Postal notice from Brookshire Texas appears on time
Local postal record shows Brookshire Times entered at Brookshire Texas as second class mail matter under the Act of March 5 1897.
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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1931
Page
6
Local postal record shows Brookshire Times entered at Brookshire Texas as second class mail matter under the Act of March 5 1897.
A crowded personals page lists Billie Gatlin and Dr E N Gatlin visiting Houston, Max Wander, Edith Courrier, Leon Harrison, Miss Doris Nelson, Eu tha Winfrey and many others. It notes school teachers, graduates, funerals, and local residents visiting relatives, plus sales offers and a high school valedictorian planning to attend Texas University.
The piece notes retail gas prices dropping while the state tax on fuel rises, predicting higher tax per five gallons. It recalls Leas gasoline sales last year versus 1929 and records a state tax take of 522,110,961, suggesting tax revenue may outpace other government funds.
Texas obituary notice for Tom B. Cuny, licensed embalmer and funeral director in Hempstead. Details indicate professional credentials and location, announcing service or obituary timing.
A frightened wife, waking to a noise at her Drexel Park home, fled with her child to a neighbor’s roof in night attire. After a panicked call, she realized a wrong number led to her journalist husband Carl, who answered the final call at dawn, ending the scare.
In Mrs. A M W Stirling's reminiscences Life's Little Day she recalls her mother patronizing the same milliner as Queen Victoria. The milliner reportedly refused to alter the royal bonnet stating the queen requires a bonnet not a cap despite a proposed pretty bow.
Editorial note reflecting on public indifference to child labor spanning a century. It asserts a general dulling of moral urgency and urges renewed vigilance against exploitation in society.
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