The Bain Wagon Ownership Promise
The Bain Wagon promises a strong long wearing wagon for buyers seeking durability. It notes that owning the Bain Wagon implies choosing a high quality product and emphasizes enduring performance.
08 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
1
The Bain Wagon promises a strong long wearing wagon for buyers seeking durability. It notes that owning the Bain Wagon implies choosing a high quality product and emphasizes enduring performance.
Bosque County draft board sent 485 men to Meridian for a physical exam. Of 306 listed, many qualified for General Service while others were placed in limited service or found physically deficient. Names include FE Auldridge and Claude C. Allen among Meridian residents. exact call dates remain unknown.
Last Monday afternoon Clifton welcomed a Colorado to Gulf Highway logging party from Merriam and others. D J Tally of Wichita Falls president and J D Parnell of Vernon secretary delivered brief talks praising Bosque County roads and materials for permanent roads at low cost. Postmaster J N Fallis thanked visitors and noted a first class road for tourists and residents is near.
In Clifton Texas the Boy Scout movement marks nine years. Troop 1 plans Father and Son events including a Sunday sermon at First Presbyterian Church by Assistant Scoutmaster Ernest Sansom and a Monday hike supper banquet for fathers and friends.
Amsterdam reports the arrest of an artist who designed paper money in Prussia on a charge of ridiculing the fatherland. The marginal designs included foods like a ham and turnips with captions such as This is how the Germans live and A tender memory and a fond hope.
The Red Cross expresses thanks for recent gifts from Norse Horse Protective Association led by Peder Dahl worth 15 dollars, Magazine-European Club giving 10 dollars, Lutheran Ladies Aid contributing 4.95 dollars, and Dr. Burton R. Carpenter donating 16 dollars as examining physician compensation. Mrs Bettis serves as Treasurer.
A community notice urges boys to seize the chance to meet peers and support the war effort. Woodrow Wilson’s call praises efforts to boost War Efficiency of the Boy Scouts of America as a real national contribution.
The Allied and neutral nations face manpower and shipping shortages, risking famine in Europe and among civilians. North America must increase food production and savings. A weekly plan calls for wheatless days on Monday and Wednesday, meatless Tuesday, porkless Tuesday and Saturday, plus daily fat and sugar saving, with emphasis on fruits vegetables and potatoes under Fred M. Huggins, Federal Food Administrator for Bosque County.
John Goode a Van Zandt county merchant was indicted for abusive language toward President Wilson. Twenty nine Rains county citizens were indicted for conspiracy against the government and evading the draft law. Bonds set at 1000 for Goode and 2000 for each of the others with April term trial in Tyler. Cases linked to Farmers and Laborers Protective association and Working Class union trials in Oklahoma.
Paul Schultz of New Baden Texas becomes the first Texas retailer restricted by the Food Administration. He sold sugar in 100 and 200 pound lots during January, violating the limit of five pounds per town customer and ten pounds per country customer. Wholesale grocers were told not to sell Schultz goods and he was barred from purchasing goods elsewhere.
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