I Give You Texas Interviews A McAllen Friend
The column features Ho mer Leonard of McAllen on radio chat and includes Texas political notes. It quotes Speaker of the House jokes about Missouri Ozarks and recounts scenes from a cabin water stop and a barefooted woman remark. It notes officials like Crozier and Morgenthau roles and mentions Coke Stevenson praised by Sulphur Springs News Telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Leonard
McAllen
Missouri Ozarks
Mr. Speaker
Harry Benge Crozier
USO State Publicity Committee
Morgenthau
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Sulphur Springs News-Telegram
Sanger urges Southwest birth control to cut infant deaths
Margaret Sanger appeals to Arizona New Mexico and Texas residents to start community programs to reduce infant mortality. She cites 1940 rate differences with Minnesota Oregon and Connecticut and argues for hospital maternity centers clinics and birth control information for low income mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Oregon
New Mexico
Southwest
United States
Margaret Sanger
Arizona
Texas
Children's Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Connecticut
Sanger
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Gallup
Tramp printers once heralded Missouri springs in rural notes
The Kansas City Times recalls the vanished wandering pressmen who drifted into Missouri country offices each spring and autumn. They traveled by freight, slept on newsprint, carried a New York Times, and often left without a trace after brief stints writing editorials and poems for local readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Gordon Hudelson
Missouri Notes
Kansas City Times
New York Times
Chicago
New York
Boston
San Francisco
Dry town poets and the road-weary outliers
The article recalls itinerant workers and alcohol addicts in a dry town, noting their brief stays, productivity as laborers, and rapid exits on press day. It reflects on their appeal, transience, and the fading fascination as these figures disappear from rural journalism.
FIGHTING AT 50 000 FEET
The article discusses Boeing Flying Fortresses operating at higher ceilings from 30 000 feet toward 50 000 feet and beyond. It describes advantages of high altitude bombing in weather, sighting accuracy, and low antiaircraft effectiveness while noting extreme cold, low oxygen, and life-support challenges for pilots and crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boeing Flying
Exchange Notes Rising Lethal Risk At High Altitude
A terse exchange comment indicates conditions worsen at 35 000 feet and signals a call for higher level steps.
Trace History of Shaving
An overview traces shaving from antiquity to modern times, noting early razors in bronze iron and copper, Pompeii finds, sharpening methods, and the shift to steel Damascus quality blades. A final humorous exchange contrasts neighborly etiquette with a light domestic quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbridge J. Casselman
Scientific American
Casselman
British Museum
Pompeii
Greece
Corpuscles Determine Blood Type Not Plasma
The passage explains separating blood into plasma and corpuscles, noting plasma is the liquid part after centrifugal removal of corpuscles. It describes powder plasma made by drying liquid plasma for long storage, mixed with sterile water to reconstitute, and notes the Red Cross collects 11,000 units in New York district for transfusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
New York
Worthless Employer and Applicant Exchange Witty Reference Joke
A job interviewer asks for references and the applicant reveals he tore them up. The employer calls it foolish, but the applicant argues the references wouldn’t have helped if read.
Determined Individual and the Lesson on Bill Collectors
A father explains to his son that a bill collector is a person who blends business with pressure. The exchange frames debt collection as tough work and imparts a cautionary view of how demands can feel coercive.
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Boyce House
Floyd Studer
Amarillo
Panhandle
Mexico
Cortez
Mexico City
John Doe
Doe
Bruce Melvin
Office of Price Administration
Cornell University
Melvin
Lon Boynton
Paris
The
Echo
the Sun
U.S
Childrens’ Bureau
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Nat’l Bank
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
A. Y. Creager CO
M. & P. Bank Building
Sherman, Texas
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