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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
3
A dealer in Cameron Texas offers a car of young broke Texas reared mules and a car of young unbroke Texas reared mules. Terms: right. W M Thompson listed as contact.
The Cameron Herald invites votes for Milam county’s two most popular young ladies. A $75 Gold Watch and a $50 Gold Watch will be awarded to the top two winners, with ballots due by 6 pm December 24. Prizes will be claimed at Johnson's Jewelry Store.
A compilation of marriage license acknowledgments shows many couples including Williams Justice with Nellie Gibson and Robert Patterson with Callie Arthur Morgan among others. The list names pairs such as Eva Floyd with General Whitfield and Isabel Buim, J. W. Highlander with Tina Pompiter, Liz Barrett with Della McCall, and many more across the community. The notice presents no further details about dates locations or procedures.
For sale good young broke mules and horses of all kinds. Reasonable prices and guaranteed as recommended. Contact Tom Rhodes at 24 21 oe Le ens.
Wanted a gentleman or lady with good rail travel references or a rig to join a firm with $250000 capital. Salary is $1072 per year plus expenses, paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address with stamp Jos A Alexander Cameron Texas. Castor oil and a full range of oils offered by Geo A Thomas & Sons.
At Victoria Monk Gibson and Felix Powell stand trial for the Cauditt family murder. Henry Howard faces potential charges alongside them. Capt. McDonald suspects the number of weapons used exceeds what Monk Gibson could have wielded.
Paul J. Thompson declares he will prosecute to the full extent of the law all hunters and trespassers on his farm. Notice dated 1941.
The Burleson Reality & Trust Co announces it seeks general cash borrowers and invites interested buyers sellers or exchangers to provide particulars at once. The note references 22-21 Waco Texas and urges readers to respond.
Inquiries point to Gilroy, 18 1.10 Burlington, Texas as the contact for the premium stationery. Beach’s photos 21-41 4 reference. The text notes ancient Egypt glass blowing as a 2000 year old practice with Sakkara omb depicting glass blowing, suggesting an early craft linked to Nile dwellers.
The London ground of All Hallows' Church is valued at 1,000,000 dollars. With a 3 percent rate, annual interest equals 120,000 dollars. Dividing by a 26 member congregation yields about 5,000 dollars per person yearly for worship facilities and running expenses.
Warm water treatment and wounD paper applied to the dent, then a warm flatiron pressed until moisture evaporates. Repeat two or three times to raise the bruise to the surface.
The passage notes a rush to the city driven by a lure of mentality and power. It contrasts the city’s glittering opportunities with the country’s rewards, warning that personal failure in the city is a tragedy while beggary and vice lurk in crowded streets.
Reports from Maystfield say Mr. Freeman and Miss Williams will open a general store there soon. Mrs. Buckaman plans to rebuild and open a grocery store.
A good one horse wagon and harness offered for cash at a bargain. Trade possible for hay cattle or hogs. Signed by H. E. Balknight.
Local plans outline a 60 by 80 or 90 foot brick building for Buckholts with a State bank situated in a lone corner and space reserved for a mercantile department. Trade options include hay hogs or cattle with contact to 232 H. E. Baulknight.
Northern buyers indicate that price levels will rise later in the month as heavy birds are marketed. The comment signals anticipated stiff prices and suggests a tightening market for larger poultry.
On a Tuesday morning Tillie the new Scandinavian maid asks Mrs Meesis if she should cook flat bread, delaying the obvious ironing task to confirm the plan. Tillie politely seeks guidance before proceeding.
The Orinoco river system is described as having the most tributaries among rivers with a total length of about 2600 units and 436 large streams noted.
The piece notes that in two years French florists grow violets into a two foot tree bearing 26 to 300 flowers annually. It also states the diving bell was used in Phoenicia around 820 BC but reached Europe about 1500.
An item states Father Wood, a monk in Rome, is credited with inventing the plane in 1711. It mentions a czar's armored motor car built in Aretria for $25,000 and notes vast oceanic seafaring by hundreds of millions. It also recalls England’s Henry VIII era where football was a crime and extols silence to build self control.
In the Vatican a mosaic factory functions with patient artists at work in a gallery lined with 29 000 rockers. They use cilica slabs to reproduce the tints from canvas.
A London resident volunteers for exhibition to endure a 21 day period living solely on canned meat. The stunt is presented as a test of endurance amid prosperity narratives.
In a denunciation from The Illustrated London News O. K. Chesterton condemns an eyeglass worn in only one eye as monstrous and devilish. He argues such asymmetry blasphemes human balance and decency and quips a person could wear a trouser on one leg or a mustache on one side.
A botanical note explains the nutmeg fruit sized like a peach, edible and splitting when ripe. The seed or aril, described as a warm friend with a scarlet undershirt, peeps out and turns brown, becoming mace.
The passage notes Diderot saying he would cut off an arm rather than lose a certain novel he wrote. Some attribute to Scott the claim that he wrote no line he would wish to blot at death.
A Boston Herald quote highlights shifting praise for women, noting few are not smartly dressed and praising perpetual polish over fading beauty.
A quotation attributed to George Eliot notes that sympathetic people often hide their own depths behind reflected images.
A German statistician warns of rising scarcity of men, forecasting that 3,000 years from now there will be only one man for every 220 women. He bases this on current demographic trends and birth rates.
Johnson works on a humorous definition about collecting all things people said they didn’t mean. The scene shows a cheerful man returning to his dictionary after a playful remark.
The gum vine called gomuzuru is described as a plant yielding rubber, allegedly a Japan age name for a plant discovered in Formosa. It is said to produce a fair quality of rubber and to grow profusely on that island.
A Keighley mother summoned for failing to send her son to school told the bench that when she tried to discipline him he threatened to report her to the cruelty inspector. The judge heard her explanation amid the case of nonattendance.
A Providence Journal excerpt contrasts the swift mind and slow body with a dreamer who travels vast distances in minutes. It notes a chauffeur and car as symbols of speed while reflecting on learning and the limits of human perception. The piece weighs motion against contemplation.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece contrasts Sicilian maid life described in a joint British sketch book with American girls freedoms. It notes Italian maids face strict chaperones and locked homes while American girls enjoy broad liberties before marriage and freedom to choose partners.
In Second Hane a lawyer questions a juror about knowledge of the parties in a suit. The juror admits he only knows what he has read about Abraham eg Alexander the Great and Bloody Mr., yet the attorney notes a general sense of the type of people they were. The juror is excused as too intelligent for jury service.
A historical recipe for cleaning leather blends French chalk and fuller's earth in equal parts with powdered starch and yellow ocher. It uses boiling water to form a thin paste, sweet oil, and a wax turpentine polish. The mixture treats soil, dries, brushes off, and finishes with wax polish.
A New York Post quote urges daily nasal and throat spraying with a tincture in water at first signs of trouble to reduce catarrh. A rector jokes to parishioners about clothing fund donations and buttons are not required. A proverb notes three kinds of people wills wants and cants, with the first succeeding.
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