Forty years ago in Rockdale from the Rockdale Weekly Review
Night Officer Sid Allen provides a copy of the October 22 1887 Rockdale Weekly Review the first volume issue. It details local news politics and saloon ads plus fire loss at Judge Perry’s home, property sales, enrollment, and early Farm Alliance editorializing in the Rockdale Messenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sid Allen
Rockdale Weekly Review
Minor H. Brown
Rockdale
J. G. Brown
Goldstickers
McQuire & Hodge
J. S. Perry
J. R. Rowland
G. H. Backhaus
Joe Stewart
Milano
Henry Lockwood
W. Harris
D. S. Harris
R. W. Jenness
Leachville
Scarbrough & Hicks
Childrens’ Shoes
Brogans
Randle & Porter
Wallace & Co
W. P
Fred York
Rockdale Bank
J. S. Perry & Co
J. E. Longmoore
J. E. Longmoor
Farmers Alliance News
Milany Lee
Burleson
Robertson County Alliances
Harry Tracy
E. W. Allen
D. S. Harris & Son
Wolf & Winterbers
St Jacobs Oil Promises Quick Relief From Rheumatic Pain
A vintage advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as a safe rheumatism liniment that relieves pain stiffness and soreness in joints muscles and bones without internal treatment. It claims rapid relief from sciatica lumbago backache and neuralgia and urges readers to start with a small trial bottle from any drug store.
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St. Jacobs
Poll Tax Receipts Rise in Texas for 1924 Electorate
Dallas report shows 928 295 poll tax receipts issued in 208 counties by Feb 16, up 17.5 percent from 1922. If remaining 44 counties match the rise, Texas voting strength could reach about 1 659 954 including exemptions.
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Dallas
Texas
Cameron High School Play Delights Rockdale Reporter
The Cameron High School students performed well in the local auditorium last Friday with Miss Eloise Rogers delivering a standout acting performance. The play drew a good audience and received strong praise from the Rockdale Reporter for its amateur production.
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Cameron High School
Eloise Rogers
Rockdale
Farm For Sale Near Cameron Texas With Good Improvements
Advertises a farm for sale two miles west of Cameron on a highway with water well and level terrain. Four acres cultivated, two acres hot pasture, remaining pasture with woods. option to put back into cultivation. Contact August Michalka Cameron Texas Box 54 at Cameron Machine Shop on Saturdays.
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Cameron
Trac
Cameron Machine Shop
Michalka
Texas
Constable's Sale in Milam County Texas 1924
By writ of execution issued February 8 1924 in Milam County Precinct 1 Justice Court Marshall E Weems to collect 116.19 dollars plus 11.61 attorney fees and costs plus 10 percent interest from January 28 1924 in case No 2109.
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Milam
Justice Court
Milam County
J. M. Ralston
Marshall E. Weems
Court levies on land of Marshall E. Weems in Milam County
Constable Charles Sens of Precinct One Milam County Texas reports February 9 1924 levy on real estate owned by Marshall E. Weems. The tract comes from the A B Hayworth league grant part of 156 1 2 acres assigned to W S Massengale in the Massengale Massengale partition and measures about 100 12 acres with a 8 inch diameter stake reference at the southeast corner dated July 26 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
W. S. Massen Eale
T. L. Massengale
S. E. Cor
A. S. Massengale
John C. Massencale
Enma Williams
Land description and sale of Marshall E. Weems property
A Milam County court sale lists a described 11 acre tract and 45 acre parcel tied to Marshall E. Weems, now owned by Harrell minors for S E Cor. The sale is set for March 4, 1924 at the Milam County Courthouse between 1 and 4 pm, cash to the highest bidder.
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N. E. Cor
H. M. Massengale
Harrell
S. E. Cor
N. W
S. W
S. W. Cor
N. W. Cor
Vrs
Milam County
Texas
Marshall E. Weems
Court House
Cameron
Tex
Notice of Sale Under Writ of Execution
Constable Chas Sens announces a public sale under a writ of execution by publication in the Cameron Herald Milam County Texas. The notice runs weekly for three consecutive weeks before the sale date and bears the constable’s signature dated February 6 1924.
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Levy
Cameron Herald
Milam County
Chas. Sens
Texas
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St. Jacobs Oil
Jack Foster
Martin “Handcraft” Instruments
R. R. Tyson
Constable’s
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Washington
Valley Forge
Citizens National Bank
George Washington
the Mason
San Andres
Masonic
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Order of the Eastern Star
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