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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
2
The essay argues that better roads improve school attendance and quality in rural Texas. It cites studies from Virginia showing 20 to 40 percent enrollment gains after road improvements, enabling district consolidation and hiring better teachers. Improved roads raise farm values and school taxes, funding superior instruction and reduced illness.
The South faces a demand for fair cotton prices and controlled acreage. A short crop supports higher prices, while planting last year’s area risks a 15 million bale surplus. hold current crop to lift prices and discuss long term fixes in the next page. Adv Rub-My-Tism ad follows.
The Louisiana department of education plans large construction and betterment of Negro schools including more schools and longer terms. It will fund half the cost of 35 to 40 summer schools for colored teachers, offering a twelve week course free to qualified entrants.
A plea from the United States Bureau of Education and the National Kindergarten Association urges immediate inclusion of kindergarten in all public schools to foster Americanization. Texas and California run campaigns as letters from across the states show growing support for this educational change.
Advertisement notes that the 666 Chill and Fever Tonic has many imitations, warns they are dangerous in the medicine line, and asserts consumers avoid counterfeit versions. The brief underscores the risk of fake tonics aimed at healing ailments.
An advertisement from Cameron Texas touts Nux I Tone a tonic with iron and Nux Vomica and beef and wine for convalescent and pale weak individuals including women and children. It claims to strengthen and raise vitality, listing a price of one dollar.
Bishop Collins Denny of the M E Church South told Centenary Campaign workers in Owensboro Kentucky that war revealed the value of conservation. He said the world has wasted resources and that many items once discarded can sustain life if properly reused.
The 305th Field Artillery Band at Malicorne painted a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm on its bass drum and will bring the drum to New York when the 77th Division returns home in April for onlookers to view his thrashings. The piece mocks the former emperor as the war ends.
During 1918 the United States shipped nearly as many tractors to Mexico as to all other Latin American countries. R. C. Cochran of Para Illinois is cutting his third set of upper teeth and has just recovered from influenza.
A folding handle designed to be carried in a pocket is meant to be used with a post card to form a fan. The statement notes that man is the only living thing that ever sleeps on its back.
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