New Light Rates Save City 3100 in Cameron
Texas Power and Light Company district manager F. E. Woodruff announced new reduced residential and commercial lighting rates for Cameron. The changes remove the old room count rate, lower initial energy cost to five cents per kilowatt hour, add lower steps of 4 3 and 2 cents per kWh with a 2 1/2 cent daily charge, and cut commercial rates similarly. Overall, residential lighting costs have fallen over 50 percent since 1925 and commercial lighting by more than 45 percent.
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Cameron
Texas Power & Light Company
F. E. Woodruff
Woodruff
Mr. Woodruff
Keep a Good Laxative Always in Your Home
Mis leading medical advertorial cites Mrs. Perry Hicks of Belton Texas praising Thedford Black Draught as a reliable laxative for biliousness constipation and other ills. Ad claims 25 cent packages and urges sate stays at home.
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Thedford
Perry Hicks
Belton
Texas
Marak Community Donates 32 Dollars for Flood Relief
The Marak community contributed 32 dollars to the American Red Cross flood relief fund. F. E. Woodruff, roll call chairman, received the check from Father K. Racer of St Cy ril church. It is the county’s largest community donation and Woodruff praised the gift as an outstanding example.
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Marak
Flood Relief Fund
American Red Cross
F. E. Woodruff
Roll Call
Father K. Racer
St. Cyril Church
Mr. Woodruff
Hardin Pollard Joins Longhorn Band Centennial Trip
Charles Hardin Pollard, a University of Texas freshman and former Cameron pupil, will tour the United States with the Texas Longhorn Band to promote the Texas Centennial. The band’s main broadcast will originate from Radio City in New York.
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Charles Hardin Pollard
Univrsity of
Texas
United States
Texas Longhorn Band
Frank Newton
Schriener Institute
Pollard
Frances Cox
Cameron
Radio City
New York
Herald
Power line to serve Milano area soon
The Texas Power and Light Company plans to begin service in Milano by around the 20th of the month. District manager F. E. Woodruff says about 40 residents within Milano and farmers along the route will gain electric service for the first time, part of a rural program expanding to Marak Yarrelton Sharp and Tracy areas.
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Texas Power and Light Company
Milano
F. E. Woodruff
Marak
Yarrelton
Sharp and
Tracy
Cameron Band Heads to Waco for Texas Band Contest
The Cameron band of 52 members under Francis Cox departs Friday for Waco to compete in the Eastern division Texas band contest April 17 18. In 1933 the municipal band of 44 won first place with 91 points, the highest score. 1934 saw a first in the two year class with 92 1 2 points. In 1935 the band placed in the excellent class and also excelled in drilling and drum major. They will then visit San Antonio for a contest April 23 24 during the Battle of the Roses.
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Cameron
Francis Cox
Waco
Cameron Band
San Antonio
Lowers
Sheriff arrests Frank Patterson in jacket theft case
Sheriff Max Kennedy detained Frank Patterson of San Antonio on Thursday and jailed him here. Patterson faces charges of stealing a leather jacket from Albert Black of Milano.
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Max Kennedy
Frank Patterson
San Antonio
Patterson
Albert Black
Milano
Almon Family Visitors Over Easter In Cameron
Mrs Grady Almon and her daughters Lelia Bell Marjorie Dorothy and Edith Marie Almon of Dallas spent Easter with Mrs Almon’s parents Mr and Mrs J H McLerran in Cameron during the holiday period.
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Billy Gillis
Schriener Institute
Kerrville
Cameron
W. G. Gillis
John Watson
University of Texas, Austin
John Waton
Grady Almon
Lelia Bell
Marjorie
Dorothy
Edith Marie Almon
Dallas
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Hardin Pollard
Longhorn Band
T. A. Fisher
Austin
Fisher
Cameron Schools
Matyastik & Sons Mill
MR. B. V. Roberts
Cameron Mutual Life Insurance Asso
Cameron Mutual Life Insurance Association
Roberts
Cameron Mutual
Sapp Motor Co
Dodge and
Plymouth
Watts
Electrolux
Mauritz-Baldwin Corpn
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