Cotton Surplus Too Great For War To Boost the Price
The cotton industry faces a surplus that tempers wartime price hopes. H H Williamson notes war has not raised prices. USDA data show 1914-15 prices near 8.5 cents and exports down. World carryover has grown to about 14 million bales, and demand may not rebound despite current war fears.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
New Orleans
India
United States
Parents blame for developing fear in children
Desca Hale of the Extension Service warns that teaching children to fear certain situations fosters long term anxiety. She argues caution should come from understanding environments, not threats, and cites common scare tactics from adults that create unwarranted fear in kids. The piece also notes cotton price dynamics and cropland expansion considerations for 1940.
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Desca Hale
Extension Service
Miss Hale
Jack
Farmer Indicted in Slaying of Wife
Bonham report says W J McCoin, a farmer, was indicted Tuesday for murdering his wife who was stabbed through the heart with a butcher knife on October 6 during a quarrel. Trial set for November 13. Spend your money in Whitewright.
Gas Explosion Damages Howe School Injures Children
A gas leak under a Howe classroom caused an explosion injuring several children. Two were taken to Sherman clinic, others treated by a Howe physician. Investigators traced the break to a damaged gas line outside the building. A ceiling, windows and furniture were damaged and all 400 students evacuated orderly. The incident recalls the 1937 New London blast.
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Sherman
Howe
Jack Calloway
New London
Navy Day program thanks from Navy Mothers CARD OF THANKS
Mr and Mrs G V Ford thank neighbors friends and the fire department for assisting during and after the fire that destroyed their home and for saving their outbuildings Card of thanks notes gratitude to those who offered help and aided in the event
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Navy Mothers
G. V. Ford
German Women Do Men s Work in the Field and Factory
Berlin dispatch notes a shift in German life as women fill roles once held by men. From bus drivers and clerks to factory workers, farm laborers, and office staff, women contribute to the war effort under Nazi leadership. The Reich Mothers Service and the Labor Front organize a vast female workforce as Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia are annexed, freeing men for military duties.
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Berlin
Germany
Tiergarten
Wannsee
Potsdam
Kaufhaus Des Westens
Hertie
Kausfrau
Leipziger Square
Munich
Bosch Magnetofabriken
Feuerbach
Stuttgart
Schloss Solitude
Black Forest
Schiller
Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Reich
Reich Mothers’ Service
German Labor Front
Austria
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
How to reduce by pushing away from the table
Dr. Robert W. Keeton, from the University of Illinois, told the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association that more fat women than men exist and that marriage often reduces activity. He urged firm self-control at meals and claimed effort can help thin. The piece also notes a 30 percent drop in German studies in New York high schools since the Nazis rose to power.
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Chicago
Ill
Robert W. Keeton
University of Illinois School of Medicine
International Assembly of the
Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association of North America
New York
German Women Now Key to War Economy Says Leader
A wartime policy shift places German women at the center of the labor drive. Work camps train young girls for manual labor and field work as men are sent to war. The state imposes strict time demands, complicating childrearing and family life.
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Germany
Reserve Officers To Be Called Under Thomason Act
The War Department will call 377 eligible reserve officers for extended active duty starting December 1, 1939. Forty five of these are allotted to the Eighth Corps Area. Qualified second lieutenants in the Officers' Reserve Corps should apply immediately through their unit instructors at regional headquarters.
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Fort Sam Houston
War Department
Thomason
United States
Eighth Corps
Rail travel fares cut by 5 percent for west of Chicago
Fort Worth reports a 5 percent reduction in round trip coach fares effective December 15. The new rate lowers cost to 1.8 cents per mile, the lowest since 1933 aside from occasional specials. Daggett says the cut applies west of Chicago and the Mississippi River, adopted on Western Association recommendation for holiday travel. A 100 mile round trip in 60 days costs $1.80 under the new plan, with indefinite duration and potential permanence if volume grows.
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Fort Worth
F. D. Daggett
Denver City
Chicago
Mississippi River
Western Association of Railway Executives
Daggett
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Nick
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Whitewright Paint and Paper
Johnnie James
Ben Hall
Sycamore
Denton
Texas
Savoy
J. C. Hicks
Stephens & Bryant
Tom Barbee
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
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A. Y. Creager CO. M. & P. Bank Bldg
the Gay “Handy
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K.wolens Department Stores Stores
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