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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
6
The article celebrates increased goodwill toward Dodge Brothers Motor Car inspired by the War Department effort at home and abroad. It highlights the American soldier and frames the car company as part of national glory and patriotic progress.
Valley Mills items report Dick Harris family moving to Hereford Texas to enter stock business. Mrs Harris rents Louie Cass place on depot street. Elmer Brown of Ocee community dies of influenza. George Sisk visits from San Antonio army camp. D O Barton turns 74. Annie Lloyd Nichols operat ed on for appendicitis. Harris and Nesbitt visit Waco. Raford Harris returns from army and farms Bosque land. Several locals shuttle to Ranger oil fields and Meridian business trips.
An advertisement touts a kidney tonic claiming to support the kidneys and purify the stomach and bowels. It lists a price of $1.25 per bottle by Price & Stuart dated February 1. The copy shifts to a moral aside about hatred between men and women and social interactions.
An old advertisement touts Prickly Ash Bitters as an effective kidney remedy and diuretic. It claims relief from back pain and urges immediate use, priced at $1.26 per bottle.
Second hand threshing outfit for sale including Advance thresher and engine cook shack and all essentials. Located at Bercain A Biffle route 1 Cliftex. 43-4tp
A humorous remark frames a husband’s long night as faithful to his claim of hard labor. The quip relies on dog work as a playful simile, aiming at domestic banter rather than a serious report.
Texas reports show an oil lease of 38000 acres near Longview and a deep test well on Richardson ranch in Sterling county. Knowles farm in Comanche county yields 300 barrels hourly. Temple adopts 42 French war orphans for a year. Father and Son Week proclaimed. Demobilization affects labor. railroad plan in Dallas to restore private rail ownership. road construction surges at 25 million dollars.
The Texas school series by Hon. Annie Webb Blanton urges higher rural teacher salaries and improved school management. The narrative notes a fight over the Twenty third Senatorial district seat and reports the Senate privileges and elections committee upholding Senate supremacy over member qualifications, beyond district court authority.
Capt. Erwin J. Clark of Waco has been named by Governor Hobby to fill the McLennan county nineteenth district court seat after the death of Judge George N. Denton. Clark previously served as judge of the seventy fourth district and was elected to continue.
In Austin the Texas Oklahoma boundary dispute case Texas versus C W Gilliland et al. had its injunction dissolution motion reset to January 31 in the Fifty third district court. The land on the Red River bed, within an oil field, is valued around 1 million dollars.
Warsaw reports M. Paderewski forms a full coalition ministry with himself as premier and foreign minister and a cabinet including M. Wojciechowski interior minister and M. Honda commerce minister. Other posts tied to M. Englich finance M. Janisseewski health M. Eberhardt posts and M. Lindg communications posts.
Secretary Glass says the treasury will launch the Victory Liberty loan probably in the last three weeks of April. The issue is the final big war bond drive, with a target of five to six billion dollars.
Announcement of a merger among United Picture Theaters of America World Film and Perless Producing creating a new organization to control about 1 200 motion picture theaters across the United States in Fort Lee New Jersey and Los Angeles motion picture circles note the scale and regional ties of the deal.
John R. Silliman American consul at Guadalajara since 1916 and U S diplomatic representative with President Carranza from 1914 to 1916 died at Guadalajara of pneumonia recently.
From every town in Texas large enough to support a hardware store dealers attend the twenty first annual convention of the State Hardware and Implement Dealers Association in Dallas.
Two-thirds of the house have signed the bone dry resolution calling for the passage of the measure. The joint resolution was submitted in the senate and referred to committee on constitutional amendments. The woman suffrage amendment extending to women the same right of suffrage was also a joint resolution and referred.
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