing papers. Communities gathered for a brief program at Enterprise church after the alarm.
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Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Charlie Cates
Ely
Dolph Henry
Charlie Ross
Mr. Nelson
Miss McLean
Ely School
Enterprise Church
Nelson
Bonham
John Hughes
Trenton
Finis Patridge
Paul Taylor
M. F. Clark
Roland Blanton
Canaan
Ernest Bailey
Odell
Charlie Phillips
Enterprise Community
Poetically Frail Humor Comes Through the W H S Reflector
AContinue from page 3 entry shows a playful verse mood with lines about tenderness and poetry. The piece includes a comic exchange between Jack Louis and his father on authorship as a man who supplies ideas from head to fill the stomach.
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Jack Louis
Lost Carnival Queen Plot Drives High School Play
In Homecoming Week at Sylvan College a senior class play directed by Miss Gladys Ray and senior sponsor Miss Dorothy Tapscott was staged in the high school auditorium. The plot follows Lotus Leary misidentified as a carnival queen and destined to be crowned until a sequence of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements unfolds.
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Gladys Ray
Dorothy Tapscott
Sylvan College
Lotus Leary
Joe
Fredericka
Lotus
Ann Day
Dayton Dean
Princess Aimee
Phantasia
Tom Waggoner
Mandy
Bobby Byrnes
Polly Pryor
Leroy Montague
John Chester
Sally Sylvester
Patricia Page
Frances Montgomery
Mary Jo Sears
Barbara Barrington
Frances Pope
Joe Thomas Meador
Raymond Willis
J. B. Harrison
Linda Lee Sylvester
Sally
Elizabeth Keeling
Dick Montgomery
Ross Wilson
Edna Earle
Emma Claire Vestal
Frances Hedgpeth
Noel Ashinhurst
Ross Reynolds
D. E. McCoy
Lois Smith
Maurine Pierce
J. M. Dixon
N. B. Nicholson
Princess Aimee of
Mae Myrick
Agnes Coffey
Luna Mae Garner
Dorothy Medearis
Marie Foster
Sarah Janway
Billie White
Dee Robbins
Frank Clark
Pierrette—Maurine Pierce
Gladys B. Ray
Luna Garner
Pauline Magers
Free rent for newlyweds boosts Genoa marriage drive
Genoa authorities launch a wedding incentive plan to encourage marriages. Half the rent for young couples marrying this year will be covered by the city treasury, and when the first baby arrives the city will pay an entire month's rent. The groom must show the marriage certificate countersigned by the celebrant to obtain the concession.
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Genoa
Italy
If It's Serge Try Ink Bright side to everything quote
The Boston Transcript notes a reflective line about Serge and ink, contrasting a long worn suit from 1931 with a lack of joy in the shine. The brief observes a terse, wry sentiment about enduring style and sentiment in a clipped cultural moment.
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Boston Transcript
Grammar School Honor Roll For Fifth Period
The fifth period honor list includes first through seventh grades with named students from various classes. Notable names appear across all grades, including John Biggerstaff and Christine Gladden among others.
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Grammar School
John Biggerstaff
Eudell Bush
Dorothy Douglas
Cecil Magers
Edward Blair Montgomery
Herbert Birchfield
Martha Louise Vestal
Charles Skaggs
Azilee Smith
Jack Ward
Wallace Reeves
Robert Lee Owens
Edith Harper
Ben Robert Jones
James Stateville
Ann la Roe
Marjorie Montgomery
Billy Harper
James Bow
Anna Johnson
C. B. Bryant III
Fred Cook Jr
Billy Lanius Kincaid
Davis Parrish
Emerson Sears
Mary Frances Clabhorn
Grace Harris
Billy Jack Harper
Harold Pace
Morris Fogle Gillett
Mary Edna Cox
G. W. Ford
Mary Alice Harrison
Margaret Coffey
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Dale King
Marie Badgett
Alma Joe Sanderson
Jack Smith
Jack Wallace
Joe Looney Gailey
Hub Delay Myrick
George Hansard
J. B. Smith
Drunette Farley
Frances Riddle
Imogene Head
Iona Bush
Claire Doss
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Evelyn Hill
Madene Evelyn Vineyard
Martha Jo Darwin
Lenora Thrasher
Christine Gladden
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Geraldine Garner
Rudolph Taylor
Houston Darwin
Charles Harrison
J. W. Jones
Bubbles Ford
Helen Clabhorn
Claude Burchfield
Luther Guy Hagard
Ruth Vestal
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
J. D. Bush
Lyndal Bush
Fred Coley
Sarah Belle Gillett
Roy Martin
Boyd Newman
Aileen Pennington
Jo Willa
Daylight Saving Time Takes Effect Across Regions
Daylight saving time became effective Monday with clocks moved forward one hour. Eastern Standard Time now reads two hours ahead of central time, though the practice was not widely used in rural areas. Chicago chemist Dr. Max Nevus, after 50 years studying beer, declares the 3.2 percent brew now legal is the perfect beer.
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Max Nevus
Chicago
School sprinter injured in fire from pocket items
Robert Mitchell, a Mina high school track sprinter, fell during a sprint and started a small fire when a match in his back pocket ignited two combs. The blaze burned the side of his leg and left him seriously burned.
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Adrian
Mina
Robert Mitchell
Real Sleuths House Search Reveals Hidden Items
The police inquiry at the home uncovered items including a front door key hidden by the wife a penny stamp lost weeks ago and four collar studs. The subject stated the search was fine with no issues arising from the police.
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