The Preachers Column Urges School Support and Leadership
The article discusses upcoming North South world series under lights, praises local players like Bagley Christian Ross and Hampton, and emphasizes school funding and community leadership. It calls for united effort from home church and citizens to back teachers and leaders for a strong school system.
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South
Fannin County
Bagley
Christian
Ross
Hampton
White Sox
Pastors Sermon Schedule and Annual Report Emphasis
The pastor will preach at both hours Sunday with services at morning and evening. The evening service begins at 7 45 PM. The public is urged to hear the annual report read Sunday morning and learn what has been accomplished in the last associational year.
Odd Accidents Across Regions Include Fire and Lightning
A Nebraska fire started by sunbeam on a floor match badly damaged a home. An explosion from a sour cream can injured William D. Stitzel. A PA man was killed by lightning while resting. his son was stunned. A Maryland driver hit a tree avoiding a black cat. a New York driver plunged into the East River. A Florida fisher faced a shark stealing a tarpon.
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Nebraska
Tom Minden
William D. Stitzel
Pennsylvania
Grant Humbert
Clarence
Maryland
Robert Ogden
Robert E. Walsh
New York
East River
Chet
Florida
Pellagra Claims 645 Texan Lives Last Year
Doctor John W. Brown reports six hundred forty five Texans died of pellagra in the previous year. Symptoms include sore mouth stomach trouble and skin changes. Disease not contagious and prevention rests on a proper diet with milk meat vegetables tomatoes whole wheat products salmon yeast and fresh fruit.
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Austin
John W. Brown
Fair angler wins battle capturing shark and tarpon
The story notes a successful angler who landed both a shark and tarpon. A fire incident followed when a mattress saturated with gasoline exploded, nearly destroying a basement while Mrs. Lillian Hair watched. A separate accident involved a brushing pin that pierced an eyeball but left sight intact.
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Lillian Hair
Washington
Fun With Figures Reveals Family Size Trick
A playful arithmetic trick hides the total number of a person’s living brothers and sisters. By following a sequence of doubles, additions, and multiplications, the final three digits encode deaths, sisters, and living brothers respectively. The method ends with subtracting 150 to yield the left middle and right figures.
State reports 1933 34 deficit totals and calls
Texas treasury announces an aggregate general revenue deficit of 13 530 813 for 1933 34, with 5 867 747 in red in general revenue and 4 511 762 in the Confederate pension fund and 3 151 304 in the school fund. The school fund unpaid per capita scholastic apportionment is 2. A call of 594 436 in general revenue warrants was issued to May 11 1934, with new call number 139 302. The treasury will buy February 1934 Confederate pension warrants if not discounted and will take February 1933 warrants regardless.
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Austin
Texas Treasury
Treasury
Youthful Russia Leads World in Population Under Twenty
A 1920s study shows Russia with about 49 percent of its people under 20, while the United States drops from 1850 levels to about 38.8 percent under 20 by 1930. It notes shifting age structure, possible stabilization, and broader implications for policy and economy. France, England, Germany, and Austria also trail.
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Russia
United States
Japan
Italy
Australia
England
Wales
Germany
Austria
France
Community News Requests Cooperation for Local Happenings
The Sun invites readers to share any visitors, visits, parties, or other news items. It aims to publish community happenings and asks for cooperation to inform the newspaper of local events.
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the Sun
Rich Farmer Blames Blindness on Curse in Wisniowiec
In Wisniowiec Poland a wealthy farmer Trosim Kanteiga went blind after a drunken encounter with a beggar. He attributed the loss to a curse and described the beggar’s warning as prophetic. The group then rode a taxi home where Kanteiga collapsed.
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Wisniowiec
Poland
Trosim Kanteiga
Kanteiga
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