This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1911
Page
2
A fragmentary Clifton area page shows diverse items from sales and horse listings to store promotions at City Drug Store Jenson Castleman and others. It mentions residents in Clifton and nearby farms with various goods, appointments, and community scholarly notes.
Governor Colquitt signed measures including a prohibition on selling liquor in disorderly houses with a ninety day lead time and jail penalties. Other acts created an employers liability commission and funded a $10,000 monument for Stephen F. Austin. The session also sent a house concurrent resolution to Congress regarding liquor transport into prohibition states.
The Lutheran College base ball team traveled to Meridian last Saturday and lost to Meridian College 7 to 0. The teams will replay the game on the Lutheran College campus next Saturday afternoon. Mrs J R Leftwich of Moran visited her sister Mrs C Hightower last week.
Classified notice fragment lists sale of items with unclear wording and damaged OCR text. Reads for sale and mentions Farnwrs and vanished or garbled names. Unable to extract full entities or specifics from the readable text.
Public notice from Bosque County Justice Court issuing a citation by publication for W Griffin and J W Griffin. Case filed by Way Connolly & On against Wot Vephe Ded and others. Summary lists four weekly newspaper publications and a damages claim totaling about 1.5, with judgment prayer. Dated Clifton January 24, A D 17.
In Womack reports small town life continues amid scarce news. Robert Epps visited homefolks D.C. Eons and family over the weekend then returned to school Sunday evening. Mrs Herndon is reported as only steps this week. The school shows progress and many names on the honor roll have been handed in for publication.
The article notes a record price paid in McLennan County for two five year old mare mules. Arthur Stewart bought them from Mr. Kirkpatrick of Helin for 800 dollars, weighing 2080 pounds and shipped to Fort Worth for display at the stock show. A curious detail recalls Stewart sold the same pair to Kirkpatrick three years earlier for 850 dollars.
A notice warns stockmen owners near the Water Mill at Clifton Basque area that the caretakers will take care of cattle and horses but will not be responsible for any loss or damages. It requests caution and acknowledges potential gaps in coverage.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.