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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
4
The fragment references Forney Messenger commenting on the lack of walls and calls for a stronger city council role to extend sidewalks across town. It also includes garbled text about stores, illnesses, and a dubious city sale, with scattered names and phrases from multiple unrelated sources.
At a Crawford Independent School District meeting the board adopted J H Allen's resolution to allow residents' children to receive free schooling up to age 19. The report also notes unrelated advertisements and local notices appearing in the same issue.
J M Matthews declares he solved artificial rain making with a device named rainclette. He claims to induce showers anywhere after 32 years of study, recounting a previous crude machine and a failed due to boiler power. He touts operating along scientific lines and notes new patents and plans to perfect the device.
Governor Colquitt pardoned two elderly Black inmates after personal inspection of conditions at the Texas penitentiary. Some prisoners had long sentences and could not recall their crimes or sentencing counties. The news item also mentions emancipation pay and other unrelated notes including a road demonstration by Navarre County and miscellaneous health and advertisement content.
An election is called for June 2 in Rowenberse to vote a bonds issue of 75 dollars for building roads. The readable text mentions city names and unrelated garbled fragments, with no clear further details on candidates or entities.
A scanned notice describes Coron Palos Association building plans in Woen Mars and a San Antonio company offering investments and a Foley’s Howey half-billion venture. It also reports a fatal runaway in China Saris county injuring a daughter and husband, along with drugstore ads and medical patent claims.
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