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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
4
Jefferson B White, editor and manager, lists officers W. C. Triggs and J. G. West as president and vice president with a board including J Br White and several others. Advertising rates are shown: 25 cents per column inch display, 10 cents per line for first insertion, line rates for subsequent insertions, and contract rates on application.
A speaker warns that heritage without proper use harms character. He likens squandered opportunity to a decaying tree, urging citizens and leaders to actively grow national vitality through service and contributions to civic institutions built by forebears.
A town tried to close stores on all but one evenings to ease worker strain and aid public convenience. Most stores joined, but one proprietor kept long hours to boost sales. He failed to gain as others did and missed an opportunity to advertise and unite merchants for collective success. The piece urges business people to act together.
Motor vehicle commissioner R B Stoeckel outlines 1925 Connecticut street accident causes in a recent bulletin. Crossing streets accounts for 878 incidents, stepping from behind objects 464, and playing in the street noted among risk factors.
The article warns Texas readers that many injuries to children result from sudden dashes from behind parked vehicles. It urges parents to teach children to cross only where they are clearly visible and drivers to exercise special care to spot feet or movement beyond cars. Education on this risk is emphasized for both children and drivers.
The article argues that most people can approach their goals by setting clear aims and working intelligently and hard. It notes that success depends on knowledge, awareness, and keen observation, not just effort, and that side interests can derail progress. Recognition and promotion arise from demonstrated capability.
The South yields 98 percent of U S sulphur and over half the nation s lumber and petroleum. It supplies a third of the corn and about 165 million tons of coal or 72 percent of U S coal. It provides one third of lead and zinc and all cotton for military needs, consuming and shipping surplus cotton to aid national industry.
The South ships about $100,000,000 of early fruits and vegetables to the North and West and provides millions of boxes of citrus fruit. It dominates manganese production for steel and supplies most pyrites ore for sulfuric acid. Cotton yields $350,000,000 in food and feedstuffs sent west and east. The region furnishes all bauxite for the aluminum industry while exhibiting steadfast loyalty and courage in times of need.
A vintage ad touts St Jacobs Oil as a harmless liniment for rheumatism sciatic pain and related aches. It claims instant relief when applied to tender spots and urges readers to obtain a trial bottle from a local druggist. It cites decades of use and broad effectiveness for neuralgia lumbago backache sprains and swelling.
Readers are told to use Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound from drugstores to darken gray hair. A dampened brush or sponge is used strand by strand, promising natural looking color that lasts with repeated applications.
Aunt Emmy explains budgeting as a plan for income, dividing money for needs like rent, food, clothing, heat, and savings. She cites typical budgets, stresses saving at least ten percent, and advises consulting bankers to adjust budgets for family changes and future security.
The Federal Reserve System has boosted business confidence in banks credit support, created an elastic currency, reduced money panics, stabilized seasonal rate fluctuations, guided the economy through war and postwar crises, saved millions via efficient check collection, strengthened the gold reserve for credit, aided financing of foreign and domestic trade through a discount market, enabled large government financial operations without disturbing business, aided gold standard re-establishment abroad, and built an experienced banking system to meet future domestic and international needs with courage and confidence.
John H. Puelicher becomes chairman of the board of trustees of the American Bankers Association Educational Foundation as ABA bankers pledge $500000 for scholarships and economics research in colleges nationwide. Other trustees include Leonard P. Ayers Stephen I. Miller Lewis E. Pierson George E. Roberts Francis H. Sisson Evans Woollen and W Espey Albig.
The banks of Washington Iowa provide simple banking education to public school pupils. Throughout the year talks were delivered to grade and high school students by representatives from the banks.
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