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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1926
Page
9
Two hundred pounds of Marechal Neil Flour given free on Tuesday May 18 as part of a baking contest. Entries must be in by 3 pm with judging at 4 pm. Prizes include 100 pounds for Best Cake and 50 pounds each for Best Pie and Best Loaf. Flour sold Saturday at $4.90 per hundred.
Clifton College shows strength in the Janke College championship with ten wins in fourteen games. Meridian and Clifton face off as leaders, with Cate and Rhodes among top hitters while Hermidian posts strong averages. A scattered animal mix of filler text accompanies the sports notes.
Betty Campion and Adolph Menjou star in The Past Set. A Free Ride comedy and Fox News. Admission 10 and 35. Friday and Saturday matinee 2 30. Under Western Skies with Norman Kerry. Wild horse and cattle stunts with Pendleton Round-up style show. Double feature with nursery troubles. Adept Menjou and Lillian Rightn in Kiss Us the Dark. Richard Talmadge in The Prince and a Mighty Melodrama. Also Pranceful Riot and Abwers Minded. Coming One Hog Ranger and Bustler's Ranch show.
Norwegian girls attended a 1920 class gathering described as a festive meal with cheese from their own dairy plant and a dinner in a purple gold decorated dining car. Guests included Mr. Benjamin Hutcher who won prizes, with program entertainment and a speech by Hon. W. BD. Ruler.
Fragmentary Farmington report describes a rededicated water well and a home coupling system, with mention of Lakes Michigan and Furchepee clues and a reference to The Gifton Record and Dalles Kem winning a yearly event.
Farm and Ranch warns readers that promises by gubernatorial candidates are impossible without upsetting the Constitution and granting extraordinary powers. It calls for voters to judge based on feasible pledges and to elect capable, principled leaders rather than those making impossible promises to gain support.
The piece argues that a nation’s strength rests on citizens educated across many fields, linking education to morality, health, and humanity. It emphasizes support for better schooling, self defense of life and happiness, and the belief that education in various branches advances residence, influence, and global standing. It references the School journal and local ministers at Wharton, Pa.
A fractured prayer laments misrule and pleads for a virtuous man to lead Texas from eastern pines to western cactus fields. It denounces temptations of power and questions moral leadership, seeking a return to righteous paths and the consent of the governed. The piece frames a call for honest leadership amid national turmoil and civic decay.
Sunday School begins at 10 o clock with no preaching at 11 due to Baccalaureate sermon. Preaching at 1 o clock. Epworth League meets at 7 o clock. T. G. Story, PC.
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