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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
4
The piece notes bomb outrages hurting Tom Mooney and California while warning of disordered minds from passion and prejudice. It cites bold Mexican rebels, a Costa Rican army near Nicaragua seeking US troop landings, and critiques prohibition taxes as flawed. It mentions a French aviator reaching 81,000 feet and forecasts ongoing upheaval affecting business leaders and politics.
The piece surveys postwar naval policy, labor party protests over interned German ships, shifting global fortunes in trade and naval power, and the fate of war losses. It notes U S naval strength rising from ninth to second by tonnage, Germany’s relative drop, and ship losses from U boats and mines. It also welcomes back Major Denson Corporal Howell Otis Burke and Lt Baskin of the 36th and 90th Divisions.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine offering a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. It claims thirty five years of use, blood purification, and healing of mucous surfaces, urging readers to start treatment.
A breathless boy rushes into a police station urging an ambulance after his mother found the woman who pinched a doormat. The kid explains the need as the mother locates the thief, while other light quips from various papers reflect a string of brief humor items.
A nostalgic verse by C. C. Walsh describes a thriving Western Texas scene. Farmers ranchers and oil men report cheap grain high livestock prices abundant crops and busy crews while optimism runs high and drought fears fade.
Postmaster Jeff T. Kemp urges citizens to exchange Liberty Loan interest coupons due June 15 for War Savings and Thrift Stamps. He emphasizes saving and investing habits and says he will be at the post office to assist Patrons with the investment.
Cameron Herald editor and Cameron Commercial Club secretary John E. Cooke attended the Texas Commercial Executives Association meeting in San Antonio on June 12 to help plan the Waco gathering June 26 to 28. Notables included Geo J. Roark and other chamber leaders. Rockdale’s secretary also invited.
Rev. W. R. Hall of Milford spoke at the Presbyterian church last Tuesday on Christian education in the state campaign. The cartoonish exchange about favorites and jokes closes with the punchline about the Thin Man and Fat Man.
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