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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1949
Page
20
A spoof tale has a hypocritical business pirate vowing to climb Mount Sinai to read the Ten Commandments, but Mark Twain quips that he should stay home in Boston and keep them instead. The joke portrays Twain’s wit puncturing pretensions about piety and travel.
A Texan misses every shot at 100 and 200 yards in a rifle match but hits bull's eyes at 500 yards because he only shoots beyond 500 yards. Later, Bronislaw Hubermann jokes about a dog in the front row wagging its tail, and a boy boasts selling a dog for twenty five thousand dollar cats after asking fifty thousand dollars.
Mrs Jones asks about a train to Des Moines and Porter insists it belongs to the company. He challenges her competence and notes the engine is available to operate the service.
A man reading a Colorado couple buried in a snowdrift for 18 hours asks a waitress how she would handle such a burial. She jokes that if she and her sweetheart were buried, they would be swimming in 20 minutes.
It was nearly three in the morning when a prominent labor leader returned home posting a lost key. His wife challenged him from an upstairs window as he muttered about a strike meeting. She retorted to consider this a lockout and sent him back to the gathering.
A comic exchange shows Tommy teasing Pilot about his missing letters from his girl. Pilot explains she writes to others but not him. The punchline reveals she never stated who she would write to, clarifying the mix up.
A man notices his newsboy with a lively puppy one morning. The brief vignette centers on a chance encounter and the budding bond between child and animal. The scene captures everyday life with a touch of humor and warmth.
Carry Nation, famed saloon buster, devoted much time to prayer and boasted of answered prayers. She urged Kansas authorities to shut a defiant saloon, then knelt on the sidewalk to plead for divine destruction by lightning.
A violent wind storm battered the town nearly lifting the suiting’s foundation as spectators recalled prayers for divine intervention. An admirer quipped the answer came via wind not lightning, while Carry noted the noise inside the structure.
A brisk customer enters a small bookshop seeking a birthday gift for her husband. She rejects sports, dull biographies, and cheap novels and demands a suitable option. The clerk courteously offers a blue bound volume titled How to Handle a Loud Speaker.
Breeders seek dual meat and egg traits as hatcheries offer distinct chick types. Mosquitoes in chicken houses cut egg production, with Alabama experiments showing hens lay fewer eggs during peak pest activity. Turkey production rises nationally with a 25 percent forecast, totaling about 40 million birds if trends hold.
Information from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows Southwestern growers will raise significantly more turkeys this year than in 1949. Oklahoma growers report strong turkey prices benefiting producer earnings as demand climbs ahead of Thanksgiving.
An article notes angler fish use a lure to attract prey, while Texas crawdads migrate across land near Sandy Point Lake in a vast swarm. Thousands were killed crossing a road, making it slippery. Also covered are a new outboard motor The Wizard and the demanding, slim odds of becoming a major league umpire.
The article explains hens need water to lay eggs and notes a dozen eggs contain a pint of water while hens drink over a gallon during production. It advises keeping fountains full, offering cool water at noon, and ensuring enough fountains to prevent reduced intake. It warns against dry fountains and discusses perosis from poor management. Prevention includes straw litter, range housing, balanced minerals, oats middlings alfalfa or manganese in the ration.
The Texas School for the Blind in Austin won its sixth straight field and track championship at the National Athletic Association event, scoring 53 points. New Mexico followed with 51 while California finished third with 43 points.
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