Local notices and market notes in Whitewright Sun
The Whitewright Sun lists advertising rates for notices of entertainments box suppers and benefits with admission charges. It notes corrections policy and publisher accountability. Regional milk price reports from Pittsburg Gazette and Sherman Democrat discuss butterfat prices. Roger Babson predicts Roosevelt’s reelection. Continuous publication every Thursday.
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Pittsburg
Camp County
Texas Milk Products Company
Sherman Democrat
Creamery Trust
Texas
Commissioner Vaughan Earns Praise for Precinct Two Work
The commissioner is commended for attention to Precinct Two and for a road building program that balances both small and large voting districts. He followed a contrarian political approach yet maintains broad constituency support by listening to community needs and carrying out the people’s wishes.
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Ben Vaughan
Vaughan’s road work highlights precinct fairness and vote routes
The article lauds Ben Vaughan for addressing Tom Bean Howe road needs with a new blacktop from Tom Bean to the precinct line, noting his fair approach despite opposition in the primary. It cites the four and one-half mile limit to Highway 75 at Howe and comments on political dynamics shaping funding and labor contributions in Sherman and Van Alstyne areas.
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Vaughan
Tom Bean-Howe
Tom Bean
Ben Vaughan
Howe
Sherman and
van Alstyne
Marriage Certificate Advice From West Texas Justice
Bonham Favorite notes a justice of the peace in West Texas prints a marriage certificate slip urging absolute fidelity as a lifelong jewel. The piece argues such reminders come too late amid Reno divorces and roadhouse marriages, delivered only after marriage.
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The
Marshall News
West Texas
Hollywood
Bonham
Landon Queried Over Cuts and New Deal Plans
The New York Post posed 7 questions during Gov Landon’s East visit about spending cuts, relief, military budgets, government salaries, aid to farmers, TVA abolition, a federal sales tax, monopolies like AT&T, disbanding New Deal agencies, federal insurance on bank deposits, and changes to the tax system with emphasis on how Kansas exemptions compare to federal rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Landon
New York Post
Governor Landon
American Telegraph and Telephone Co
HOLC
WPA
PWA
Kansas
Warning to motorists in Georgia court ruling
A Georgia Court of Appeals decision reinstates a child injury suit after a driver failed to stop for a child darting from between parked cars near a school. The ruling emphasizes motorists must take special care on streets with many children and anticipate sudden crossings.
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Court of Appeals
Georgia
Graham Leader
Farm products bring higher August income across regions
The Department of Agriculture reports larger August cash income from principal farm products in four of six regions, with increases of 30, 27, 26 and 17 percent. Declines occur in South Atlantic and South Central regions due to reduced cotton and tobacco marketing. National August income is 637 million dollars, eight-month total about 4.472 billion, with only Kentucky and South Carolina showing year-to-year declines.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
West Central
East North Central
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
South Central
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Nevada
Kentucky
South Carolina
Nail Fastening Brings Quick Healing For Thigh Bone
A new operation nails together two broken parts of the femur near the hip to speed recovery. Dr. M N Smith Petersens of Massachusetts General Hospital reports patients walk in four to five weeks versus six months with a plaster cast. The rustless steel nail joins the fragments and need not be removed after healing.
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Philadelphia
American College of Surgeons
M. N. Smith-Petersen
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Smith-Petersen
Government Spends 44 Million on Texas Camps
Washington reports 76 804 men enrolled and 44 920 000 dollars spent in CDC activities in Texas up to Oct 1. Texas camps housed 16 455 men on Aug 13 with an average 11 416 at work in August. Emergency Conservation Service cites camps in operation this month across soil conservation, state parks, military reservations, forests, and related sites. Completed work includes erosion control on 132 535 acres, 39 197 check dams, 2 818 283 sq yd seed and planting, 1 895 833 sq yd bank sloping, 22 dams, forest improvements on 101 216 acres, 28 669 000 trees planted, and 3 380 miles of trails and roads.
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Washington
CDC
Texas
Emergency Conservation Service
Soil Conservation
State Park
Military Reservation
National Forest
State Forest
Reclamation Bureau
Resettlement Clients To Be Dropped In Grayson County
Grayson County Resettlement Administration will drop about 25 percent of its 408 clients this year due to unwillingness to work or disregard for obligations. Loans will continue for farmers needing help to stand on their own, with refinanced old clients, and community loans ongoing.
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Evans
Grayson
Texas
Landon Blood Transfusion Story At Luncheon
Mrs. Alf Landon recounts a Chicago family transfusion during a sister’s illness. A brother donated blood and joked she now carried Republican blood, urging her to vote for Landon at a women’s luncheon.
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Peka
Kan
Chicago
Alf M. Landon
Bonus bonds cash redemption tops seven tenths of total
Treasury data show more than 70 percent of veterans bonus bonds redeemed for cash. Of $1,775,006,000 issued, $1,273,272,000 cashed with $80,553,208 in checks. Total veteran cash outlay since June 15 reaches $1,353,825,208 as 3,396,464 of 3,397,511 applicants have received bonds.
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Washington
Treasury
Stranger asks price of cow at the farm
A cautious farmer questions whether a stranger asking about his cow is the new assessor or if the cow was killed on the railroad, as the visitor inquires her value.
Flour Adulteration Alert Warns of Worm-Infested Flour
The Texas Health Department warns dealers and mills about adulterated flour sold as reconditioned product. Officers cite the law prohibiting sale of filthy or unfit food and detail penalties. Inspectors may prosecute adulterators and seize reconditioned flour.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Health
Division of Food and Drugs
F. D. Brock
Brock
State Health Department
Catskill Mountains Joke Gaffe Noted in Local Banter
A humorous exchange recalls the Catskill Mountains when a speaker asks Sambo if he has seen them. Sambo replies he has seen them kill mice, reflecting local vernacular and the era’s regional humor without graphic detail.
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Catskill Mountains
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Miller’s
O. K. Laundr
East Texas
Lour
Orghur
Joc
Pascal Farley
Economy Headquarters
Landon Querried
Catskill
What
Lem Tittsworth
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Conoco Service Station
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