Golden Age in Texas Farming Ends, Warns Bromfield
Ohio author and conservationist Louis Bromfield told 1,500 Northwest Texas farmers at Wichita Falls that Texas’s agricultural golden age is over. He urged soil fertility protection, warned of overgrazing, and promoted higher yields through better land management and cheaper crops to raise profits. He cited Malabar Farm and European farming successes to illustrate sustainable farming, stressing preservation of soil, forests, and water to avoid decline.
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Wichita Falls
Louis Bromfield
Texas
Bromfield
Malabar
Ohio
Europe
America
Africa
Roman Empire
Fort Knox
Cracks At The Crowd and the Rich Brother
A fragmentary item describes a visit to a wealthy brother who delays entertaining family members. The narrator notes sitting in a car all day while the rich brother attends to business and fails to grant time or attention. It ends with a reflection on money and spending and a jab at Mrs. Ultra’s broad mindedness.
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Seads
Illinois cats banned from roaming under new bill
The Illinois Legislature voted to curb roaming cats citing harm to songbirds. If signed by Gov Adlai Stevenson the bill imposes penalties and makes cats public nuisances with a $1 ransom for caught pets. Existing laws targeted stray dogs only.
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Springfield
Illinois
Adlai E. Stevenson
Divorce and tax foreclosure citations for Grayson County
Multiple court citations issued April 1949 in Sherman and Collinsville outline cases including John B Murray vs Ruth R Murray for divorce on cruel treatment, Johnnie Opal Dederick vs Tom Z Dederick for abandonment, and The State of Texas vs E I Bruce et al for delinquent property taxes on Collinsville properties with foreclosures and notices to adverse claimants.
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A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Johnnie Opal Dederick
Tom Z. Dederick
S. V. Earnest
State of
Ruth R. Murray
John B. Murray
S. W. Earnest
Nancy Drake
State of Texas
Grayson
American Asbestos Products Co
Cities Service Oil Co
A Corp
Fairbanks-Morse & Co
Ben E. Keith Co
Linz Bros
H. J. Heinz Co
L. M
C. C. Collins
Collinsville
Waldo
E. I
Bruce
District Court
15Th Judicial District
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Ultra
Pearl
The
Orient
A Isel
Ine
Shanghai
Toyland
Home Demonstration Club
Women’s Auxiliary OF
A. B. Jones
Hi-Way
Childress
Pharmecy
Roy Taylor
Philips
Fone
Judy Canova
Heddy Hopper
Dorothy Dix
Orenduff
Jane
John
Gene Autry
Katy
Pappy
Rochester
Walter Winchell
John Q. Publick
Uncle Sam
Johnson
Olive Grimm
Sigers
Perry Kite
Dean Alexander
Prilla Hinton
Jane Meador
Ed Badgett
Chester Slaughter
Tex Moffett
Chas. Jones
Paper Boys
First National Bank
Russell Summers
Nancy Holland
Jerry Norris
Jack Meador
Maurine Tillett
S. T. Montgomery Jr
Jack Thrasher
Marie Hood
Ray Vestal
Floyd Bassett
George Burleson
Earl Blanton
Claud Phillips
Whitewright
Manfacturing Co
Lester Haile
Kimbell
Whitewright, Texas
Stateville
Trenton
Dennison
Maud Kretsinger
Station
KRRV
Margaret Hanna Melton
du Pont Paints
Blanton Home
Goodrich Tires
Bassett
Farm & Car Tire Headquarters
Taylor
ICE House
Barker's Dairy Products
Mrs
Lee Norris
Tillett
AUTO
Babcock
C. J. Meadow Truck
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