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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1931
Page
7
Clifton Chick Hatchery advertises a 30 000 egg capacity for custom hatching. It notes shipments on Monday and Thursday but will accept eggs any day of the week and thanks customers for their business.
Local church notes show The Methodist quarterly conference convening Sunday with invitation to attend. The Workers Council to meet Saturday evening at the church. Updates include residents moving to Coyote community and locals bidding farewell to departing families. Various visitors and guests from Clifton College and nearby towns attended events this week and several social visits occurred among residents.
Petroleum coke priced at eight cents per hundredweight as a fuel option. Descriptive note highlights its coal-like burn and ash production referencing Oh Rachaig and Clitton locations.
Austin huckster Arnold Fain-Burn testifies Argotane cured long stomach disorders after 19 years of pain and failed remedies. He reports resumed appetite, no headaches, and improved health after two doses. Argotane sold at Clifton Carpenter Bros. drug store.
A reader notes that many free African Americans owned enslaved people before the Civil War. Citing Prof. Woodson’s Free Negro Heads of Families, the piece cites figures such as one South Carolina free man with 200 slaves and others owning dozens, with estimates of up to 100,000 slaves held by some 40,000 free Black individuals.
Local items from Valley Mills highlight improving health of Little T. P. Crawford and various residents visiting relatives in Fort Worth, Gatesville, and Crawford. Includes notes on families, parental visits, and a humorous anecdote about a squirrel incident and a reflective monologue on future building plans.
Fort Worth, Jan. 10 Joe Knipp, known to North side residents for over 40 years, visited friends this morning. He suddenly burst into hearty laughter and died of heart trouble.
Crick et Hicks gains fame for church singing while neighbors gossip about a garage hire. A rumor says a new mechanic at Tickville Garage was the same old worker in disguise. Columbus Allsop rises early, neighbors wonder who was sick as he acts surprised.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions medical treatment and vermifuges sold by Price & Stuart, a Texan state note on gas and fuel consumption, and a prompt to pick up city tax receipts at the City Office. The text is unreadable in parts but preserves references to trade, health, energy use, and municipal notices.
The Literary Society presented a fine program but attendance was small due to weather. Plans called for a 4 pm event Friday with a social hour and entertainment. Basketball games with Boggy School were postponed because of rain and a different entertainment is planned later.
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