About Your Health Austin Insects and the spring insect surge
The article warns of a wet spring increasing mosquitoes and flies in Texas. It notes breeding in marshes stock tanks and trash, highlights 500 encephalitis cases near Plainview last summer, and urges sanitation plus targeted insecticide use. It discusses insect history, resistance to DDT, and a 1942 development. It ends advising readers to contact local health departments for insecticide guidance.
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Austin
Gulf Coast
West Texas
Earth
United States
Plainview
Rise Bill Exchange Sparks Lighthearted Banter
In a playful moment, Sam questions what disease could be enjoyed, and Bill jokes about the mumps causing a swell time. The exchange highlights a lighthearted pun among friends.
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Bill
Sam
First to start the five day week joke
A light exchange about the origin of a five day workweek. Van asks who started it and Tom guesses, Van cites Robinson Crusoe as the one who had all his work done by Friday.
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Van
Tom
Robinson Crusoe
Spice of Life Oddities and a New Year’s Day Roundup
A shaky patron on New Year’s Day recalls paying with a $100 bill and a big tip for drinks. A father seeks Steve Jones at a fraternity house and is guided by a sleepy upstairs voice. A pest exterminator jokes about free advice and wooden nickels. Vignettes courted by misheard lines include clothing charges on Dad, maid and mistress etiquette, balloon requests, and cocktail party misdirections.
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Prise
Steve Jones
Neighbor taunts small dirt-smeared boy over soil bank debt
A neighbor jeers at a dirt-smudged boy asking if he is overdrawn on the soil bank loan. The exchange captures tense community notes on poverty and restraint.
Witty Dispatches and Jokes From Military and Social Circles
An American diplomat returning from a country behind the Iron Curtain explains how Russians misinterpret OK and Okie Dokie. A chatty town woman admits she cannot predict her words before speaking. A government bureau newcomer boasts of infallibility until discovering he was mistaken. A father visits his son on a college town evening.
Publisher invites corrections to any erroneous reflection
The note states that any defaming or inaccurate reflection about a person, firm, or corporation will be fully corrected once brought to the publisher's attention. It emphasizes prompt remedy and accountability for published statements.
Bumper Texas Cotton Crop Expected in 1957
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research forecasts a bumper 1957 cotton year in Texas due to favorable spring moisture and strong irrigated production. Planting largely complete in the Lower Rio Grande Valley with major strides in the Coastal Bend and other regions. Acreage allotments total 7.563 million, with Soil Bank participation altering harvest patterns from 1956. The High Plains region dominates output, irrigating the majority of its cotton, while Texas remains the nation’s leading cotton producer.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Rio Grande Valley
Bend
South Central
Trans-Pecos
Bureau
Soil Bank
High Plains
U. S
Untitled remark at evening ends with a joke about wife
A man at the close of the evening joked about his wife saying she was so tired she could hardly keep her mouth open.
Temperance twist halts drinker in hotel incident
A traveler orders a whisky and soda but leaves after spotting a painter at work on a ladder. The painter retrieves the glass as the customer is president of a temperance society, while the barman objects. England taxed babies in 1695.
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England
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