Roosevelt seeks cuts to curb federal spending budget balance
President Roosevelt pressed Democratic leaders to cut unnecessary federal outlays to balance next year's budget. Congress faces 7,750 million in cash outlays, with 1,500 million relief funds, 350 million CCC, and 200 million rivers and harbors measures eyed. House action on the relief bill slated for Thursday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Civilian Conservation Corps
Post Office Department
Cummings
Rayburn
Texas
House
Typhoid Takes 400 Texans Each Year
Austin health officer Dr. Geo Cox calls typhoid a national disgrace and outlines impact in Texas. He notes about 400 deaths and 4,000 illnesses yearly, with six weeks average illness and 168000 days lost, and advocates vaccination, clean water and milk, proper sewage disposal, fly control, and carrier awareness to prevent spread.
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Austin
Geo. Cox
Texas
Rumors of West Texas Secession Reach Texas Legislature
Fort Worth Star Telegram reports renewed whispers of splitting Texas into a West Texas state. Proponents cite oil and mineral rights, tax shifts, school funding, and highway needs as core reasons, with past vetoes and regional protests cited. West Texas officials urge redistricting and a broader autonomy amid pending land and tax bills.
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West Texas
Austin
Texas
Republic
United States
Brownwood
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
West
Panhandle
Odessa
Department of Education
Davis Senate
Big Bend National Park
Ewing Thomason
el Paso
Congress
Clint Small
Amarillo
Allred
Wichita Falls
W. B. Hamilton
J. C. Hunter
Abilene
Sugar Shock Therapy Shows Hope for Insanity
Reports from the American Psychiatric Association meeting detail insulin induced sugar shock as a potential treatment for dementia praecox. Bellevue Hospital physicians describe careful monitoring as patients undergo transient unconsciousness with risks of vein collapse, but no deaths in fifty cases. Remissions and recoveries tally varied across ongoing trials in Omaha Baltimore and other centers.
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Pittsburgh
Manfred Sakel
American Psychiatric Association
Sakel
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Karl M. Bowman
Bellevue
Bowman
Long-ago Southern Etiquette Echoes From McKinney Ex aminer
A reflective vignette recalls 19th and early 20th century manners, from sack candy with groceries and sock giveaways to strict curfews and hoop skirts. It notes social rituals, Sunday churchgoings, and tight community life as recalled in a Sun newspaper note about typewriter carbon sales.
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McKinney Examiner
Bicycle sales pitch shocks wary farmer
A shop assistant pushes a bicycle to a farmer with promises of low cost and utility. The farmer counters that he'd rather invest in a cow, joking that riding a cow would be less foolish than milking a bicycle. The humorous exchange ends with no sale.
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James V. Allred
Texas A. & M. College
Byron C. Utecht
Fort Worth
Star-Telegram
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First Nat’l Bank Bldg
Omaha
G. Alexander Young
M. D
Richard H. Young
Baltimore
Solomon Katzenelbogen
Herbert Harms
Dean A Clarck
The
Sun
Typewriter
Rexall
Grain
Lester Haile
Richt
Kelvinator
Frigerator
Reah
Zommun) Public Service Company
Alert
Ea Tereandager
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