Lott Post Debuts with Local Editorial Promise and Camer on Town Uproar
Volume 1 number 1 of the Lott Post arrives promising a neat substantial weekly under editor O R Porterfield as Cameron debates nicknames for its city. Local editors spar over alliteration and public road and railroad policy while reflecting on national issues and working girls in Cameron stores.
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Lott Post
O. R. Porterfield
Cameron
Lott Good Roads Club
Central Texas
Rockdale
Cooke
Early day shopping plea to Cameron ladies
The Cameron Herald appeals to women shoppers to retire the after six visits. It notes many working women support themselves or relatives and urges early day shopping before noon to help sales staff and avoid unproductive browsing.
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Ping
Cameron
Herald
Government Railroads Compared With American Private Lines
The Cameron Herald argues that government ownership of railroads, praised in Europe before the war, risks harming public interests. It notes American wartime experiences show decline in service quality and questions paternalistic state control versus private operation.
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Cameron Herald
Europe
America
Government and railroads cited in mixed performance
A Dallas News opinion quotes the State Press stating the government often fails in railroading and warns that without its own anti-railroad laws violations the railroad service would resemble a three wheeled stage in a sand storm.
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State Press
Dallas News
Professors In Courtship in Cameron High Weekly
The Cameron Herald reprints a humorous piece about professors and courtship at Cameron High. It pokes fun at how seasoned educators struggle with small talk and romantic gestures, imagining awkward schemes and the comic gap between classroom discipline and dating rituals.
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Cameron High School
Cameron Herald
Humorous Verses and Vignettes from a 1919 Column
A collage of quips, verses, and anecdotes from a New York Tribune column dated March 7 1919. It includes playful lines about advice, experience, revenge, prohibition humor, and a Navy release memory. The piece closes noting Mrs. R. E. Roberts and daughter Verna visiting Thorndale.
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Wall Street
Nassau Street
George Crutch
Navy
New York Tribune
The Professor Links Marriage to Biology on Campus
The State Press notes the professor treats marriage as biology in theory but acts as if it were a campus prank. It contrasts girls’ interest in astronomy with stars and satellites, using witty analogy.
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State Press
Dallas News
Good Roads And Markets In Texas Agriculture
The piece cites Crosby Texas as an example where shell roads ease freight movement, noting a farmer shifting 2 tons of wire fencing in stages for a four mile trip. It highlights cotton haul data in the South, costs per bale, and the 1911 USDA estimate of haulage expenses, arguing better roads boost farm prosperity and bond-issue support.
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Office of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Crosby
Texas
Card of Thanks for Bereavement Support
We express heartfelt thanks to the many friends who kindly assisted us in our recent bereavement. May your reward come from one who doeth all things well is our prayer. Mrs. W. A. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. York, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Robinson.
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W. A. Robinson
L. M. York
A. T. Robinson
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