Adair Murder Case Again On Fannin Docket
The Adair murder case likely to come up at the October term in Fannin County with a fourth possible trial. Cecil Adair is charged with killing neighbor Rolf Butler near Butler’s home ten miles north of Bonham about five years ago. Rogers libel suit against American Publishing Company for 50000 may be heard again, Rogers having lived in Austin while suing from there.
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Adair
Fred S. Rogers
Rogers
Fannin County
American Publishing Company of
Austin
Platform compared to bunker by rival statesmen
A statesman quips that a party platform is like a golf bunker: required by rules, yet the skill lies in avoiding it. The exchange underscores politics as strategic maneuvering amid formal constraints.
Texas Deaths In Past Year Reach Nine Thousand Eight Hundred
The census bureau reports 58 915 Texas deaths in 1933 with a death rate of 9.8 per 100 000. Infectious diseases caused 11 221 deaths led by tuberculosis 4302, influenza 2588, and typhoid measles and diphtheria about 600 each. Circulatory diseases caused 8 638 deaths. heart disease 7 944. Digestive diseases about 6 000 with 1 862 in children under two from diarrhoea and enteritis. Violent deaths total 5 722 including 964 homicides and 1 292 automobile accidents. Cancer killed 4 100, stomach cancer 766. Other categories include nervous system 4 708 and respiratory 4 658. ill defined causes 1 690. A note on orange juice fudge appears at end.
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Washington
Texas
Census Bureau
Texas relief board to set food cost index
The Texas relief administration will compile a state food cost index led by consultant dietician Mrs. Helen S Swanson. County admins were sent a list of seven food groups and asked to obtain prices from two wholesale firms one urban home owned store one urban retail chain and one rural store.
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Austin
Texas Relief Administration
Texas
Helen S. Swanson
Central Christian Church to elect elders and plan Easter services
Central Christian Church urges all members to attend a 10:45 morning meeting October 21 with elections for elders and deacons and a plan of service leading to Easter. The 7 PM evening sermon, The Promise Made Unto the Fathers, questions Jewish and Gentile roles in the Coming Kingdom and asserts Christ as the Messiah.
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Central Christian Church
Zion
Jesus
Christ
God
G. C. Minor
Children’s Church Plans Meeting and Red and Blue Contest
The Children’s Church gathers at Central Christian Church next Sunday October 21 at three o’clock with Hugh Tim Atterberry as preacher and Bettie Nell Yeager and Azilee Smith singing solos. The Red team leads Blues in the ongoing contest and a turkey banquet will be served November 24. Deacons for October are Ann LaRoe and Norma Jean Blanton.
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Central Christian Church
Hugh Tim Atterberry
Bettie Nell Yeager
Azilee Smith
Ann LaRoe
Norma Jean Blanton
G. C. Minor
Watch swallowed claim fails to show on X ray
Miss Tarzana Nichols, a trapeze performer, believed she had swallowed her wrist watch and asked for an X Ray at a hospital. She said she sometimes places valuables in her mouth at night. The X Ray did not reveal the watch, which she reported missing since Saturday.
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Kansas City
Tarzana Nichols
Gossip Exchange Between Mrs Brown and Mrs Green
A fragmented dialogue shows Mrs Brown and Mrs Green sharing a tangled secret. Each accuses the other of repeating information, revealing a cycle of talk within a small social circle.
Black Draught Claimed To Ease Headache From Constipation
Mrs J A Hightower of Carthage Texas says Thedfords Black-Draught relieves her sick headache caused by constipation. She uses a dose at onset of headache and notes rapid relief after years of use. The advertisement touts Black-Draught as a dependable laxative.
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Thedford
J. A. Hightower
Carthage
Texas
Apricot Cream Pie With Chocolate Swirl
A dessert recipe outlines making a thick apricot custard, then a whipped cream topping with melted chocolate swirled through. The filling uses apricot pulp, milk, sugar, flour, egg yolks, butter, and a baked crust, finished with vanilla cream and a marble chocolate finish.
Date Bran Muffins From Old Recipe
A home baking method uses white flour bran and sliced dates to make twelve to fifteen large muffins. The recipe combines flour soda baking powder salt bran eggs and molasses with melted shortening, then bakes at 425 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
Old Fashioned Gelatin Mold Dressing Sandwiches
A recipe fragment describes dissolving gelatin in water with salt vinegar and sugar, cooling to thicken, then adding chopped cabbage sweet pickles and pimiento and poured into a mold. Chill until firm unmold onto lettuce and top with dressing for serve.
Bran Quick Bread Instructions
A simple quick bread method uses bran soaked in milk before mixing with flour salt baking powder sugar and butter. Combine dry ingredients cut in butter then fold in soaked bran. Roll to half inch thick bake twelve minutes at a hot oven about 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
Creamy Chicken Rice Dish with Parsley Garnish
Melt butter and blend with flour then add milk and stock to form a creamy sauce. Stir constantly and add green peppers pimientos celery parsley paprika salt and chicken. Cook two minutes then pour around rice in a shallow dish. Garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Chocolate Cookie Dough Mixing and Baking Instructions
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and melted chocolate then beat two minutes. Stir in sour cream vanilla cinnamon salt and dry ingredients. Chill dough. Scoop portions onto greased sheets three inches apart. Bake twelve minutes in a moderate oven.
Ham and Vegetable Custard Cups Bake in Water Bath
A recipe combines chopped ham celery green pepper parsley and onion with salt paprika egg yolks milk and butter. The mixture fills buttered custard cups and bakes in a water bath for thirty minutes, then unmolded serves with creamed peas.
Relish Gelatin Salad Recipe Fragments
A fragment notes a gelatin salad with lemon flavored gelatin half package two thirds cup boiling water two tablespoons vinegar and two tablespoons sugar. The text ends abruptly without complete instructions.
Simple Rice Pudding Bake
Three eggs and two-thirds cup sugar with two cups milk and vanilla. Salt and two-thirds cup boiled rice join the mix. Add two tablespoons butter, bake fifty minutes in a very slow oven. Cool and chill. Serve plain or with cream.
Highway Bermuda Grass Fight Reaches Court
In San Antonio, Guadalupe farmers seek court action in the Court of Civil Appeals to force the highway department to dig up Bermuda grass planted along a highway. The case centers on the department’s prior use of the grass and its impact on local farming.
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Bermuda
San Antonio
Guadalupe
Highway Department
Court of Civil Appeals
Department
Farmers Lose Bid to Halt Highway Grass Planting
The Texas farmers sued to stop the Seguin to San Antonio highway grass planting claiming it harms cotton and corn. The district court ruled against them and the appeals court set Oct. 31 for a hearing on reinstating an injunction and digging up existing plantings.
Theatre Clerk and Bank Clerk Exchange Tickets for Cash
A bank clerk and a theatre clerk strike a deal trading tickets for cash. The exchange suggests an ongoing informal barter, highlighting mismatched wage expectations and mutual interest in favors.
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Fannin
Mangrum Grocery
Old Line Legal Reserve
Old Line
Texas Insurance Commissioner
Republic Life Insurance Company
Dallas, Texas
Sherwin
Whitewright Lumber Co
Relief Board
Children’s Church
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Ashmore
Sporting Goods
Sherman, Texas
West Side Square
Seguin
Commission
Jas. D. Buster
Sherman
Reeves
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