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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1927
Page
5
Local and personal items list visitors and residents in Cameron and nearby towns. Families from Mt Clement, Houston, Waco, Belton, Mexia, Ada Henderson school faculty, and area businessmen are mentioned along with brief travel notes to Temple, Dallas, Rockdale, and Branchville.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pearce of Houston visit cousin Mrs. Leland Green and family in Rockdale area. Others include Miss Mary Lake Henderson at A. and M. College with Beth Jeter and Don Slocomb, Miss Frances Hause from Baylor, and various travels and recoveries across Temple Waco Dallas and Independence Kansas with residents like Mrs. W. R. Hoover Mrs. Arthur Kruse and Dr. Francis noted.
The Cameron community features in a roundup of Dallas Fair attendance and local visits. Names include Paul Webb, Alex Triggs family with Billy, A N Green, Vernon Roberts, Delphyn Scott returning from Dallas, and others visiting Waco, Rockdale, and Cameron homes.
Mr and Mrs R N Clark and their baby are spending a few days vacation with his parents Mr and Mrs W S Clark at Edinburg after visiting Kenedy and before Cameron.
Mr and Mrs George Clark and baby of Needville spent last weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs Wallace Moody.
Antone Bayer of Marekville area visited The Herald in Cameron last Friday to renew his subscription. He reported a fire at his farm the previous night burned about 90 bales of hay baled for winter use. The blaze, discovered around 11 pm, quickly destroyed the stored hay.
A Tokyo report claims women are favored over men for pearl diving at Tohoku Japan due to greater underwater endurance. The article notes this gender advantage amid local pearl fisheries and cultural expectations.
The text notes that kissing became a fashionable social gesture in late Roman Empire days. Women meeting men in public were often greeted with a kiss as a customary practice.
A 12 year old Asiatic elephant named Poetre steamed with water from its trunk during an orchestral recording session at a Philadelphia zoo. The animal’s spray startled the musicians as they captured animal reactions to jazz.
Wilbur Looney of Dallas is visiting his friend Leo Wilkerson in Cameron this week.
Miss Clyde Baskin, a student at Southewestern University, spent last weekend with her mother Mrs Howard Baskin. Also an ad notes Mrs Allie Kinard seeks an assistant for plain sewing in Cameron Texas.
J. S. Jacobs of Minerva visited Cameron on Tuesday and paid his annual Herald subscription and placed an ad for his Sandy Creek property. Trespassers and hunters are prohibited, as recent activity caused damage to his trees.
Mr. Charlie McDermott spent a few days in Dallas at the Fair. He was in company with Mr. Jim Kemp of Dallas who had been here on business.
Miss Agnes Henderson is visiting her sister Mrs Boyd Wells in Austin.
Mrs Kestenbaum hosted a Friday afternoon gathering for 42 guests in Mrs L Kestenbaum's honor. Decorations mirrored prior events with orange candle sticks as table favors and a luncheon served. Awards went to Mrs Joe Denson for a bird vase and to Mrs Cobb for a novelty china tray.
An advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use remedy to darken gray faded hair. It claims natural even coloring after dampening a brush and applying strand by strand, with effects seen by morning and after a few applications.
An advertising pitch urges Americans to guard kidney health by drinking soft water and Tad Salts a product described as grape and lemon acid lithia water. It claims to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys reduce acid, relieve back pain and frequent urination, and suggests medical checkups twice yearly.
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