DeLeon Boy Wins Hog Prize At Industrial Congress
Loyd Lee,14? No, 17, son of Mr and Mrs G L Lee near DeLeon, fed a Poland China pig for 120 days. The hog grew from 86 to 335 pounds, earning $143.05 total after a Fort Worth show prize and stockyard sale, plus the $100 industrial congress prize. The Free Press touts DeLeon hog inducements as a model for others.
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DeLeon
Free Press
Industrial Congress
Loyd Lee
G. L. Lee
Young Lee
Fort Worth
Lloyd
DeLeon Free Press
Ohio Corn Tour Inspires Thrift And Agriculture
Nearly one thousand Ohio youths traveled in four special trains to Washington Philadelphia and New York as a reward for agricultural and domestic science excellence. Expenses were shared by the state and Ohio chambers of commerce and other groups. The event highlighted the value of farming, promoted higher yields, and featured the champion Arnet Rose with 156 bushels and 47 pounds per acre.
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Ohio
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
State of
Commercce
Mount Vernon
Arnet Rose
Ilis
United States
Wcre
Texas
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Promise
A druggist offers PAZO OINTMENT with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles within 6 to 14 days. The first application supposedly provides ease and rest.
Notice to Farmers Advertise Wood Feed Hog Livestock
Farmers are urged to advertise buying or selling wood feed stuff hogs and farm grown items in the Chief-Exponent. The cost is 25 cents and ads in the Chief-Exponent are said to bring results.
Brand Whitlock Keeps Busy Amid War Tides in Europe
Brand Whitlock, once seeking quiet in Belgium, becomes a tireless American diplomat in wartime Europe. He coordinates aid for refugees, ships for the shipless, money and clothes for the destitute, and leads relief for women and children displaced by fighting, remaining active day and night since August.
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Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Ohio
Belgium
Brand
America
United States
Whitjock
Europe
Flanders
Marketing Butter and Cream in The South
The Dairy Division notes surplus farm butter in the South is exchanged for groceries but fetches low prices due to poor quality and packaging. It urges housewives to improve butter quality and packaging, and to canvass hotels, clubs, boarding houses, and private families as markets. Farmers should have cows freshen in fall to even year round supply and consider parcel post for distant buyers.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Edna Lovelace
The Lovelace family expresses deep gratitude to friends for kindness illness and death of Mrs. Edna Lovelace mother wife daughter sister and for floral offerings from Arthur Lovelace and Mr. and Mrs. W W Harvey and family.
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Edna Lovelace
Arthur Lovelace
W. W. Harvey
Edison predicts war ends in two years with US self supply ships
Edison in a New Year interview says the war will last two more years Germany cannot win and the United States will run its own war ships by 15 million dollars in storage batteries the contract expected to be received this year
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Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Germany
United States
Cotton Makes Big Jump to Start Year
The cotton market surged on the first full trading day of the year with strong gains across futures and spot markets. New Orleans and New York rose sharply as investors and export demand drove prices higher, while Houston and Galveston reported notable activity and large receipts. Liverpool also advanced on improved spot demand amid active shipping and German buying.
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New Orleans
New York
Liverpool
Houston
Galveston
Sheriff Sale Notice in Comanche County Texas 1915
Notice of a sheriff sale in Comanche County Texas on the first Tuesday in January 1915 at the courthouse door. Property is 12 acres out of Section 36, with a cotton gin and equipment, tied to L D Ragland and The John E Morrison Co. The sale follows an execution issued November 9 1914 in Young County District Court.
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State of Texas
Comanche
District Court
Young County
John E. Morrison Co
Joseph
Comanche County
Comanche and
Sipe Springs
N. W
Trustees of the Baptist Chua
L.D. Ragland
John Eag
Jack
Paam
Sheriff
J. BE
MillexPilal My
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R. W. Gray
Proctor
Lampe
D. F. Eaton
County Farm
Mr. Gray
Eaton
A. & M. College
Paris Smith
Holland’s Magazine
Masonic
8. R. Evans
Smith’s Drug Store
J. F. McCarty
M. D. Ray
Electric Therapeutic
Tooms
Masonic Temple
Higginbotham
Vaughn’s
Auto Transfer
Ford
Mr. McKinley
Mack
Vaughn
Depot Street
Comanche, Texas
W M. Hilley
Sidney Spa
Xas
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