Farm club stories and home demonstration gains across Texas
Reports from Perryton, San Saba, Centerville, Mount Pleasant and other counties highlight 4 H club projects. Irrigation experiments, chicken raising profits, budded peach trees, pasture improvements, silos, and yard landscaping show 4 H youths boosting gardens, livestock, and farm income. Several figures and local names appear, including Mrs. Frank Martin, Doris Reuter, Sam Bar, J. L. Hess Jr, W G Keilers, and C D Stone.
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San Saba
Sam Bar
Sarxa Saba
Regs H. Brison
Brison
Never in America: the danger of the word never
In 1926 two businessmen discuss wealth and risk. One keeps $700000 in moss-back bonds while vowing never to worry. By 1931 his bets fail but recovery returns. The other fears recovery may fail but learns from past overconfidence. The piece concludes that the word never is too large for a big country.
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Onah Jacks
Texas
Jacks
Laughter is Golden at an informal party with Herb Williams
The writer recalls meeting the vaudeville comedian Herb Williams at a casual gathering and shares a heartfelt farewell as they part ways. The brief note highlights Williams' longstanding humor and personal charm observed during the encounter.
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Herb Williams
Undying regard for a grateful customer and the value of laughter
A writer extols grateful customers and the rare ability to make people laugh. He notes a surplus of professionals but a shortage of true comic talent. He recalls Charles Lamb on joys of youth and theatre and urges preserving laughter as life’s golden stock.
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Charles Lamb
Burton couple in Dallas for business and Centennial visit
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burton travel to Dallas this week for Mr. Burton’s business matters and plan a visit to the Centennial before returning home.
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Robert Burton
Dallas
Mr. Burton
Mr and Mrs Troy Carter Visit to California
Mr and Mrs Troy Carter and their children of Wingate left Sunday to visit relatives in California.
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Troy Carter
Wingate
California
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Perryton
Frank Martin
The
Booker Home Demonstration Club
Marie Ludwick
Ochiltree County Home Demontration
Waithe
Waco
Doris Reuter
McLennan County
Mary Inez Scott
Doris
Centerville
Russell Long
Nineveh
Leon County
J. B.short
Long
Mount Pleasant
J. L. Hess, Jr
Old Union
Titus County
Refugio
W. G. Keilers
Refugio County
Keilers
C. D. Stone
Blevins
Falls County
Stone
Sudan
Salaria
Bruce
Barton
Guiflube
Gulflu
Gion
America
Gulfin
Pettechen
Adlerika Smith Drug Company
Standard Savings & Loan Association
W. G. Bedford
Dale Street
Hotpoint
Calrod
Hoint
Thrift Cookef
Cambridge
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