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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
5
Personal mentions list residents and visitors across Comanche, Hamilton, Dallas, Fort Worth, and nearby towns. Updates include illnesses and recoveries, travel for shopping and business, family visits, and moves. includes Masonic lodge attendance and school-related travel. Notable names include O H Gibbs, Faye Allen, Hardy Slider, Val Preston, Sam Forehand, J P Hoff, and W E Cauley among many others.
G M Hutchinson and family thank friends for acts of kindness during the long illness of Mrs G S Hutchins. They especially commend nurses Mrs R L Talley and Mrs R C Smith and the attending physician for devoted care. They also praise telephone operators and all others who offered support.
Miss Frances Nash wed Bruton Orand at First Baptist Church in Waco in a colonial styled ceremony attended by about seven hundred guests. Rev. J. M. Dawson officiated as Baylor musician Robert Markham played. couple leaves for Chicago then residence at 2612 Sanger Ave. The bride, social figure in Waco, studied at Sweet Briar and toured Europe.
The wedding involves a Bruton descendant of Comanche and Georgia Bruton locally known. Adelle Neely, daughter of Eugene Neely with ties to Comanche, appears as a flower girl. Mrs. Karl Tate hosts Merry Matrons with cross stitched prize pictures and refreshments. Day Emory entertains Progressive club with Valentine motif, high score honors to Mrs. Joe McFarland.
A Saturday sale offers used Singer sewing machines at discounted prices. Local outlet invites bargain shoppers to explore models, parts, and accessories available for a limited time.
A tale from Japan explains how a public official’s two daughters cross to visit a friend and return with fire in a paper lantern and wind in a paper fan. A wise woman guides them after their father’s binding request, and the gifts lead to the lantern and fan becoming used items.
The article discusses how voices differentiate people for the blind, noting that no two voices are absolute doubles and that voices reveal character and physical condition. It cites a reader's quote about a woman with five distinct voices and observes how mood affects vocal tone.
A fat plumber jokes about how women react to bird names. He notes a woman may smile at being called a duck but objects to being called a hen while admitting a hen is the most useful bird. The carpent er adds that this fuels the odd exchange.
BEN F. HEARN, Pastor, invites all local residents and nonmembers to join Central Christian Church for services and to consider the claims of the Lord. The message urges faithful attendance, altar of service commitment, and cooperation with other churches for community good.
The Davis family thanks friends for kindness during the illness and death of Mrs. R. O. Davis. Also notices a local ad for garden seeds and cabbage plants at Slider and Lacy's and a health ad for Herbine liver regulator sold by Paris Smith.
An advertisement from Wm. Reese Drug Company touts Janke's Roupe Remedy as a cure for roup cholera and white diarrhoea in 200 fowls with a no cure no pay offer.
An advertisement touts a Guaranteed Blue Star Remedy for skin diseases including eczema and sores with a stain free claim and pleasant odor. It also notes Reese Drug Company selling sewing onion sets and seed potatoes at Slider and Lacy's.
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