Cotton Production Through the Texas Countrys 20 Year Span
The Sherman Democrat traces Texas cotton from missions to 1926 peak and decline, noting vast output, employment, and the Grayson Fannin Collin trio contributing over 342000 bales to state totals. A 20 year table lists yearly bale totals for the three counties from 1913 to 1936.
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Grayson, Fannin, Collin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Grayson-Collin-Fannin
Grayson Fannin Collin
German Farmers Work For State
Berlin reports describe Nazi regime control of farming amid censorship. State police oversee harvesting transporting and storing crops while an agriculture decree requisitions all wheat and rye for the state leaving farmers with only seed for themselves. Fines and prison terms deter noncompliance as Germany contracts for foreign grain to cover shortfalls.
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Berlin
Nazi Germany
Hitler
Advertiser’s Question Wins Laugh in Country Editor’s Reply
A humorous exchange has a would be advertiser asking if ads bring results. The country editor answers with a quip about a lost dog walking in while the ad was being written, underscoring belief in ads' impact.
Government Debt Reaches New High of 41 Billion
Washington report: federal obligations rose to a record 41 billion dollars at Sept 30, with 36.875 billion in public debt and 4.706 billion guaranteed by the government through lending agencies. Since Roosevelt took office, 21.079 billion was appropriated for relief and recovery, 15.965 billion spent, nearly matching the debt increase. The debt stood at 20.3937 billion on March 4, 1933.
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Washngton
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Mr Average Farmer Denton Texas 1935 census figures
The 1935 census shows Texas farms average 275 acres and worth about 5137 dollars. Texas has over 501000 farms totaling 137.6 million acres. Average farm value has remained near 5137 since 1910, with a peak of 8486 in 1920.
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Denton
Texas
New Fashioned Apple Roll recipe revived for old fashioned dessert
A vintage recipe outlines a dessert using apples or berries folded into a rich biscuit dough. It instructs making a sugar syrup, rolling into a log, cutting into pieces, baking in a hot oven, and serving with syrup and optional whipped cream. Variations include cherries and other fruits with adjustments to the syrup.
Autumnal Cookie and Steak Sauce Compendium
A collection of kitchen notes detailing steak sauces and quick dumplings. Includes mushroom onion fry, tomato soup sauce for beef, corned beef hash dumplings, and a rich cookie dough for oatmeal and orange rock cakes with precise measurements and oven times.
Old Fashioned Cakes From Basic Baker's List
A vintage recipe blend for orange and lemon cakes. It instructs creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs, then flour with baking powder and salt, and folding in orange rind and juice. Batter should be stiff, bake in quick oven about ten minutes in greased pans, yielding small heaps.
Almond Oat Cookies From Simple Butter Sugar Mix
Blend softened butter with sugar then beaten eggs and almond extract. Stir in oats with baking powder and salt. Drop spoonfuls onto greased pans and bake about twelve minutes in a hot oven.
Riddle Claims a Math Result A Wrong Answer
A short column presents a playful math exchange. The prompt asks to add 76923 and 81412, then delivers a punchline that the result is a wrong answer, reflecting a humorous puzzle tone from a historical newspaper snippet.
Safety Conference Declares Home Most Dangerous Place
Washington safety conference labels home the riskiest place and nighttime as peak danger. Inventors urged devices: gentle wake light, motion-activated lighting, night ring lamps, and doorbells lighting on. They also suggest smoking in bed should incur tented sleeping away from flammables. Daily 1936 home accident costs run near two million dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Home
Liquor Tax Take Tops Six Hundred Thousand in September
Stein and glass wielders who indirectly foot the bill poured $622,911 more into the liquor revenue till in September. Liquor Administrator Ford said revenue for the first 10 months this year, $5,680,886, exceeded that of a comparable period last year by $1,016,076. In answer to legislators who want to abolish the Liquor Board, Ford pointed out the excess alone exceeded the department's appropriation for the current year.
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Austin
Stein
Glass
Ford
Liquor Board
Ancient Model Car Echoes Familiar Craft
A farmer observes a second-hand car being worked on by a motorist for about an hour. The motorist asks what he is watching, and the farmer replies that the machine resembles the first motor car he ever saw.
Child injured by clothes wringer at Toyah
John Claypool Hosie age three, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Hosie, was seriously hurt when he climbed onto a bench and turned on an electric clothes wringer. He thrust a stick between the rollers after cutting the machine off, causing the injury.
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TOYAH
John Claypool Hosie
Floyd Hosie
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