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Newspaper
Bronte Weekly Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
4
In a Chicago Tribune passage a young man with flower in vest and long shoulder-length hair sits in a car. Mary notices him and questions, while others hear her shrill reply about the man’s hair.
A Boston Globe note reports Alexander Comeau of Portland Maine owns a watch that refuses daylight saving time. Last spring he set it one hour ahead, then the heuer hand dropped back an hour. The watch fluctuated back and forth before settling on standard time, after which Comeau stopped adjusting it.
Mrs Eliza beth Brooks marked her ninety first birthday in Bridgeport with many relatives including thirty two direct descendants. She recalled reading through the Bible yearly by a plan of three chapters daily and five on Sundays, a practice she has kept for twenty five years.
Mrs. A questions how her husband seemed to recover quickly from illness while Mrs. B mentions the threat of calling his mother to provide care as Bow ton Transcript notes the exchange.
The piece surveys Ireland as a leading land in ancient omens and disease beliefs. It notes Celtic methods resembling Oriental ideas for sickness, including curing whooping cough with a fish or frog head, transferring toothache to wood via an iron nail, and passing scarlet fever down an ass’s throat, as cited by R. H. Tingley in the Chicago Journal.
A National Republican item notes a western congressman dislikes fat women and jokes about his wife who grew from 106 to 186 pounds. The couple allegedly uses a secret dime-dropping method to lure her into collecting coins daily. The piece treats the scheme humorously and mockedly.
The Sunday evening service was led by Mrs. O A Willoughby's class of young men and women. The program featured vocal and instrumental renditions and readings, described as entertaining and inspirational. Mrs. C G Holder contributed a helpful part, with young ladies in the class being music pupils of Mrs Holder. Mr and Mrs C R Gollihar and Mr and Mrs O H Willoughby were San Angels visitors on Tuesday.
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