Clifton Record Weekly Subscription Notice
Clifton Record advertises a weekly Friday morning issue with a subscription price of one dollar a year. The notice urges readers to subscribe for timely local news and community updates delivered every week.
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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
2
Clifton Record advertises a weekly Friday morning issue with a subscription price of one dollar a year. The notice urges readers to subscribe for timely local news and community updates delivered every week.
An old time appeal questions local business support and charity, asking who helped when unemployed, sick, or bereaved. It contrasts home merchants like Sears & Rosbuck and Montgomery Ward with Chicago firms, naming Seigle Cooper Co and Marshall Fickl Co. It ends urging readers to patronize home merchants and mentions remedies sold by Rice & Grimland.
An advertisement touts Tyler Texas College with board and lodging from 2.60 to 4.00 per week. It claims rapid placement after courses and offers to refund tuition plus pay railroad fares both ways. The piece offers a 100 cash reward for correcting statements and promotes a 168 page illustrated catalog. Also mentions a cold remedy product Preventies and a drugstore sale.
Morgan Texas reports its first bale of cotton grown on Ward's place by W Grisby, grade middling, priced at 12 1 40 per pound yielding 528 pounds and a bale value of 86 02 with a 22 55 premium. Weather mentions late worm activity and need for dry heat. Miscellaneous ad lines and garbled text follow.
The notice discusses quarterly Confederate pension payments with the first due December 1 and requests copies of the letter for local applicants. It also contains an advertisement for Dr Shop’s Cough Remedy praising its safety and lack of opium or harsh ingredients, sold locally.
A two year old child of Mr and Mrs Charlew Pullidi died after swallowing gasoline at their rural Hillsboro Texas home. The mother was distracted briefly while handling a gasoline bottle and the child drank from it. It is believed the child took a single swallow before the tragedy was noticed. A physician arrived but could not save the boy.
Waco reporters note daily receipts of ninety bales, total in new crop at 270 bales, with official weigher Bryan Allen predicting a market rush and about 500 bales may be delivered to Waco farms next week. The article also covers local business moves and upcoming civic campaign in Hillsboro.
The first bale of cotton for Tredell Texas was brought in today by J Q Adams. The bale has not been sold yet. Adams notes he had to pick over nine acres to obtain this bale and the town plans a premium for him.
A fragmented notice references health and nourishment, urging workers to maintain good health while noting a slow, dangerous period at Ballard’s mine under current circumstances. It hints at poisoning risks and the need for vigilance among personnel.
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