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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1939
Page
2
The Comanche Chief notes Comanche Texas post office status with second class matter pricing and plans for a new Hamilton post office building funded by Congress. It highlights a push for a downtown market place, highway 36 progress, school leadership changes, and civic ambitions.
A Beeville Be-Picayune report recounts a smooth confidence man who sold a burned match stick for ten dollars and empty boxes for six, fleecing about eighty dollars from local men. He advertised nothing but truth and left town after a brisk street performance witnessed by a gathered crowd.
Buck Taylor leads the Committee of 240000 in South Texas to push $30 monthly pensions for all over 65 with retroactive effect to the original amendment date. The proposal could yield a $720 lump sum for those who have not yet received pensions. Also notes social quirks and a rural humor vignette about chewing tobacco and a razor encounter.
Fort Worth January 16 four male archetypes are unpopular at Texas Christian University per a campus survey. The coeds reject the Big Shots windbags Sheiks and Sissies who display vanity talk too much and fail to be the he man type. Additional traits liked or disliked include nuisance behaviors such as twisting arms and hiding purses.
A fragment lists misguide pranks and problematic behavior including bad dancers and jealous boys. The note mentions men unwanted by others and youths perplexed by the situation, indicating social friction and misperceptions.
A whimsical tale describes Gossip Town on Falsehood Bay with and Dame Rumor as its bustling figure. The journey warns through Tempting lanes to Tel tale Park ruled by Madame Suspicious Remark and Slander Row, ending with caution about envy and danger in an exaggerated moral allegory.
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