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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
14
The war effort elevates the Dodge Brothers Motor Car as a symbol of American spirit. Soldiers praise the car, sharing its value with family and friends at home, celebrating its wartime role and national pride.
Dick Harris and family will relocate to Hereford Texas to enter the stock business. Mrs W H Harris rents the Louie Cass place on Depot Street and moved Monday afternoon. Elmer Brown of the Ocee community died Tuesday morning of influenza.
George Sisk returned from a visit with home folks in Hamilton after a Army camp stay in San Antonio. Uncle D. O. Barton celebrated his 74th birthday at his city home last Tuesday. Dr. Lee Helm of Mart was here Sunday afternoon for Ford repairs. Annie Lloyd Nichols underwent appendicitis surgery last week and is recovering well. C. E. Dansby Carl Nesbitt and Dick Harris were visitors from Waco Monday. Raeford Harris, home from the army camp, moves to his mother's Bosque farm for the year. Claude Stewart of the Chevrolet Service Station visited Hamilton home folks Saturday and Sunday. Charley Simmons and I Lane visited Ranger oil fields at the week's start. J. W. Henry of near Mosheim looked for oil leases in Burk Burnett district last week. Jim Shaw Chas A Smith and W A McNemar conducted business in Meridian Monday.
An advertisement touts Prickly Ash Bitters as a fine kidney tonic that strengthens kidneys and purifies the stomach and bowels. It lists price at $1.25 per bottle by Price & Stuart and is dated February 1. It pairs moral musings on hatred with an abrupt, unrelated closing line about a woman's smile.
A medicinal notice claims back pain signals kidney disease and advises using Prickly Ash Bitters as an effective remedy. It lists a price of $1.26 per bottle and promotes the product as a kidney treatment.
Second hand threshing outfit including Advance thresher and engine cook shack and all needed items. Will sell at a bargain. A Biffle route 1 Clifton. 43-4tp.
A man tells his wife he had to work all night and “work like a dog.” The remark plays on a common expression about doglike labor, inviting lighthearted skepticism about his tale.
The report notes multiple developments across Texas including a new Anderson county swine breeders association with twenty members led by president B F Rogers, a deep test oil well at the Richardso ranch in Sterling county, and a 38000 acre lease near Longview by a foreign company with 15 inch-bore operations. It also covers road bond approvals in Montague and Matagorda counties, a record oil well on the Knowles farm in Comanche county, and demobilization effects on Texas labor.
Annie Webb Blanton proposes better salaries for rural teachers and longer trustee terms to ensure stable school management across Texas counties and districts. She emphasizes statewide improvements in public instruction and continuity in governance.
Austin Texas Glasscock wins preliminary fight in the contest for the seat of the territorial district The senate committee on privileges and elections sustains Glasscock's claim that the senate is supreme with references to member qualifications and its jurisdiction beyond district court.
Capt Erwin J Clark of Waco named by Governor Hobby to fill the nineteenth district judgeship in McLennan county following Judge Denton’s death. Clark previously served as judge of the seventy fourth district court and was elected to a new term.
The motion to dissolve the injunction in the Texas vs Gilliland case on the Red River boundary has been reset for January 31 in the Fifty third district court. The disputed land on the river bed is valued at about $1,000,000 and lies in the heart of an oil field.
Warsaw reports a full coalition ministry formed by M. Paderewski. The line up includes Paderewski as premier and foreign minister. Wojci achowski as interior minister. Honca as finance minister. Englich as public health minister. Janis seewski as communications minister. Eberhardt as posts and telegraphs minister. Lindq as commerce minister.
Secretary Glass says only one more big war loan drive will be issued. The Victory Liberty loan is expected in the last three weeks of April with an amount not exceeding six billion dollars and possibly five billion dollars.
Announcement of a merger among United Picture Theaters of America World Film Company and Perless Producing of Fort Lee New Jersey forms a new organization with control over about 1300 motion picture theaters across the United States.
John R. Silliman, American consul at Guadalajara since 1916 and a U S diplomatic representative with President Carranza from 1914 to 1916, died at Guadalajara of pneumonia recently.
From a Texas revue comes word that the twenty first annual convention of the State Hardware and Implement Dealers association will be attended by dealers from across the state as the hardware trade gathers in Dallas.
Two thirds of the house support the bone-dry resolution urging passage. Joint resolutions move to the senate committees on constitutional amendment. A woman suffrage amendment granting women the same voting rights as men was referred to the constitutional committee.
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