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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1926
Page
2
A school curriculum argument emphasizes history to reveal truth and correct error, urging character and knowledge from past lessons. The piece cites a college president on training minds for responsibility and cites President Coolidge urging more spiritual development and culture over merely material progress.
A prose fragment discusses road design as more than straight lines and utility. It argues builders must weave routes to honor landscape beauty rather than dominate it, warning against reducing roads to mere infrastructure. The author cites an engineer’s duty to balance function with aesthetics in shaping places.
Wanted to buy some mules. F E Turnbow will be in Comanche until Thursday January 7 at Grissom's Yard.
Mr and Mrs Rollins winners of the Fitter Families Contest at the Dallas Fair tied to Comanche and Gustine roots. Mr Rollins, now Bexar County agent, and his wife, with family ties to Will Hawkins and Mrs Farrar, are pictured at the victory event courtesy of the San Antonio Light.
New York observers mark Wilson’s would be sixty ninth birthday as a national event with dinners and testimonials. The 17 cent Wilson memorial stamp goes on sale in New York Washington Princeton and Staunton. Amherst hosts an exhibit of Wilson records and letters.
The Waco Times Herald ponders whether Texans will pursue irrigation marketing and crop diversification or stay in old routines. It cites questions on forest growth, cotton marketing, milling, and political responsibility as prompts to reflect. Miss Marion Hall and Miss Evelyn from Farwell visit Comanche friends, with Frances, and A. G. Hall and A. G., In., visiting during the week.
A Baltimore Sun caption shows a visitor in Chicago pointing to a bronze statue and asking who the gang leader was. The image prompts curiosity about the figure and its historical context.
The Boston Transcript remarks on the notion of Smiths and their advertising page. It notes a bellboy calling Mr Robert Smith of Smith Super Six company and comments that Smith has strong faith in the advertising page.
Mr and Mrs Allen F Smith and family Mrs E M Bear and family Mrs Jeff Parker and baby and Parker Tupin all of Dallas spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Tupin returning to Dallas Monday. Mesdames Smith Bear and Parker are daughters of Mr and Mrs Tupin. Also present were Mr and Mrs Arthur Bear Mrs Bear and family near Comanche and Elma Bear of Dallas visiting his mother.
The Commission for Indian Affairs disallowed bills from an airplane company and a taxi company for transporting two Osage wards from Kansas City to the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. The youths, sent for medical treatment, rode by rail there under a custodian. four days later one flew and the other rode in a taxi. The air fare was 150 dollars and the taxi 114 dollars, with a loan and extra riding time noted.
Plymouth Virginia December 29 reports indicate Col John C Coolidge father of the president has improved though doctors say full use of his lower limbs is unlikely. Col Coolidge had been unable to walk for several days.
Mrs. Martha Creamer born July 24 1852 in Georgia died December 21 1925 at Plainview Texas. She married J C Creamer in 1886 and came to Texas settling in Comanche County about fifty years ago. Four children were born to the union two survive Mrs J Honeycutt Plainview and L H Creamer Alpine. She leaves three brothers one sister and many friends. A longtime Freewill Baptist who helped her husband in preaching she remained faithful in faith and now rests at Indian Creek cemetery near Comanche. Funeral services led by Rev M Boiles Carlton.
Mr and Mrs Jesse Purves of C iham Texas Mr and Mrs Carl Johnson and Mr and Mrs Roy John were Christmas visitors in the Jo Johnson home in the Cottons community.
C. I. Preston and family visited this week. Mrs. Preston is the sister of Mrs. Dr. Lane of this place and also of T. E. Hood of route 1. They moved to Comanche in 1915 but have since returned for free visits here.
A notice states buyers seek to purchase mules in Comanche at Grissom's F. E. Turnbow through Thursday January 7. The ad invites owners to present animals for sale during the stated period.
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