Newport News Visit Highlights Broom Farm Improvements
A Newport News reporter toured J. W. Broom’s farm three miles north of town noting his status as a leading truck farmer with vegetables for the market. Broom showed repairs to a 56 year old two story home, added porches, repainted, and discussed berry yields from dewberries and blackberries, and crops of blackeyed peas, corn, cotton, with potatoes and Irish seed left out this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Broom
Newport
Broom
Wold Pioneer
Ed’s Rustic Property Additions and Local Rodeo News
Ed builds a stone barn with cow stalls and bins, a stone garage and washhouse, a large chicken house, and a shaded oak lawn on a hillside, with well water and rural electric lights. Newport rodeo feeds a crowded Saturday, amid rugged bucking bulls and mules, rain ending the show. Reverend Baxter to preach in Newport. Obituaries note Mrs. Mary Jolly and Miss Mattie Wright with long memories. A Newport wedding unites Lorene Lemons and Harrell Copeland at Joy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda
Bowie News
Newport Free Rodeo
W. A. Nelson
Jacksboro
Arch Hicks
M. L. Holt
Rocky Point
Newport Rodeo
Miss Mattie Wright
Newport
R. L. Patterson
Joy
Branch
P. S
Mattie Wright
Methodist Church
Postoak
George Wright
Ferguson family backed by national defense push
Political advertisement by Miriam A Ferguson extols the Fergusons as experienced wartime leaders ready to guide Texas through two stormy years. It links them with President Roosevelt and emphasizes patriotism, national safety, and proven service in World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Fergusons
Miriam A. Ferguson
Social Notices From Mount Tabor And Wichita Falls
Mallard and Mrs Miller visit Mount Tabor relatives while Starr Mann and family spend time with J H Holland and kin. G L Parr hosts an ice cream party for her brother with Parr and Wood families attending plus Mrs Jordan and lookeba Oklahoma trip for J H Holland. Jones and James exchange a sharp mock about truth and lies in the street talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Miller
John Tompkins
Mount Tabor
Starr Mann
J. H. Holland
G. L. Parr
Marvin Parr
Nocona
Clifford Parr
A. P
Stomach distress relief promising Adla tablets
C. S. Gross reports stomach pains eased after taking Adla tablets and says he can eat anything. Adla is offered with a money back guarantee at your drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Gross
Local Visits and Family Ills Highlight Weekend
Mrs Pearl Kinses and children visited her mother Mrs H W Doan Friday. Miss Clara Belle Scarbrough of Wichita Falls visited her parents the L G Scarbroughs over the weekend. Mrs H W Doan has been ill for several days. L G Bearbrough was in Wichita Falls on business Thursday and Friday. Several community members attended a ball game at Meunster Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jolly
Newport Union
Rocky Point
Mary
Gus
Gus Jolly
Bowie
Mother Jolly
Mrs. Jolly
Pearl Kinses
H. W. Doan
Clara Belle Scarbrough
Wichita Falls
L. G. Scarbrough
L. G. Bearbrough
Meunster
Card of Thanks for Sister’s Illness and Death
Card of Thanks from the Wright Children expresses sincere appreciation for kindness and sympathy during their sister’s illness and death. The message thanks those who sent floral offerings and asks heaven’s blessings for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright Children
Adlerika advertised to relieve pressure from stomach gas
An ad from G. O. Slaughter & Co. and Griffin's Drug Store promotes Adlerika to relieve heart pressure caused by stomach gas from constipation. It claims the product cleans out both bowels and includes purchasing details for the two pharmacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Slaughter & Co
Griffin’s
Noah Floated a Company Before the World Liquidated
A Wall Street man tested clerks with a business knowledge exam. One question asked who formed the first company. A clever youth answered Noah floated a company while the world was in liquidation and passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Noah
Also Mentioned on This Page
Newport News
Eddie Rodgers
Buffalo Springs
J. Zen Taylor
Snuffy Hamilton
T. H. White
Drew Crane
Lester Staley
Alvin Brownlow
Athens
Froggie Wood
H. B. Hamilton
Jake Jordan
Bull
J. W. Morrow
J. N. Morrow
Lewis Holt
J. H. Wily
Dollie Easly
Chester A. Baxter
Fruitland
Baptist Church of
Mr. Baxter
B. L. Bates
S. R. Estes
Smith Wall
Wall
Ava Palmer
Olivier Palmer
Blach Mansfield
Charlie Kibler
Less Brown
Ethel Jolly
John Rhodes
Prospect
J. W. Jolly
Bellevue
Geo. Carsey
Newport Cemetery
Burgess Funeral Home
Doyle Wright
R. O. Wright, Jr
Henrietta
Junior Spradlin
Denton
Clark Cleveland
Los Angeles
Calif
Walter Ray Barker
Fort Worth
John George Shipp
Grady Hill
A. Dunlap
S. Webster
Alvin Spradlin
Esterline
Hellen Barker
Byron Cleveland
Hollis
Okla
Will Wright
Shamrock
R. O. Wright
Bluegrove
W. L. Wright
Henry Spradlin
Jessie Barker
O. M. Shipp
Fred Warren
Snyder
Maud Rider
Tom Coplin
Lois Ferguson
Horace Green
Roy Tackett
Sibyl Wright
Gainesville
Annita
Edgar Spradlin
Adeen
Lacy Phillips
Lawrence Shepherd
Houston
Henry Spradlin, Jr
Windell Cleveland
Glenn
James Huskey
Port Arthur
C. J. McMahon
Little Son
Fort Wort
West
Edward Hunter
George
Floyd Jolly
Joe Jolly
Ethel Emmon
Lorene Lemons
Harrell D. Copeland
Shannon
Patterson
J. E. Lemons
Bellevue High School
South
Clay County
F. L. Copeland
Henrietta High School
S.G. Norris, M.D
Texas
Tarrant Street
lka-Seltzer
TOE Bowie News
the Fergusons and
National Defense
Mallard
Ola Fae Holland
Ike Mitchell
Slaughter Drug Store
Ryan
Bowie, Texas
Bowie Bakery
TAGE
Meda Scarbrough
Bob's Ice Dock
Bob White
Aalaria
Miller Says
Miller’s Bowie’s Exclusive Store
Long's Shoe Shop
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Publishing Society
One
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
the Monitor
Christian Science Reading Room
Tarrant & Sanders Sts
City OF
City Council
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!