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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1920
Page
2
E P Woodruff, newly elected president of the Comanche Development League, proposes inaugurating services to organize the city with a clean up campaign. The plan touts citizen participation, no heavy financial backing required, and town needs it. Latest reports note the Small well at Sipe Springs is a notable matter.
The Comanche school system faces an acute funding shortfall. The editorial urges property owners to tax render at fair market value to raise revenue, asserting the town must support its schools. It calls on the public to pressure the board of equalization if assessments fall below market value.
The article highlights Comanche as a desirable town with much to improve, urging residents and the board of equalization to focus on sidewalk building and public works. It notes the school board's statements and hints at broader civic plans while reflecting on shifting political attention.
Two building contractors debated the collapse of a Maple avenue block while another on Vies Row remained standing. Both admitted using the same material and the issue drew questions about quality and oversight.
A lighthearted exchange shows a hostess and a guest quibbling about a birthday as May thirty fifth. A London preacher is startled by a rude child throwing chestnuts during a sermon, then deflects with a cheeky reply to keep the crowd awake.
A child taunts a local figure nicknamed the bureau of information, joking about seeking wart cures and pup feeding tips and receiving only a glare as a response. The brief remark captures a playful exchange recorded in Life.
The Baltimore American vignette notes a cook with one major edge over the family she feeds. It hints at bread mastery as her unique advantage while the family jokes about needing bread before she will knead. The humorous contrast underscores kitchen power dynamics.
A speaker traces a personal act on a beach writing their name and date in wet sand. A departing wave erases the mark, prompting thoughts of oblivion versus a lasting record in the hands of the reader who counts the sands. The poem contemplates mortal life and the trace left behind.
Reflections by Joubert John Burroughs Phillips Brooks and La Rochefoucauld offer thoughts on guidance, ideal life, and flattery. The excerpts highlight the value of models over critics, recognizing minority leadership, and the inner drive toward an aspirational life.
A playful exchange shows a wife praising her husband as the prettiest in the United States, while the daughter retorts with a joking line about a cheerful liar and a perpetual motherly reaction. The humor reflects domestic wit and family banter.
In the column a mistress asks Nora about cooking foreign dishes. The new cook replies in playful slang offering French peas, Spanish onions, and Irish potatoes. A wardrobe note mentions a woolen rig and sweater for cool weather.
The exchange suggests a youth visiting late, with a parent humorously noting electrical bills as a consequence. The brief dialogue captures domestic prior remarks and a playful warning about staying out late.
A Turkish lady asserts her husband is troubled by his claim he could have married heiresses, noting another remark that her own marriage might have yielded multiple wealthy matches. The exchange reflects social satire on marriage prospects and rumored wealth.
A rugged exchange notes mosquitoes in the countryside where a boarder complains of bites while a farmer asserts he is untroubled. The dialogue reflects local sentiment and rural hardship as described in the Boston Transcript.
Wesley H. Keener presents a weekly column urging avoidance of profanity. He cites Exodus and Leviticus verses to condemn swearing and cursing, warns of divine punishment, and calls on readers to repent and seek God’s pardon and help to stop using vulgar language.
A witty exchange centers on a man who delights in causing blushes as people seek his rouge. The dialogue hints at social play and flirtation, with characters noting the humor and acceptance of such cosmetic mischief in public.
A fragment from the Baltimore American shows a man at a station raising his aide to halt a moving train. The dialogue hints at concern for someone possibly injured and the urgency of stopping service.
A humorous Yonkers Statesman blurb notes a wife debated buying a new hat, only to have it sold by the time she returned. Her husband, Egbert, quips she talked herself out of the purchase. The item sold before she could buy it.
Quick service note offers Notary Work and Legal Blanks for sale through Ira Wilson at Neill Abstract Co.
Randall Jennings advertises a seed potato demonstration featuring Triumph and Irish Cobbler varieties at Fugatt Sales Station in Mar tin. The note asks readers to support maintaining Comanche schools by reading the school board article and acting accordingly.
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