Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Doctor's death his widow returned to Freeport. So far as local people know Mrs. Levingston died without revealing her husband's identity...
...noted with interest the story of the death of John D. Rockefeller [TIME, May 31], especially the paragraph telling of his father. You might be interested in this bit of local Freeport history...
...year or two the Doctor was known to be very ill and when local newspaper men called they couldn't get any news. The Doctor died soon, his body was taken out of the house by night and buried or shipped away, from Freeport before any word of his death was given to the public...
Attempts were made to mail food and clothing into the plants. Local postmasters refused to accept such parcels on the ground that they were "unusual" shipments and the Post Office had for "30 years" had a rule against making unusual shipments in troubled areas. Steel company officials then charged that a parcel of medicine for a man in one of the besieged plants was opened and sent on its way only after two union leaders had passed upon its contents. To Postmaster General Farley, Republic sent a vigorous protest...
...celebrate the "natural or man-made resources of East Texas," among which are oil, roses, yams, timber, tomatoes, ribbon cane. Last year, the News claimed the world's record for a daily's volume with 350 pages. Last week its East Texas news, boosting editorials and local advertising swelled up to 370 pages, a new high...