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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1913
Page
4
To business and professional men of Comanche the Comanche Pub. Co. offers lithographed and embossed stationery at 10 to 20 percent savings. They guarantee quality and prices and promise a liberal commission for orders from an independent house not in any combine. Give a trial order and be convinced.
Texas advertisement invites entry to the Draughon course of study with a pay as you learn plan at 10 dollars per month for any course and 7.50 for night sessions. Day students may attend night school for 2.50 more. scholarships cover night school. Courses include bookkeeping banking penmanship shorthand typing court reporting and business writing.
Obituary notes the December 31 death of Daith of Elizabeth S. Gaines aged 72 the Baggett community resident since 1886 and sister in law of two sisters. burial January 3 at Graham Chapel. Additional items report Texas cotton prospects Alaska? and various local civic and business notices from Jones, Collin, and surrounding counties.
Den ton plans a county organization. Pecos votes 35000 for sewer system bonds January 2 set. Williamson county reports 700 plus automobiles, one per sixty people. Brownwood to host second annual free fair October 9 1913. Brooke s county courthouse project costs 80000 by San Antonio firm. Frisco demonstration farm 6 contracts let near San Benito. Kalamazoo Tank and Silo Co formed at Fort Worth to build a plant near stock yards, operation in sixty days. over 181900 bales of cotton marketed.
The record states 69,915 non white Texas farmers with 69,816 Black, 52 Indian, 4 Japanese, and 6 Chinese. Native white farmers number 318,988, totaling 417,770 people of all colors and nativity in the state.
Reliable cough remedy recommended for coughs and colds. Pleasant to take and dependable. Sold by all dealers. Comanche Pub Co promotes up to date printing services with high quality papers and type.
Tom Cunningham of the Co manche Chief has been appointed court stenographer of this district and will make Stephenville his home. He will make good and the Telephone is glad the appointment went to him. The Goddess of Fortune smiles on a newspaper man. The Chief Exponent loses a valuable man.
We have installed a fine pair of wagon scales and will do public weighing. Let us do yours. Adv Commercial Grain and Co.
An old newspaper ad advertises cheap blank books at Carroll’s drug store including ledgers journals and day books for adult customers.
The ad says three cars of Missouri corn have been bought and will arrive in twenty to thirty days. It notes the corn is fine and may be the only Missouri corn this season. Customers are urged to come early, place orders at the Farmers Union warehouse, with weighing free and staff available to assist.
Advertisement from S. J. Miles at Singer Office Comanche advertising parts and repairs for any make of sewing machines including needles bands shuttles carriers and all machine parts.
Advertisement notes callers to reach Commercial Grain & Co for feed inquiries. It states payment of all phone calls and includes a contact number 18.
Federal Census Department report shows Texas adds 2,135 acres of virgin soil daily and 344000 dollars in farm property value each day. The state ranks first with 317770 farms, up 65580 since ten years past. Improved land totals 27360666 acres, up 7784590 from 1900, a 39.8 percent rise.
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