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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1923
Page
4
The Clifton Record announces weekly publication details with subscription options. Rates listed include one year six months and three months, payable in advance, under postal registration for Clifton Texas.
Rate card listing display advertising at 26 cents per inch and extra charges for special positions per line at 19 cents and black face type at 1 cent per line. Includes local advertising per line charges.
A report notes the birth of the thirteenth child to Mr. and Mrs. EM Robertson of Aub Glace. Acting Governor Davidson handles state affairs during Governor Nef’s absence. The item includes unclear phrases about Mesican and a courier, with no clear outcome.
Plainview Texas July 14 RH Green earned 1500 this spring and summer by garden work beside his barber job. He spends fourteen hours daily between shop and garden, harvesting ninety one onions from a thirty foot row weighing fifty four pounds. He says an acre of sock onions could fetch 10000 at current markets and expects irrigation powered truck farming to become the area’s main industry.
Detroit reports Willys-Overland produced its millionth car on June 12, firsts this year to reach the milestone. Dodge Brothers and two others have crossed one million. industry notes this was the fourth such maker. Local items include steer shipments to Fort Worth market and community notices from Clifton to Waco.
Walnut Springs July 15 business along the Texas Central branch of the M. K. & T. Railroad is rising due to heavy crop movement. Locomotive work and machine shops are running full tilt with more crews being employed to meet the rush.
United States dispatch from New York reports a cryptic statement about transport to the White House. The text notes July and mentions a person or entity identified as Reet ind Os Da in uncertain OCR fragments. The fragmentary item hints at a political or social remark but lacks clear details or outcomes.
Brownsville Texas July 16 a champion cotton boll from near the Rio Grande was brought in by farmer Primitive Balle showing 194 bolls with 80 opened. New Orleans July 16 Gov Pat Neff of Texas and Gov Parker of Louisiana plan a conference with bankers and others at the Cotton Exchange to discuss the nationwide boll weevil fight aided by Claude Reeves and campaign leaders.
A Galveston Galveston county field report by Victor Schoffelmayer asserts a Romanian Hungarian plant breeder developed a remarkable grafted cotton variety. One grafted plant yielded 917 bolls this season. parent plant last year produced 542 bolls. The tall plant showed eight feet height and six feet diameter with diverse boll results and potential high yields. George gathered fifty nine pounds of seed cotton from three grafted plants last season, projecting five bales per acre.
In Texarkana July 16 a jail break ends with Sheriff Barber’s sister Eugenia Barber seizing a fugitive by pistol point and forcing him to return to the Miller County jail. The man Beard is awaiting trial for grand larceny and had briefly escaped into the yard. Evangelist C R Nichol plans further revival, while John and Mrs Ludwig announce a new baby boy.
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