The Glow Worm Spring School Notes and Activities
The Glow Worm reports on Grammar School activities in agriculture and home economics. Students planted shrubs and flowers with donations from local teachers, learned manners, read Little Women, and enjoyed nail manicures. Bell Telephone visitors demonstrated early telephone tech, and sport by grades included baseball softball and rope games. A bridal shower for Mrs Alexander occurred April 26 after her marriage on April 23. The piece closes with poems praising spring and a mother’s remembrance.
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Lloyd Alexander
Mrs. Alexander
Three Men Will Die For Crimes
AUSTIN The State Pardon Board refused clemency for Henderson and Roscoe Young and Paul Layes, all sentenced to execution. Henderson is 18 and Roscoe 19. Layes faces death next Tuesday for a night assault on Longview mayoral figures. The board affirms guilt, cites revolting facts, and rejects youth as extenuation.
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Austin
Henderson
Roscoe Young
Paul Layes
Henderson Young
Longview
Court of Criminal Appeals
Century Bullet Train Hits 120 MPH Test Run
The New York Central Railroad to replace the Twentieth Century Limited on the New York to Chicago run starting June 15. A test between Elkhart Indiana and Toledo Ohio covered 124 miles in 67 minutes averaging 120 mph, far above the current Century which runs 70 to 80 mph. Sun Want Ad promotes the launch.
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Toledo
Ohio
New York Central Railroad
Century Limited
Elkhart
Ind
Barber offers shop to relief recipient finds no takers
In Phoenix Arizona barber E B Bridewater offered to turn over his shop to any man who had been on relief four years His experiment drew no applicants He kept running his small shop and violin teaching He said the offer would prove men can support themselves with initiative and energy
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Barber
Phoenix
Ariz
E. B. Bridewater
Bridgewater
Lynch Found Guilty of Firing into Pastor Home
A District Court jury in Palestine found Bill Lynch, 30, guilty of shooting rifle bullets into the home of Rev. Calvin Nelson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in October 1933. Lynch was sentenced to ten years in prison for the alleged murder attempt as the pastor and family slept at midnight. The indictment stated he fired with intent to kill the pastor, who had spoken in favor of prohibition before a local beer election in Anderson County.
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Palestine
Bill Lynch
Calvin Nelson
First Baptist Church
Lynch
Prohibition
Anderson County
Manual Clinic Helps Couples Cut Business of Divorce Lawyers
San Francisco hosts a marriage counseling center that seeks to prevent divorce by directing couples to consults rather than courts. The 1928 institution reports 161 cases last year, with women more likely to seek help. Grant, its director, notes sex problems as a primary driver of unhappiness, plus finances and control. The center offers two interviews per spouse and joint sessions, plus lectures and library activities.
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San Francisco
United States
Henry M. Grant
Grant
G. V. Hamilton
Origin of Bagpipe Origin debated as nations claim it
Representatives from different nations discuss the bagpipe’s origin. An Irish reply humorously claims Ireland invented it and sold it to Scotland as a joke, noting the Scots still take the joke seriously.
Grazing Subsidy Plan Announced in Grayson County
Ranchers in Grayson County may earn 50 cents to 10 dollars an acre under the AAA soil building subsidy by filing a 1938 range conservation application before May 15. W O Teddlie says signing the form grants eligibility for practices like contouring terracing digging wells or building an overground pool.
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Sherman
Grayson County
AAA
W. O. Teddlie
Teddlie
I. W. Duggan
Billion-dollar rat costs cited at Texas planning meet
Maj. E. A. Wood told a conference that the nation spends about 250 million dollars yearly to feed its rat population at an estimated two dollars per rat. He added property damage by rodents was valued at 2.5 billion dollars.
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Austin
Maj
E. A. Wood
Texas Planning Board
Leslie Holland Pledges With Trojans at Teachers College
Leslie Holland, a sophomore from Whitewright, is among fourteen men at North Texas State Teachers College in Denton who have pledged to the Trojans.
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Leslie Holland
Teachers College
Denton
Whitewright
North Texas State Teachers College
Temporary Job First Housewife Strike Joke
A brief humor item shows two housewives reacting to a husband returning to work after two years. The joke hinges on the husband having gone on strike this morning, highlighting a light domestic quip about employment and labor.
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