Electors to Decide Texas Presidential Vote in 1932
Voters cannot cast ballots for presidential nominees directly. Texans vote for party electors who meet in Washington to choose the president. Texas gains 23 electoral votes this year, with 266 needed for victory, and ballots list Democratic and Republican electors along with minor parties.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Clark Hoover
United States
Washington
Tilden-Hayes
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Massachusetts
California
Woodrow Wilson
Kansas
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Vermont
Lubbock
Roosevelt
Garner
Hoover
Curtis
Jacksonian
Liberty Party
Fire Disaster of 1938 Devastates Lives and Losses
The 1938 fire killed about 10 000 people, nearly a third under age ten, with two thirds dying in homes. Economic loss totaled 464 million 633 thousand 265 dollars. The message links fire to public ignorance and urges property owners to remove hazards.
Tenement Inspector Finds Four Families in One Room
An inspector discovers four families sharing a single room in New York with chalk lines marking quarters for each. When asked how they get by, a resident replies that they get along fine, except the man in the farthest corner keeps boarders.
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New York
Football Reform Voices Against Big-Vs-Little School Matchups
A Pathinder column criticizes regular big university versus small school football games as slaughter not sport. Swarthmore severed 54 year ties with Penn amid being trampled for big-team practice. Small schools seek duels for vanity, not spectator value, sparking movement to end the practice. England grants 3,000 radio licenses in a recent month.
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Lions
Tomcats
Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania
Pathfinder
Russia to manufacture paper from native grass
The article notes plans to produce paper from a tough native grass species in Russia, highlighting an agricultural and industrial shift in materials science. It mentions other facts such as notable statistics on death rates, legal enforcement concerns, Mohair shipments from Texas, Death Valley’s naming, and ancient Egyptian alimony goods.
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Russia
Chicago
Big Bend
States Ending in A Count Surpasses Forty-Eight
A concise list notes that twenty of the United States have names ending with the letter A. The fact highlights a linguistic pattern among the 48 contiguous states. No further context provided.
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Egypt
Orville Bullington
Miriam A. Ferguson
Miriam Ferguson
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