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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
9
The Methodist church invites worship on Easter Sunday with special decorations and music. Rev. W. E. Carter, Ph D, of Australia, will deliver a special sermon as Cameron leaders call for a great revival and united prayer. Last Sunday night saw many seek prayers, says pastor J. T. Smith.
Cheeves Bros launches spring millinery with new hats and dresses as Easter looms early. Miss Carter announced a hat for every child and every woman in Milam County, while the store’s Copenhagen blue artificial flowers and mushroom hats drew crowds. Hallie Chamberlain Ethel Mitcham Minnie Edwards and Hallie Butts assisted at the opening.
The event showcased Miss Anna Bess Barnett's hats with mushroom shapes loose ribbon bows and white ostrich plumes. Attendees noted ideal weather and a Thursday rush as pattern hats sold quickly aided by assistants Cora Barron Quenie Sapp Vera Lesovsky and Myrtle Buckner.
The Houston Post launches another education contest awarding a scholarship to the school of the winner. Miss Julia Frierson of this city has entered for a musical scholarship and seeks friends to help by saving coupons and voting with each subscription.
A subscription drive to raise 1000 dollars for a Colored Orphanage of the Silver Fleece and Leaf order began in Cameron. E M Robertson led the effort and gathered about 200 in half a day. A 3000 dollar committee match would reach 4000 for the orphanage. A local drug ad promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup at Pace's New Drug Store.
The Fifth Sunday meeting of the Little River Baptist Association is set for Milano Baptist Church on March 30 and 31, 1907. Schedule lists sermons, devotions, church finance and missions talks led by W. C. Garrett, S. H. Pollard, A. L. Davis, M. W. Mitchell and others with invites to all friends to attend and a card to J. B. Newton or Dr. Hudson for housing arrangements.
George Chaplin and Maggie Bonedin, both described as Negroes, were walking to church when he proposed and she refused. He drew a razor and wounded her slightly, then wounded himself in the windpipe, with serious injuries possibly fatal. The incident ends with the man dying, the woman left injured, in a grim sensational note.
The Texas Christian Advocate reports Rev J T Smith of Cameron as a dynamic preacher whose work has drawn unprecedented prayer meetings and church services. He travels across districts and stations, visiting homes and expanding church activity with strong local traction. In Bryan, Rev Challenner, formerly of Cameron, leads a $10,000 church construction contract in that city.
Cameron Texas laundry advertises dry goods and linens including napkins napkins sold per dozen and various pillow items. The listing shows prices such as 10 cents for napkins and 25 cents for single blankets and double blankets at the Acme Steam Laundry. It also mentions bed ticks towels and quilts among other fabric items and household linens.
A garbled OCR snippet shows scattered prices and items including jellies and multiple monetary figures. The readable elements list amounts such as 2.50 and 6.00 but lack context, quantities, or dates.
A mixed set of medical ads and notices including Foley's Honey and Tar claims curing a severe cold and pneumonia, Dr Shoop's Cough Cure with free trial size, warnings about poison marks on labels, and a legal notice from Milam County Texas regarding Willie W Lewis estate final account and discharge hearing set for April 1 1907 in Cameron with Clerk Jeff T Kemp.
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