Comanche News Highlights Local Arts and Texas News
Long column notes Comanche relatives, soldiers and readers to pass books to soldiers, tax deadline looming, and local business moves. Reports on Still counts in January, gas rationing warnings, Camp Bowie rides ban, Durham Remedies in West Texas stores, and state politics with Jesse James as Texas State Treasurer candidate. Comanche fire and water station claims, highway pause, 1846 Texas annexation note, and REA basketball notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse James
Texas
Desperado
Card of Thanks for Baby’s Death and Burial
We express sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for kind words and flowers at the death and burial of our darling baby. Mr and Mrs Louis Craig Mr and Mrs W C Stark and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Craig
W. C. Stark
Comanche County Texas 1900 Cotton Output and Local Notables
The piece notes 1900 cotton yield of 12 000 bales in Comanche County with last year’s 48 000 bales at 7 1/2 cents. It lists county officials, public schools count, teacher salaries, and biographical notes on local bank leaders including J B Herndon Ned Holman and O L Hamilton, plus the First National Bank figures and governance figures. It also mentions Dr A L Hamilton missing a week from business and Dingsmore Sartwelle’s return from South Texas.
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A. L. Hamilton
Dingsmore Sartwelle
Texas
Comanche County
Comanche
W. C. Jackson
John T. Jay
H. A. Carmichael
R. E. Harris
G. M. Phillips
J. W. Neill
D. P. Simmons
Public Schools of
E. M. Pease
J. B. Herndon
First National Bank of
Proctor
Waco
Dublin
Ned Holman
First National Bank
O. L. Hamilton
W. O. Hamilton
W. H. Eddleman
Weatherford Bank
J. W. Cunningham
Former Sheriff Testimony Ties NY Spy Case to Local Official
FBI agent Dwight Brightman, a former Comanche County Sheriff, testifies in New York as Walter Morrisey describes burning evidence for Nazi espionage suspects. Morrisey says he hid scorched papers from consular workers and turned them over to federal agents, aiding the case against six defendants including Paul Borchardt and Helen Mayer.
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Fort Worth
Walter Edward Morrisey
FBI
Morrisey
Dwight Brightman
Paul T. Borchardt
Kurt Frederick Ludwig
Rene Froehrick
Karl Freerick Mueller
Frederick Schlosser
Helen Pauline Mayer
Hans Pagel
What About Old Rip on the March 1 Texas radio program
Boyce House, famed Texas columnist, reveals Old Rip the horned frog’s fate live on I Give You Texas and the Great Southwest. The broadcast airs Sunday at 12 45 PM on KGKO KGNC KTSA and KXYZ, sponsored by Justin Boots. The piece notes WPA completed asphalt paving of Highway 16 between Camp Bowie and San Antonio in San Saba.
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Boyce House
Texas
Old Rip
Eastland Co” Court House
Justin Boots
KGKO
Highway 16
Camp Bowie
San Antonio
San Saba
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Cniel
J. C. Wilkerson
Aegia
W. H. Carpenter
Kilpatrick
Brady High School
Coleman
State Liquor Control Board
Eastland County
East Texas
Cleve Callaway
Cross Plains
Congressional Record
Government Printing Office
Business Man
Boy Scout
W. E. Conway
Mr. Conway
United States
N. N. Durham
Durham Pharmacy
West Texas
Durham
Singapore
Java
Australia
H. R. Knickerbocker
O. O. Brightman
Germany
Anson Jones
Austin
Republic of Texas
U.S.A
Troy Cauley
Hilton Burks
State Highway Department
Burks
Rockdale
Mike Brumbelow
TCU
Navy
Gene Tunney
Robert Quillen
Stephenville
Stephenville High
Weatherford High
Jimmie Marshall
Stephenville High School
Yellowjackets
Jimmie
Pa Jo
John Patterson
Mills County
W. Lee O’daniel
Washington, D. C
A. C. Thomas
REA
Army
Comanche Gymnasium
John Tarleton
Hickinson Ham Bros.& Co
J. Thomas
New York
J. D. Crawford
J. M. Higginbotham
John T. Jaye
W. C. Streety
J. Doss Miller
Florida
Jersey
Higginbothams
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