This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1930
Page
9
The article critiques a local mindset in Texas towns that focus only on immediate surroundings. It urges state mindedness in readers, calling for Texas newspapers to lead a coordinated, state wide effort to push progress and guard against parochial thinking.
The article notes that 1936 marks a century since Texas independence and urges action to plan a proper celebration to awaken public interest, indicating little has yet been done and stressing the need for a significant communal effort.
Delay would be unpardonable. Legislators must be elected who support the movement. The state must be aroused by intensive publicity and unite the press. Outside interests should be enlisted to fund vast educational and entertaining projects with buildings and grounds improved. Exhibits reflecting wealth and growth must be assembled. A great work lies ahead with little time to do it right.
Northern tourists in Texas marvel at flower lined highways with bluebonnets pimoses verbenas and other native blooms. The beauty of roadside fields and pastures in bloom fills travelers with wonder and civic clubs are urged to maintain wild flowers along country roads for public benefit.
A farm operation on an 1800 acre holding tests electric and gasoline powered equipment to show viability for Texas agriculture. The owner plans to sell only livestock dairy products and vegetables, aiming to prove profitability scalable to smaller farms.
Fifty farm orchards were planted this year in Young County under the direction of the county home demonstration agent. Her successful effort demonstrates the value of her leadership and merits her salary to the county government.
The Colorado Llano river sections near Bertram Burnet Marble Falls and Llano show early prosperity as six dams are planned. The builder buys flowage rights drills for the dams buys lands and options for flooded areas. A $250 000 gauze factory is planned for Marble Falls with growth in granite output in Burnet and Llano counties. The 35 mile lake will be the country’s largest artificial lake with lakeside homes and heath resorts along its banks. Texas is praised as a wonderful state for its readers.
The Santa Fe line to Presidio is expected to finish by October 1, opening a gateway to Mexico and northward outlet for northern riches. Presidio region abounds in minerals and marble and granite stores, suggesting a future port of entry and growth. The Big Bend area attracts tourists with unmatched scenery.
A large cave near Richland Springs, San Saba county, is being explored. Its exact size is unknown, but it contains several large chambers with extensive stalactite and stalagmite formations. The team hopes to determine its dimensions and gauge its potential to attract visitors.
The Mason News says a local businessman who buys out of town and uses GPO envelopes urged readers to back a local project to prevent its failure. The piece questions how long enough residents would allow such attitudes to jeopardize Mason or other towns.
An El Campo business ad notes three bakeries one creamery and a feed mill in town while cooperative merchants source goods from Houston. The piece questions local purchasing behavior and hints at varied community attitudes toward the buyers and the marketplace.
Wilson county reports a county farm agent sponsored planting of black eyed peas, with contracts for 4600 acres across the county. Seed shortages and high seed costs limit further expansion despite strong demand.
Wasa Mangum administrator files final account of W T Mowdy estate in Milam County Texas. Probate hearing set by County Court in Cameron on Monday June 2 1930. Interested parties must appear to contest before next term. order requires publication for twenty days and return of service.
Odem farmer R C Caldwell has expanded to 800 acres of radishes and 600 acres of beets on a 1400 acre spread. He has shifted this land to cotton and other crops and is now worth about a quarter of a million dollars. He credits intelligent methods and diversified farming for his success and suggests others could scale up by pooling acreage and cooperating in marketing.
Dr A W Odell operates an 1800 acre farm near Goliad growing a wide range of crops and maintaining beef and milk cattle, turkeys, chickens and hogs. He uses electric motor power and gasoline tractors with only one mule team and no horses on the place. He also grows feed.
A photo in the Waco Tribune-Herald Sunday edition shows Miss Jennie Shirley, formerly on the Cameron Enterprise editorial staff, with Baylor University journalism students. Shirley left Cameron in December to study at Baylor.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. DuBois and their heir daughter Miss Bess DuBois with their grandson Waybourn Gunn visited relatives in Jewett last weekend.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.