Home Brewers Warned By Liquor Board
AUSTIN. C A Paxton, chief enforcement officer for the Liquor Control Board, says reports show widespread home brewing of beer and wine. Inspectors found many unaware they violate the law. penalties equal those for moonshine. License ranges from 10 dollars for home wine to 1000 dollars for a liquor distillery. The board cautions there are no special privileges or provisions to be set aside.
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Austin
C. A. Paxton
The
Liquor Control Board
Paxton
Texas
Thompson nicknamed The Rainmaker by supporters in Austin
Friends of Ernest Thompson nickname the red haired gubernatorial candidate The Rainmaker due to a striking run of rain coincidences following his campaign. The unusual sobriquet reflects local nickname culture and weather-linked lore surrounding the race.
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Austin
Ernest Thompson
Thompson Campaign Weathering Rain Deluge in Texas
The report describes Thompson rally crowds dampened by rain across Texas. A Bosque County barbecue drew about 5,000 under muddy conditions on May 7. Thompson persisted through a heavy downpour during a Monday trip to Bee County for a planned barbecue, defying travel obstacles to keep his engagement.
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Thompson
West Texas
Bosque County
South Texas
Bee County
Wheat damaged by hail across Foard County belt
Ten thousand acres of wheat were badly damaged when hail swept a belt several miles wide in Foard County on Monday. Rains reached up to 10 inches in Hardeman Foard and Wilbarger Counties. A farm home was demolished by wind after occupants fled.
Speed trap foiled by boys slow signal
Kansas City police sergeant George McMeachin set up a speed check but spotted cars moving slowly as two boys waved a sign saying speed trap ahead. He explained the laws and sent them home. Sun Want Ad.
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Kansas City
George McMeachin
McMeachin
MacMeachin
Lone Star Gas Wins Supreme Court Rate Case Victory
Lone Star Gas Company clinches its biggest rate case win as the U S Supreme Court sustains a jury verdict that the rail road commission's order cutting rates from 40 to 32 cents per 1000 cubic feet was confiscatory. The decision remands to the Civil Appeals for judgment while noting prior wins in Fort Worth Rhome Wichita Falls Sherman and Oklahoma regulatory matters since 1929.
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Lone Star Gas Company
United States Supreme Court
Texas Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
District Court
Austin
Court of Civil Appeals
Texas
Oklahoma
High Court
Fort Worth
Rouse City
Wichita Falls
Sherman
Cotton and corn loan figures released by CCC
The Commodity Credit Corporation announced loans disbursed on corn through May 19 totaling 20,702,683 dollars on 42,759,025 bushels. State totals include Iowa 24,755,130 bushels and Kansas 25,377 bushels. Cotton loans reached 234,247,279 dollars on 5,362,521 bales, with Texas leading at 1,633,586 bales and Arizona 125,229 bales. Tucson. Arizona, had the first municipal airport.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Small Grayson patch cited as example of food crops profits
Sherman Texas reports W O Teddlie county agent notes a tiny 8 by 11 yard strawberry patch on Mrs H A Goff’s farm yielded 284 pints valued at 28 40. He warns Grayson County farm families grow less pork than needed and urges shifting from cotton to feed and food crops to avoid price slumps.
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Sherman
Grayson County
W. O. Teddlie
H. A Goff
Grayson Farms
Teddlie
Fossil bones reveal ancient West Texas megafauna
Saber-toothed tigers giant camels and large armadillos lived in West Texas more than a million years ago. Fossils found near Northity Canyon near West Texas State Teachers College support early Upper Pliocene creatures never before known in America. Finds include jaguarlike lions horses hyena dogs saber-toothed cats camels giant armadillos giant sloths and coyotes ancestral to modern species.
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Canyon
West Texas
C. Stuart Johnston
West Texas State Teachers’ College
Northity Canyon
America
War Materials List and Senate Mineral Bill
The War Department lists 22 strategic commodities with nine minerals including aluminum antimony chromium manganese mica nickel mercury tin and tungsten. A Senate bill would authorize the Army and Navy to acquire and store up to 25 million dollars worth of war important minerals from imports or new domestic sources. Eskimo pies entered use in 1922.
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War Department
Washington
Senate
Army
Navy
Vaughan for Commissioner Precinct Two
S B Ben Vaughan seeks re election as Grayson County Precinct Two Commissioner. He cites Federal Works program road construction, 30 percent county funding, and a cash basis budget with no tax rate raise. Highlights include 33 miles blacktop and 50 miles rock and gravel completed, six miles more under construction, and 66 miles planned. He praises road network expansion, recreation center upgrades at Loy Park, and ongoing maintenance improvements. He asks for voter support.
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Grayson County
Carpenters Bluff
Loy Park
Texas
S. B
Ben) Vaughan
Charlie McCarthy Named Heir to $10,000 in Bergen Will
Hollywood reports Edgar Bergen left $10,000 to ventriloquist partner Charlie McCarthy in his will. After Bergen’s death the funds go to the actor’s fund with conditions to keep Charlie in good repair and to promote the art of ventriloquism.
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Hollywood
Calif
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
Charlie
Campaign to shelve term housewife for homemaker
New York report says club women push to replace housewife with homemaker in public records. The 66th Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs convention adopted a resolution urging officials to use the homemaker designation. Also notes Victoria’s first packing house in Texas.
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New York
Long Island Federation of Women’s Clubs
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Jim) Waggoner
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E. A
Ed) Miller
J. Benton Davis
John C. Evridge
P. M
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Porter
Harold Doss
Finis Alverson
Walter W. Compton
Bennie
Ben) Ball Tom Brice
David Crosher
Hassler
K. B. Simmons
Mark Montgomery
Justice of the Peace
W. A. Fain
W. H. Horton
Fannin County
Chas. G. Nunn
Hampton Harper
W. R. Vineyard Ice Co
H. T. Atterberry
J. O. Lee
Jack Harper
Whitewright
Floyd Bassett
Allen T. Short
Stewart Warner
Johnson Jewelry
Grayson, Fannin
Collin Counties
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Cay
Tom Barbee
McCormick-Deering
Chevrolet
Manning & Meador
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Mgr
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Charlie M’carthy
Victoria
Texaco
John McDonald
Texaco Service
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