Use Of Hard Liquors Drops In Texas Revenue Report
State Treasurer Lockhart reports variations in Texas habits and finances for the year ending Aug 31 1939. Liquor receipts fell by 136 848 from 1938 to 3 553 078 while beer dropped to 1 873 909. Cigarettes wine and other taxes yield near 13 million annually. gasoline tax totals about 51 million with allocations to schools and debt retirement. Note paper tax adds 429 345. Fraud evasions prompt Comptroller Sheppard to tighten enforcement.
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Austin
Texas
Lockhart
Treasury
Treasury Department
Highway Department
Sheppard
Porters News Rainy Saturday and Sunday social visits
The report records a light rain Saturday afternoon and multiple social visits. Mrs. Mattie McCord, Mrs. Etta B. Hicks, Gladys Mae Hicks, and others are mentioned visiting friends and relatives across Porter, Greenville, Bonham hospital, and Taylorville over the weekend. Families, guests, and visitors are listed with brief hometowns and kinship.
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Mattie McCord
Jim Laughlin
Etta B. Hicks
W. C. Anderson
Gladys Mae Hicks
Ector
Ina Lee
Sarah Hicks
Marvin Chapel
C. E. McCord
Greenville
Jim Hicks
M. L. Williams
Lora Cooper
Lonnie Redman
Athe Bonham Hospital
R. E. Bowden
Charlie Rogers
Baby
Taylorville
Claude McCord
Lynn Cooper
M. M. Cooper
Commissioner Honored With Dinner At Ector
Ector celebrated Monday night the completion of a blacktop road running north and south through town. Commissioner Dick Waits received a testimonial dinner with Mayor Joe B. Hrdlicka of Bonham as principal speaker. Ector Parent-Teacher Association members served the dinner at the gymnasium. The paved road was completed Saturday.
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ECTOR
Dick Waits
Joe B. Hrdlicka
Bonham
Parent- Teacher Association
Prison Rodeo Opens Sunday October 1 at Huntsville
The Greater Ninth Annual Prison Rodeo kicks off Sunday October 1 at Prison Stadium and runs four Sundays. Improvements promise the fastest wildest show yet with a double chariot race using mad Brahma bulls and clowns driving. Ten inmate riders will compete in a bareback wild mule race. Other events include saddle and bareback bronc riding, calf roping, goat roping, bulldogging, and steer riding. Musical support comes from the Prison Military Band, the Rhythmic Stringsters, the Southland Songsters, and the Cotton Pickers Glee Club.
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Huntsville
Prison Stadium
Albert Moore
Texas Prison System
WBAP
Southland Songsters
Cotton Pickers Glee Club
Want Ads And Notices From Ely And Whitewright Area
Classified briefs list items for sale rent and notices. Pears for sale at 40 cents a bushel near Ely. church rummage sale Bay building near Barbee Bassett. reduced prices on paint and wallpaper at Whitewright store. six room house and 2 1 2 acres for rent near Whitewright Medlintown. used Frigidaire and Philco radios at Johnson Jewelry. funeral designs from HaileGreenhouse call 227. dwelling and farm of late Miss Dora Scales see Henry Chaney Bonham. several Whitewright dwellings and farms for sale via Stephens Bryant. scholarship in Tyler Commercial College or trade for other item. mules for sale by Manning Meador.
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Dora Scales
Henry Chaney
Bonham, Texas
No Negro Officials Since Poll Tax Law
In Texas history a Clint variable recount shows that from 1870 to the early 1890s Negroes served in the state legislature. E R Lindley notes that the 12th Legislature had two Black members from Brenham Galveston Houston Marshall and Huntsville. The number peaked with two senators and eight House members. After the 24th Legislature a Brazoria County Negro won an election contest as the last on record. The Terrell election law in the 27th Legislature ended Black representation. Also cited: 1937 motor fuel tax revenue across 48 states totaled 627 million dollars.
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Austin
E. R. Lindley
Texas House of Representatives
Brenham
Galveston
Houston
Marshall
Huntsville
Brazoria County
Lindley
Desperate thefts blamed on money mania in New York
A Bellevue Hospital doctor frames shoplifting as a money hunger phobia, noting cases from a counterfeit nun to an actress stealing auto parts. The nun’s mother of two businessmen faced a reprimand and suspended sentence, while the actress remains at large, lifting lighters, screws, and other detachable car gadgets.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Brooklyn
Woman’s steady work masks a complex drive
A woman works tirelessly and rarely earns under $400 weekly. The behavior is not driven by money or need, but by deeper factors. A physician familiar with her case attributes this pattern to early inhibitions shaping her actions.
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Christian Science Monitor
Monitor
Wallace pleads against profiteering in war effort
Secretary Wallace urged leaders of the farm food and clothing industry to cooperate with the government to prevent profiteering during the European war. The appeal came at a meeting of the Agricultural Advisory Council, a group of 30 farm and business leaders.
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Washington
Wallace
Agricultural Advisory Council
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T. W. Ayres & Son
Carter’s Underwear
Gossard
Paul Owen
Ely
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Central Christian Church
Bay Building
Barbee & Bassett
Whitewright Paint and Paper
Johnnie James
Whitewright
Medlintown
R. A. Vestal
Philco
Johnson Jewelry
Stephens & Bryant
Tyler Commercial College
John Price
Manning & Meador
Tom Barbee
Les
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Magnolia
G. C. Stateville
Sun Office
Yeager
Sinclair Gas
Sinclair Oils
Ford
Yeager’s Service Station
Christian Science Publishing Society One
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
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