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Newspaper
Carrollton Chronicle
Location
Carrollton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1938
Page
2
Car rollton Texas postal entry presents a civic exhortation stressing citizenship as the sum of character and habits. It argues communities succeed only with a strong foundation of Christian principles, recalling forebears who built on faith and sacrifice and urging ongoing support to preserve Christianity in society.
A fragment essay-like piece critiques social security as a long-standing private industry providing varied protections for individuals and families. The text mocks government attempts to reshape agricultural fruit and hints at a satirical portrait of a handyman named Dave Dingbat, contrasting service costs with personal misfortune and economic vulnerability.
The piece profiles Leater Nostis, once a newspaper illustrator who married a Chicago heiress and bought a small Illinois paper. He prefers work to leisure, choosing a job that offers creative drawing time and keeps him busy rather than a life of ease.
An expert coffeemaker importer argues that spending a million dollars on advertising can lift per person annual coffee consumption by eighty cups. Citing a European immigrant who built a cannery and canned soup, he notes initial sales rose to half a million cans, then surged after persistent plain advertising. He claims yearly ad expenses exceed a million dollars, yet profits rise with clear, conspicuous campaigns and strong product value.
Mrs Hooker Vandergriff and others travel to New Orleans for a football training session under Coach A Browning and Assistant Walter Davis starting Monday August 22. About 40 boys have joined. Joe Bailey graduates with honors from NTSYO in Denton on Wednesday August 24 at 8 p.m. RB Pierce spends summer with parents in Carrollton. Tolbert Jones, once of Carrollton, involved in a gate accident with an arm injury. Frank Good remodeling their home adding sleeping porches a bathroom and repainting. The local shop boasts modern equipment and services.
A Fort Worth Star Telegram excerpt argues wastefulness stems from indifference to saving and lack of early training. It stresses teaching conservation at home and school, and cites agricultural studies on fattening steer feeds, urging personal responsibility and protection of public property.
The Carrollton column lists candidates for the Demerara Primary including 10 win owned figures in Texaw on July 23, 1938, naming FRANK M. SMITH for Commissioner District 1 and GEMUALD for Attorney General. Also notes Mrs. Jim Sears’s visit in Hagerman Texas, community event at NTSTC in Denton, a serious burn incident from matches, paper subscription details, and local editorial comments urging community support for Carrollton.
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