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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
4
The Hillsboro Dispatch reader notes praise for the Houston Labor Journal, commending its fairness and thoughtful leadership. The reader credits both brains and heart in its editorial stance and recovery.
On June 4 the Wichita Daily Tribune page four carried telegraphic news items two citations by publication and numerous display ads. The page labeled editorial did not contain any editorial content.
The Dallas News opines that the circus lady who performs stunts on a trapeze is considered overdressed as society shuns visible limbs through her attire, contrasting with other women wearing diaphanous skirts.
A Hillsboro merchant, inspired by Robstown and The News, mobilizes over 400 volunteers to assist Hill County farmers in clearing weeds. The effort seeks a date set by the farmers and questions whether West should pass up this timely aid.
Senator H. B. Terrell of West Texas seeks the comptroller post, praised as competent and qualified through long service in both Texas legislative chambers. The Mirror opposes Mr Worrell’s candidacy, arguing the newspaper favors Terrell and questions Worrell’s suitability for the office.
Fragmentary text recalls a royal patronage era. references to poetry novels and history, noting the term mother of literature and the phrase ecrive as a skill linked to the king’s favor. The readable lines hint at a historical discussion of literary flourishing under royal authority.
Fragmentary text questions the promoter of get-rich-quick schemes and the ongoing literature after an investor has joined. It hints at distrust of promised profits and possible persuasion tactics.
Robstown News quotes a stance against drinking as ruinous to a young man’s standing. The Dallas News echoes strong views, arguing heavy alcohol use undermines careers from lawyers to laborers and leads to confinement in the calaboose and fines.
Fort Worth greeted State Senator Henry B Terrell on Friday. The West Texas editor and publisher, with sixteen years in the Texas legislature, touted his independence and ambition to succeed W. P. Lane as state comptroller. He travels widely, manages his own campaigns, and seeks office as a freelance Democrat. He received a warm reception from colleagues including Senator Gibson of Fannin.
Fort Worth Record quotes Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald noting Lattimore opposed social clubs, calling them hell holes. The measure failed on the house calendar with a pro majority of twenty behind him, while Terrell remains uneliminated until the July 25 Democratic primary. The Houston Post blasts political falsehoods and urges readers to fight back with a fly swatter metaphor.
A meeting over a binder attachment led to a gunfight between Carpenter and Harris. Harris, armed with a four shooter, and Carpenter with a shotgun exchanged shots. Harris was hit in both hips and the shoulder while Carpenter took a bullet in the left breast. Harris may die, Carpenter may survive. Carpenter is the father of A. Y. Carpenter, China Springs precinct constable.
The passage argues that unbiased reporting is hard in campaigns as papers lean toward Ball or Ferguson. It cites the Houston Post quote on tolerance and safeguarding others rights as a standard for fair treatment.
The article notes peach shipments to the north from Marshall signaling the official opening of peach season with expectations of a large crop. It also reports a San Benito farmer, F. Tillinhoast, delivering a 29 pound three foot beet, possibly the largest Texas produced beet. Census data show Texas mills crushed over 1.15 million tons of cottonseed in 1913, yielding 174,746 bales of linters, far ahead of Georgia. The four state normals board plans to rebuild the West Texas State Normal at Canyon City after a recent fire.
The document notes Dallas population at 120 036, a Milam County road bond issue of 10 000 approved, Palacios business men aiding farmers in cotton harvest, Kaufman precinct 1 voters to decide a 200 000 good roads bond, and an estimated 1914 Texas wheat crop of 20 000 000 bushels.
A Temple Bell County meeting of the good roads advisory committee set 80 miles of surrounding country roads for upgrade using a $600000 bond issue. Fifty five and a half miles will be 26 feet wide with a 16 foot center and twenty four and a half miles will be 20 feet wide with a 9 foot center. Total cost estimated at 400000 with bids opening June 17 at Belton. The remaining funds will go to Temple streets.
Texas shows a 1910 population of 3,896,542 with about 4.5 million at present. The 1850 census recorded 212,595, while state demographics split whites 82.2 percent, blacks 17.7 percent, and others 0.1 percent. foreign-born residents total 242,000. Seventy-six percent rural, 24 percent urban, with 2,017,626 males to 1,878,916 females and 1,000,000 interstate movers. most from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
California members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy announce the 1915 convention will be held in San Diego with most time at the Panama-California Exposition They also invite the national body to locate the 1915 convention in California for broader participation and events.
For every person who leaves Texas and moves to another state in the Union, we get eight in return. Read The Herald a year, $1.00.
The Dallas Morning News reports Hon. Tom W. Perkins of Mac Kinney entering the race for Congress. He previously ran two years ago and lost by a narrow margin. the piece praises his cheerful defeat and optimistic, busy character.
The Dallas Times Herald mocks a political clash between Colonel Ball and James Ferguson, proposing a forty acre plowing contest at Eben Ezer's land to boost attendance and win farmer votes in the precinct.
Early Friday an exchange of shots on the highway left M. E. Harris gravely wounded and John H. Carpenter seriously hurt. Both men reside on the Sam Strattton farm near China Springs amid a long-standing feud. Harris is not expected to survive.
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