Farming Is Still Big Industry of Prison System
Huntsville prison system farming remains a major economic activity though not as dominant as before. Eleven farms total 73,135 acres with 43,716 in cultivation this year. corn and cotton dominate, gardens expanded by 1,000 acres. All farms operate at a loss for 1935, while industrial operations show a profit. Prison industries include packing, canning, plates, shoe and garment factories, a brick plant, and more, with most sales to internal departments or state eleemosynary institutions.
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Alonzo Wasson
Dallas News
Huntsville
Board of Control
Highway Department
Highway Fund
General Fund
State Farm
Houston
Harlem
Goree
Wynee
Ellingson
Railroad Commission
Paddock
States build 400 miles cotton roads
New York and nine other states report completion of over 400 miles of cotton reinforced bituminous highways funded by a federal grant. The program tests cotton fabric as a reinforcing membrane to reduce wear and improve waterproofing, with eight to ten bales used per mile.
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New York
Cotton Textile Institute
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Jersey
North Carolina
Alabama
Indiana
Virginia
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Arizona
Washington
Maine
Florida
Georgia
Department of Agriculture
South Carolina
Institute
Highway Department
Marinville
Amsterdam
David Noonan
Roosevelts plans for farm tenancy and land ownership
President Roosevelt asked Senator Bankhead and Representative Jones to draft plans to meet the farm tenancy problem. He proposed government financing for tenant purchases and urged early December meetings to complete legislative recommendations. He also named committees for an all risk crop insurance plan and efficient use of Great Plains resources.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Marvin Jones
Texas
Bankhead
White House
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Washington
Great Plains
Dreuth
Congress
Hudson
Ireland
Denmark
Senate Agriculture Committee
Toasting Customs Through History and Habit
A Collier’s Weekly note contrasts drinking toasts from bended knees in seventeenth century England to Scottish custom with one foot on chair and table and British naval officers staying seated to honor the king. The piece ends with an ad line inviting readers to advertise if selling.
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England
Scotland
Collier’s Weekly
Pours Lalli Ate Traians Were Injured Last Year
A fragment cites Travelers Insurance figures showing more than 1,100 killed by stepping out from between parked cars. The tone urges attention to living amid business rush.
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Trians
Travelers Insurance Company
Analysis of vote reveals limited GOP national swing
A New York investment firm’s Brookmire table suggests the Maine GOP lead does not guarantee national victory for Governor Landon. The latest returns show Republicans at 55.5 percent for governor, senator, and reps, 57.9 percent excluding the senator race, 4.8 points below the 62.7 threshold. Typewriter supplies offered at the Sun office.
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Maine
Landon
Brookmire
New York
College of Presidential Electors
United States
Louis J. Brann
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Wales
Life Insurance
First National Bank
NUTS
Lalli
America
Lone Star Gas System
Sun Office
Sinclair Gas
Sinclair Oil
Navy
Sinclair Gasoline
Sinclair Motor
FORD
Chevrolet
Stateville
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