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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
2
Little Joan grieves over her canary Witles. Her father consoles her with a cigar box burial in the garden. He explains heaven to Joan, who wonders how St Peter will react when the box lacks edgars.
An advertisement touts Cutt cur Tateum Powder as an antiseptic perfume for face skin baby and dusting use. It markets the product as economical convenient and superior to competing scents and promotes the Cuticura Toilet Trio including Soap Ointment and Taleum.
A grade teacher in a small class asks students to write about their teacher. One pupil writes a favorable portrait of Miss Brown describing amber colored hair green beads smart good manners neat clothes and even tempered when not upset.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine promises internal relief for catarrh and related deafness by acting through the blood to reduce inflammation of mucous surfaces. The circulars offer free details and state the product cures only catarrh related conditions.
The Boston Transcript notes Edna Ferber's Twelve Hundred a Year exposes wage gaps between professors and janitors in act one. It also references a translated monologue on Germany and a remark about hiring a painter, illustrating economic strain and frugal choices.
Constipation indicates possible stomach liver and bowel disturbance. Wrights Indias Vegetable Pillareatur advertised as a regularity remedy without striglog.
In Indianapolis News a class discusses feminine forms for widower. A student offers spinster while others say widow is proper. John explains that a grass widow is different from a spinster, noting a grass widow had a man she didn't want and a spinster wanted a man she didn't have.
The article notes that several countries require a breath holding test for aviation candidates. It cites a minimum of 45 seconds for a good aviator and mentions a purported record around 69 seconds.
In a witty exchange from The Opstacle a speaker suggests adding a roof garden to a new house. The reply notes a mortgage blocks the idea, highlighting a financial constraint impacting plans.
U S public debt rose by 112 646 571 in November to 24 175 156 244 from 24 062 509 672 in October. Officials expect a year end reduction of 300 million from the September debt of 24 087 356 128, aided by tax installments and careful financing.
Governor William P. Hobby led a Texas delegation to Chapultepec graves in Mexico City during President Obregon's inaugural ceremonies. He laid flower wreaths on the cadets memorializing 1847 defense, praising Mexican patriots and urging friendship and mutual understanding to prevent future sacrifices.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Dr Cutberto Hidalgo will visit Texas in January to personally thank Texans for support during President Obregon's inauguration and for hospitality shown to the Mexican delegation at the Dallas state fair. Governor Hobby disclosed the plan at a reception with American executives.
Constantinople reports Turkish nationalists have received thirty airplanes twenty armored cars and many motor trucks from the Russian Soviets. They are concentrating forces on the Jemid and Smyrna front for a major offensive against the Greeks.
Dr J B Crumbie state health secretary reports a Kansas leprosy case the first in six years and the fourth in state history. The patient, a soldier, is at the United States military hospital at Fort Leavenworth.
Texas notes show De Witt County gin receipts near 60 000 by season end and a Zavala County tick eradication group forming. Gregg County issues 100 000 road bonds, Washington County seeks 1 500 000 good roads bonds, and Sabine County organizes a potato growers association with officers.
Acting Governor A W Johnson issues a proclamation urging December 21 observance in Texas to honor the 200th anniversary of the Plymouth landing and to teach its civic liberty and human rights ideals in colleges and schools statewide.
An announcement in Mexico City on Thursday lists the cabinet of General Obregon. Key posts include Gobernacion and Chief of Cabinet General Elias Plutarco Calles, Foreign Relations Dr Cuthberto Hidalgo, Treasury Adolfo de la Huerta, War General Joaquin Hill, Agriculture General Antonio Villareal, Industry and Labor Rafael Zubaran Capmany, and Communications and Public Works Pacual Ortiz Rubio.
Washington reports put Mexico's potential oil lands at about 151.5 million acres with only 54 thousand currently developed. Prospects have been granted concessions in Tabasco Campeche Chiapas Yucatan Vera Cruz Tamaulipas and other eastern regions with activity also starting in Baja California and in Chihuahua and Durango.
Charles Ponzi pleaded guilty in federal court to using the mails in a defrauding scheme. Judge Hale sentenced him to five years in Plymouth County jail for the get rich quick scheme that collapsed last August after thousands invested millions in Boston and surrounding areas.
During November about 10 000 people passed through the Laredo port into Mexico. The figure comes from the Mexican consulate in Laredo and covers November 1 through November 30.
Lewly Wrecks Zbyazko, New York Waldek Zbyazko, the Polish wrestler, has been undergoing treatment at a hospital for injuries to his head sustained in a recent bout with Ed Strangler Lewis. His head is swollen and his sight is somewhat impaired.
A blast at a Seville business house caused heavy damage. Police reported four bombs used in the attack, injuries not specified and investigators examining the scene for leads and motives.
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