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Newspaper
Bowie Booster
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1935
Page
3
The Bowie Booster card lists publication details for a Texas paper dated Oct 1 1922. It notes second class matter status, post office routing, pricing for three months and locals per line, and a policy for correcting any erroneous reflections brought to the editor's attention.
Austin remarks by Dr. John W. Brown stress quarantine and isolation as essential but still needed tools to curb contagious diseases like diphtheria and smallpox. The article notes public attitudes vary from cooperative health mindfulness to evasion, with focus on preventing spread in schools and homes through vigilance by teachers nurses and health officers.
State warns against paying fees to unscrupulous agents posing as Old Age Pension helpers. Officials report many requests for application blanks and contact names, urging residents to wait for designated agency and current procedures. Legislature is drafting pension provisions but no agency is yet authorized.
Six people from Bowie and Leona communities each guessed Tex the steer’s weight within five pounds at the Bowie Fair last week. A $2 prize awaited the correct guess, but none matched the animal’s actual weight among several hundred guesses.
A weight guessing contest lists entrants and guesses for Tex the ox. Participants include Wincey Sanders RL Pennell K A Willis T J Wright Dr E W Wright and Mrs S M Dorman of Leona all predicting 2150 pounds with several 2140 or 2150 replies and a $200 prize share noted.
A satirical note claims the cure for a man’s itch to seek office is to scratch him at the polls and jokes that unmarried women oppose taxes on bachelors, suggesting harsher punishment as a remedy.
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