This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1914
Page
4
An OCR fragment notes Cameron area references including Pomoffice and a stated annual price of 1.00 dollars per year. The readable bits provide no clear event or action beyond listing names and locations.
The Sanger Bros. move from Waco to Dallas is noted with broader calls to diversify crops and promote a sewer program in West. The Regal Shoe Co joins buy-a-bale, expecting to purchase about four hundred bales this season. Dallas furthers cotton relief funding while Agriculture Secretary urges crop diversification.
A San Antonio firm received an order for 1 500 sets of horse harness for military escort trains used by the French army with completion in 60 days and about 100 000 dollars projected for the city. Four state normal schools will admit graduates to UT junior class, raising teaching standards. Cotton statistics show McLennan county ginned 31 480 bales this year versus 49 893 last year, a drop of 15 415 bales.
George Brandt, an enterprising Fayette county farmer, urges farmers to focus more on hog raising and less on cotton. He reports no trouble selling hogs at top Texas prices while cotton markets collapse, with a carload sent to Fort Worth bringing a handsome return.
A Fort Worth wholesale firm argues cotton is worth market price and compares costs of farm inputs to show farmers gain from 7 to 8 cents per pound. It urges retailers to press farmers to sell cotton, warns against delaying sales to avoid financial strain on merchants.
The date for presenting the silver service recently bought for the battleship Texas is November 7. The Young Men's Business League of Waco helped raise most of the 7500 dollars for the service and will participate in the presentation exercises. Governor Colquitt will deliver the presentation speech and also helped raise the funds.
An Eddy session of the Waco Baptist association voted to boycott the Waco Cotton Palace due to Sunday shows. The writer, not a Baptist, argues the move may backfire as many will attend anyway, noting many view Sunday as a day for recreation.
A historical letter urges merchants and customers to pressure farmers to sell cotton and pay debts to relieve retail and wholesale creditors. Cons. E. Nasu of Nash Hardware Co argues delayed sales harm the entire economy and jeopardize workers and charity.
The Corpus Christi Democrat touts a Nueces county Sudan grass farm netting about 700 dollars per acre on 366 acres this year totaling over 250000 dollars. The paper urges planting more acres if true and even at lower returns compares to cotton. Also Judge Wilcox dissolves injunction to place McLemore on the ballot as democratic nominee for congressman at large in November in a final step of the nomination dispute.
The city of Waco ends the steam whistle saying its noise disturbs residents. Proponents argue it is essential, while critics note the whistle often wakes people at night and early morning, urging change.
A dollar alarm clock will rouse the early riser just as surely as a steam whistle and disturb only those it targets. The device promises simple timing and silent operation for residents who need a reliable wake up.
Texas railroads reported $2,846,117 in damage claims for the past fiscal year, an increase exceeding $80,000 from the previous year. The figure highlights growing liability across the state’s rail network and reflects the costs of accidents and property damage borne by the industry.
The court held that intoxicating liquor may be delivered into dry territory if it is shown the liquor will not be used to violate any act. This ruling concerns the Allison liquor law and last week’s legislative actions.
Ex parte Elmer Preede of Kaufman county sees the relator discharged after the Court of Criminal Appeals rules no intrastate violation under the Allison liquor law when four quarts shipped interstate were to be used lawfully. Justice Harper writes the opinion, with Justice Davidson concurring, upholding the law's constitutionality and widening its effect.
A remark quotes the sensible farmer predicting self sufficiency next year, implying rising independence from credit for food and avoidance of hunger through local production.
An unreadable archival fragment mentions Cheney & Cog Teatimen in Ohio with references to a medicine or care product. It hints at internal use and a branded name associated with Catarth Care. No clear event or date is discernible.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.