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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1953
Page
4
A joking court scene unfolds as a man reports being fined five dollars for kissing a woman and ten more for drunkenness. A bystander asks how he must explain it to his wife as humorous gossip about a chorus girl and her sugar daddy ends with a bank note noting insufficient funds.
Bronte High School chatter covers dating pairs from Jo Dell to Wanda T and Barb S with occasional sightings of Frankie and Wendel Teakel at the senior play. Visitors include Herbert Brigman in the Marines and social gatherings hosted by Mrs. Mug Stephenson. Easter travel and weddings noted in surrounding towns.
A patchy OCR of March 1925 to March 1927 items notes beliefs on parenting versus scripture, a grocery move by Walker Good and Charley Baker to Townsend, wreck near Snyder with minor injuries, a March 14 wedding of Ernest Bilbo and Virgie Williams, Forks updates on Ellis Eubanks cranking a Ford, Ernest Buford horse accident, John Brown knife injury, J M Nails welcome a son in Novice born March 22, and Garland Williams birthday party with attendees.
The prose mocks April Fool pranks and ridicules "stabbing in the back" rhetoric used in public discourse. It notes a grim joke about assassinating character and hints at a frost in early spring as a metaphor for cool reception. The piece blends whimsical observations with sharp social commentary.
Hubert Brock, a navy sailor stationed at Pensacola Florida, is home for a few days with his mother Mrs Beulah Tubbs of Eunice New Mexico. The brief home visit occurred last week.
Mr and Mrs David Gulley and their son are visiting the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Bill. The note records a family gathering and the presence of the couple and child at the maternal grandparents’ residence.
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