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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
8
Estimates from residents along the San Gabriel River from W. Glasscock to the forks report cotton losses at 50 percent plus thirty thousand bushels of corn destroyed. Over 250 head of livestock killed and more than 100 deaths reported from Georgetown to the river forks. 63 bodies recovered.
Tabor a globe trotter arrived in Houston from Pretoria to obtain the divorce decree recently issued by a Houston judge.
For the first time since Texas suspended sentence law, Cameron county court at Brownsville holds a term without any suspended sentences approved.
A promotional poem urges communal pride and action to boost the town's image. It champions positive talk, public praise, and shared effort from residents to lift the town's profile. Attributed to Richard H. Pugh, it encourages singing praising the town and spreading goodwill.
An advertisement touts TONIC as a blood purifying and energizing medicine. It claims to restore vitality, improve appetite, and color the cheeks, noting iron and quinine as key ingredients and malarial and grip germs destruction. Children reportedly like it. price listed as 60 cents.
Apply a small amount in the nostrils to open air passages and soothe swollen mucous membranes. Immediate relief from nasal congestion and headache with Ely's Cream Balm, advertised as antiseptic and fragrant for cold or catarrh sufferers.
Worth Modessett, bookkeeper for the Thrall Gin Company, lost his pocket watch and chain when it was caught on a wagon boy’s clothing and drawn into seed cotton by suction through the ginstand. Only an inner plate was recovered. the keepsake came from his late father.
A nationwide Home Town Paper Week runs November 7 to 12 encouraging former residents to subscribe to their hometown papers. The program urges people from the Four Corners and other areas to stay connected to the place they once called home and enjoy reading about the local community.
Prominent local names appear in a row of notices from a county seat city paper. Angus Mc Gugan mourns a horse death while Peter McGregor eyes the county clerkship and Horace Jell seeks Hilltown agricultural society secretary post. Lydia Munger opens a millinery shop near the printing office as Mrs. Brown loses a hand satchel in the butchery.
Dr. Dorland attends Clara Brown who is ill with a severe cold while Mrs. Plater lies in the county hospital with a broken ankle. He smiles at old-time styles and expressions and finds joy, his mind returning to cherished boyhood days and happy memories.
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