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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1926
Page
7
A local dry cleaner advertises affordable suit fitting services and spring cleaning with pressing options. The promotion emphasizes reasonable pricing and invites customers to update their wardrobes for the season.
The April 9 1926 Cayote News reports a Bride-to-be Shower for Miss Ella Marth at Mrs Bill Bryans home with gifts and an Easter program. She later wed Ollie Fiefer of Elgin Texas and plans to live in Elgin.
C J Shoup surveys era woes from West Point contrasts to Mexico church tensions and Prohibition polls. He riffs on Arctic dangers, dancing injuries, Germany’s stores, Germany Mexico church balance, British ship fires, sound extinguishing fire, and calls for peace, investigations, and stronger enforcement of the dry law while lampooning Texas politics and Ma Ferguson.
An advertisement by O M Bronstad invites threshers to buy pumps suction hoses valves pipes feeders weighers and belts with a special price on Rumely Special Friction Rubber Endless Drive Belts. He offers separators or tractors and promises to discuss details.
In autumn hundreds of picket fences were erected along public highways in New York and the Midwest to prevent drifting snow from covering roads. The effort aims to improve winter travel safety and visibility for motorists.
The Clifton Record and the Dallas News raise annual subscriptions to 2.50 dollars. Readers are notified of the new rate and ongoing delivery terms.
The essay contrasts East Texas redbuds with West Texas bluebonnets praising their beauty and urging Texans to value surroundings over politics. It advocates unity to develop the state, notes soil disparities in Fannin County, and explains that parole and conditional pardon distinctions in Texas hinge on specifics beyond.
Editorial note observes pervasive statewide jests and slurs in Texas papers, noting frequent cross-state ribbing. Readers confront tongue in cheek remarks that fuel controversy and prompt calls for respectful discourse across East West North and Central Texas.
Hamilton Texas records the heaviest rainfall in over a year with 3.5 inches in 12 hours. The storm caused pecan groves along the town to flood and washed out the water main on East Main Street, cutting water to the eastern part of town.
The text compares conditional pardons and paroles, noting both let a convict go free if they avoid crime. Parole adds a paid supervisor, often a friend who pays a monthly sum and relies on the parolee’s work. In practice the distinction is likened to tweedlededee and tweedle dum.
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