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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1927
Page
6
The writer notes a beautiful Christmastime display in Austin with streets stores and buildings aglow with green lights and bright decorations. He adds Texas cities share similar reverent celebrations, indicating less rowdy behavior and a hopeful sign of moral improvement.
Amid holiday hardship a community leader urges a New Year effort to ensure every family can provide a comfortable home. The message links Christmas aid to ongoing giving and social support.
The text praises the Christmas season as a time when charity and neighborliness rise. Hearts open to the needs of the unfortunate. many receive comforts and small luxuries. It notes the Christ spirit of service growing in people’s hearts and growing brotherly kindness amid broader records.
The author urges cities towns and communities to organize systematic surveys to identify idle workers their skills and suitable jobs. With clear data every place should create opportunities for useful work and remuneration guiding self reliance as a duty of a prosperous public.
Texas publishers faced a busy holiday season with many issues packed to 40 pages of ads and little reading material. Despite smaller print runs for some papers, advertisers and readers alike benefited, creating a profitable and satisfying season for publishers, merchants, and readers.
Dr. B. Youngblood of the Texas Farm Experiment Stations foresees strong cotton growth as global dress and hygiene trends boost demand. He notes consumption already outpacing production and believes the cotton producer’s long desired goal is within reach.
Three Wills Point citizens H Gilchrist J C Wells and W M Foster propose thrift plans in Texas. The bankers and Chamber secretary back a tenant farmer with Jersey stock pigs turkeys and chickens to start him toward owning his farm. The effort is presented as a community service in the Dallas News.
Lamesa farmers are testing profits from broom corn and sunflowers as alternatives to cotton. A carload of broom corn left Lamesa and yielded earnings per acre. One farmer planted 400 acres of sunflowers, averaging about 35 dollars per acre, threshing the crop like maize and selling at 5 cents a pound to chicken-feed mills. Production neared 700 pounds per acre, suggesting gross receipts and potential profits to compare with cotton.
A compact item notes farm exhibits and lectures linked to the Santa Fe Railway system, highlighting events likely suitable for rural communities. It references venues, timings, and topics supporting agricultural interests and education.
A Whey Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound ad claims to darken gray or faded hair quickly and evenly. It asserts millions of bottles are sold annually and promises a youthful appearance after one or two applications.
The Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College plans a farm and home demonstration special traveling from Navasota on January 16 to Follet on February 25. It will stop 117 times to showcase exhibits and deliver expert lectures guiding farmers to diversify income and identify profitable sources. Newspapers along the route are urged to promote attendance to maximize farmer participation.
A shipment of mistletoe from Brownwood to Philadelphia aims to spark Christmas kissing in the Quaker City. Brownwood boasts as the first Texas point to sponsor wholesale cal latory merriment, while Graham asserts it has previously shipped several carloads to eastern cities.
Longview aims to enlist Congressman John C. Box to persuade the Biological Survey to provide a rodent expert. The town seeks a ratkiller. A Smith county ratkilling contest ended with 55,856 rats killed in five weeks.
Public notice that cotton receipt number 89539 in the name of John Hrozek dated September 23 1927 from Cameron Compress Company for one bale is lost. The undersigned John L Hrozek claims ownership and warns the public not to accept or deal with the receipt.
A humorous note claims Sherlock Holmes is believed alive with thousands of letters annually addressed to him. It also mentions a purportedly oldest clock, dated A D 1439, crafted by an unknown artisan at the court of Philip the Good in Burgundy.
The statement notes that out of eighty four billion dollars deposited globally about five eights or fifty two billion dollars are in United States banks.
A German aviator completed a 21 mile flight from Cologne to Bonn while flying inverted, demonstrating an unusual maneuver in early era aviation.
A vintage advert touts St Jacobs Oil as a harmless liniment that soothes rheumatic and sciatic pain by applying to the tender spot. It claims instant relief from soreness stiffness and swelling and urges readers to obtain a trial bottle from their druggist. The copy asserts decades of use and benefits for neuralgia lumbago backache sprains and swellings.
A district nurse tells a roomful of high school girls that basic health for girls means natural body function, regular exercise and diet, with nujol as a safe, mechanical aid. She recommends a spoonful nightly for a few days and asserts nujol is pure, harmless, and drug free.
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