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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1923
Page
7
A boy from Ills Gap, Texas, son of Mr and Mrs D Tindall of Crawfills Gap, died Tuesday afternoon at 8:60 in a local sanitarium. The body will be sent Tuesday morning by the Common Undertaking company to Hiew. He is survived by two brothers, Clyde Tindal and Daye.
An old newspaper ad touts calomel as a safe liver stimulant and promises quick health benefits. It pressures readers with phrases like surely reach the liver and guarantees feeling better by tomorrow, noting twenty listed reasons and urging trial.
Local residents report many visitors and short trips. Santa Ana guests Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foote, Sr, and others visit families in Turley, Crawford, and Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Candle plan Amarillo move after their Clovis NM wedding. The International Baby Chick Association plans its eighth annual convention in Washington DC on August 9 to 11.
Huntsville Texas June 29 reports the electric chair nearing completion at the Hurtaville penitentiary for executions. A new lex lagure bill proposes that all executions should occur where the state penitentiary sits, prompting a statewide push to gather data for installation. Commissioned officials visited Little Rock and Whitester to secure details on electric chair setup for Buntsville.
A fragmented reader piece mocks editors versus doctors and laments on how editors err while doctors correct. It then shifts to praise for Dr Norris and his Dur ongoing fight against Darwinian evolution in universities, urging more preachers to join the battle and defend biblical creation.
Local report details a quiet wedding two miles east of Hanson Home near Cranfills Gap as Miss Hattie Hanson wed Professor Tyrsen of Clifton. Miss Hanson, a graduate nurse from St Paul Sanitarium, and Tyrsen, former Clifton College president, begin a Northern State honeymoon after the ceremony. Also noted are visits by Mr and Mrs Ratux Joven, and several local incidents including a thresher accident near Fairy and a lightning death south of Fairy.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church schedules Sunday School and Bible Class at 1 90 a m, worship at 10 20 a m, voting members meeting at 2 30, English service at 8 00 p m. Evening sermon subject: Jerne Re Serveth Sinners. You are welcome, Rev. A Bartling.
A fragment shows a comic exchange where a professor frets over six weeks without a kiss, asking who has been kissed, in a humorous dialogue about memory and romantic lapse. The line captures a light, inexact note of social banter.
The death of Alexander D. Mebane of Lockhart recalls the loss of leading Texas cotton breeders. W B Truitt of Waskahatche also died recently, marking a rapid departure of pioneers in cotton breeding. Mebane was praised for developing a meritorious cotton variety and advancing Southern agriculture. The notice also mentions Scandinavian Lutheran Sunday School and a bird import figure from the Biological Survey noting over 17,500 birds imported in April under permits.
A notice dated near June 1 describes lost belongings between Ice and Waco including a rocking chair a small walnut table and a box with an electric fan and other items. A reward is offered for information leading to their recovery from T J Jordan of Hico Texas, care Jordan Spencer Company Yate.
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