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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1914
Page
3
Ben Arnold Texas reports a weekend church attendance at Walkers Creek and an entry audience for a Sunday school fundraiser. Miss Stone and Patterson lead a box plant offering food and flowers to the Methodist Orphan Home at Waco.
A mother shares how she taught her son at home before school by letting him type simple sentences and copy words. He learns to read by recognizing capitals and periods then begins to read aloud from a Mother Goose reader. He imitates stories about Jack and Jill and Old Mother Hubbard, then begins reading for real.
The article argues that poultry is the cheapest farm meat source, with hens yielding yearly profit and turkeys geese and guineas boosting family supplies and insect control. It also highlights hogs sheep and cows as profitable additions, noting pigs provide pork from scraps, sheep clear weeds, and cows convert rough feed into milk butter and calves, maximizing farm productivity.
Belmena reports weeks since Herald representation with community notes of land clearing for another year, a gold worther, ice, and hog deaths. J D Baker returned from Mexia and Palestine, Mrs Matocha allegedly with child, Lige Edmonds back from the west six weeks, Rickett Dodson and Jessie Story united in marriage at Bro Carr, Dodson joining community residents, Sunday preaching day, large Sunday school turnout despite few old residents, many visitors including John and Ben Kennon Elbert Martin Tom Havercorn Miss Wilson Harman Thweatt with further notes from Miss Boker.
A returning traveler describes London theaters where four national anthems are played nightly. Audiences rise solemnly for God Save the King the Marseillaise the Russian anthem and the Belgian. He notes the ritual and prefers the music he finds in the world’s finest tunes.
Health advice promotes daily fruit intake with emphasis on canned and some fresh fruit. Recommend fresh green vegetables, thorough washing, and inclusion of bulky low-value vegetables like carrots, parsnips, spinach, turnips, squash, and cabbage. Advise slow eating, rest when tired, and barley water as a safe cooling drink with barley, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice.
Mark Thistlewaite, private secretary to Vice-president Marshall, found a 30 page crank letter in official mail. He read three pages and left it on his chief's desk to amuse him. Marshall entered, paused, then asked who would bark for him when he keeps a dog.
An English chemist, Turpinite, first achieved the discovery enabling a deadly gas. A generation ago he told the British Association how he produced a genius gas so fatal that even a tiny release could transform it into a terrible war engine, after years of experimentation.
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