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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1922
Page
3
Local text lists subscription rates and billing terms for Clifton Texas edition. Details show one year six months three months options with prepaid prices and a note on post office mailing as Second Class Matter.
The piece notes a political mix up in Texas and endorses a Dallas State Fair that is described as exceptionally strong. It mentions a joking campaign turning serious, contemplates Clifton hosting a style show, and highlights larger cotton crops with a needed rain for fall grain sowing. It also mentions Clifton escaping dengue and hopes no cases arise.
The Mart Herald urges proper Armistice Day observance on November 11 and calls for a suitable public program. It condemns swearing in front of children and stresses that a child judges adults by their actions and should see restraint from adults who curse.
Five rooms and two large halls with a bath and modern conveniences. Nearly new garage and woodshed. Finest shade trees in town one block from the business part. For prices and terms see Olaf Westgaard with Clifton Mercantile Co. tfe.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company has placed orders for 5 150 new freight cars with deliveries starting January 1. The batch includes 2 000 refrigerator cars 1 000 box cars 1 000 automobile cars and 150 cabooses. Officials say the move will ease the car shortage.
A Prohibition report from North Carolina says moonshiners add horse, cow and sheep manure to their white lightning to give it a kick. Manure piles are described as commonly found near still sites in the tar heel state.
The Clifton Record and the Dallas News set annual rates at two dollars and sixty cents, affecting local readers and subscription plans.
New York officials reveal John D. Rockefeller has the largest personal estate assessment in the state. He must pay on 2,000,000 dollars personally. Other 1,000,000 dollar assessees include J Pierpont Morgan and Dorothy Caruso among a list of notable individuals.
The piece argues that 95 percent of American businesspeople fail at some point and that a government pledge to guarantee saving wages or business income is absurd. It notes individuals must maintain energy and foresight, contrasting with Russia's communistic experiment and its disastrous outcome.
Fire destroyed the J. L. Newsome gin at Steiner Thursday night, starting in a gin stand and spreading through the plant. Losses include machinery, several hundred bushels of cotton seed, and much cord wood. Insurance was only a small fraction of the total.
E H Farrell of near Morgan was in town Wednesday for trading activities.
The Comanche Chief reports Miss Glennie Hoff daughter of J P Hoff of Stephenville was elected to a position at Comanche High School Monday night She will assist in the English department and teach chemistry She is an alumna of the College of Industrial Arts Denton and is praised for character and duty Miss Hoff previously taught in Clifton and is related to Mrs J E Swenson and Mr O J Rea
A verse by Walt Mason recounts small acts of kindness toward strangers. The speaker grinds through a day feeding a penniless man, giving twenty cents, comforting a pup, easing fears, and comforting a widow, noting the market value of kindness is nil yet priceless in evening reflection.
A sharp quip set shows a modern girl retorting to an old granny. The granny grouses about manners while the youngest asserts needles assist in making the Victrola play, highlighting a clash of eras and tools.
Notes describe plastic wood made from fine wood meal with putty like consistency. It sets hard and waterproof, can be turned in a lathe, and nails drive without cracking. Also reports of a 93 foot coal seam in Queensland, dunes east of Winnemucca, and $5000 prize in Trujillo Peru for a 60 foot Liberty monument model.
A program proposes two to three hundred farms of twenty acres each to be laid out in eastern North Carolina as Farm City. The land is to be sold to men and women of means seeking an independent farm home away from school and office life.
In a historic shift Pope Pius XI brings his mother’s old maid into the papal household causing Cardinals to protest. The piece notes the move sets a precedent for future successors and marks a rare modern change within the Vatican.
Cotton, described as a bankrupt stock of merchandise, is being offered quickly by ginners to buyers at bargain prices. Buyers are eager to secure the cotton at these reduced rates.
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