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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1920
Page
9
The telephone company informs Comanche subscribers that cable work and cross lines are underway and expects to connect all subscribers within thirty days. Those desiring phones should notify at once to be installed during neighborhood wiring.
The Virginia Lumber Company plans a Comanche yard opening soon under P. H. Farmer who will manage local operations. The yard sits on the Neely Cunningham lot west of Todd Randalls Jennings store, joining the firm's existing yards at Gorman and Sipe Springs.
Large crowd anticipated as the famed contralto Schumann-Heink plans a Brownwood concert on May 13. She had cancelled Texas engagements in March due to illness but will perform for music lovers in Comenche.
A vintage advertisement promises immediate hair transformation using Danderine. It claims the tonic softens, adds gloss, removes dust and oil, freshens the scalp, reduces dandruff and hair loss, and promotes longer thicker hair with simple application.
Ex members of the Frontier Battalion of Texas Rangers and frontier service veterans are summoned to gather August 10, 1920 at 2 PM in Weatherford District Court to organize a yearly reunion. WM. Green ex member declares the call.
Artist Enid Howard Chandler Christy marks twenty second year since study of American women began. He asserts American women remain the fairest on earth and will rise in loveliness, noting beauty as an art and a sign of progress ahead of foreign ladies. He adds beauty could influence political balance depending on viewpoint.
Postage stamp collecting thrives as new issues appear after the Austria Hungary collapse. Caecho Slovakia leads with pretty stamps, Jugo Slavia and Hungary plan multiple issues, Esthonia Livonia Ukrainia, and Poland each offer new varieties, expanding the hobby nationwide.
The piece notes half of the French army killed or wounded in World War I and praises France for its sacrifice. It also touts peasants discovering a stomach and intestinal cure, Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, imported by Geo H Mayr, claimed to relieve catarrhal mucus and inflammation, with a money back guarantee after one dose.
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