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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1914
Page
2
The Comanche Publishing Company announces its post office classification as second class mail matter with H BELL serving as editor and business manager. The notice confirms publication details for the Comanche Texas newspaper dated September 1 1912.
D H Cunningham is president and J R Eanes is vice president. T J Cunningham serves as secretary and treasurer with Tom H Mell as editor and manager.
D H Cunningham T J Cunningham Tom H Bell J R Eanes Paris Smith E W Harris V H Whodberg appear as directors for the local firm and form the proposed board lineup.
Stockholders named include Tom H. Ningham J R Eanes Oscar Callaway Paris Smith E B Harris J Williams W H Thadberg L T Cunningham K Cunningham and G A Cunningham in the meeting notes.
Subscribers failing to receive their paper regularly and promptly will confer a favor upon this paper by calling our attention to game. In changing your location or address be sure to give old as well as new address.
Announcement urges road improvements and farm expansion including silos, more feed, and increased livestock with hogs, heifers, and hens to boost agricultural productivity.
Comanche county is a stock and poultry country with rich pastures and ample water facilities. The era nears when these industries will gain much attention and development.
Fragmentary note references a property tax rate of one-half a cent per render, suggesting a discussion of assessment or revenue measures. Lacks full context.
Advertises cheaper Comanche county real estate with a call to acquire now, urging readers to invest before prices rise. Promotes road improvements as the path to economic gain and a brighter future.
Community voice calls for coordinated effort as residents acknowledge strengths of Comanche while stressing the need for unity to achieve common goals. Leaders urged collaboration across groups to avoid fragmentation and maximize progress.
The Chief-Exponent asks readers what they are doing to back the paper's forty year push for the town and county. It urges renewed patronage, noting long community work and asking for public involvement.
The Chief Exponent is a forty year old paper in Comanche county with a circulation of 3000. Friends call it the best paper west of Fort Worth and praise its longevity and readership.
All equipment for the new brick plant has arrived and is to be put into operation soon. The plant will provide work for the unemployed and supply affordable building material for local builders.
About 250 carloads of peanuts were damaged by heavy rains in Comanche Eastland and Brown counties during the past fall. The damaged nuts were worth about 1.00 per bushel and many were fed to hogs or left to rot. Growers are urged to run hogs on fields after harvest to fatten on remaining nuts.
If you plant cotton or your landlord requires it, secure the best seed obtainable. Breeding plant life follows the same principle as choosing top animals. Ensure soil is in proper condition before seed reception.
The farmer cleans and burns stalks to destroy insect larvae like weevils. Experts favor planting a winter cover crop and turning it under in spring to restore soil life without depleting nutrients, noting burning harms beneficial organisms.
A garbled note from the Comanche Chief hints at caution in romantic entanglements and wealth chasing. The fragment references shipwrecks on the shoals of marriage and warns against blinding desire for riches.
One Comanche county farmer, E. Drennan of Sidney, raised hogs worth 444 dollars with an actual 25 dollar feed outlay. Fattened on seven acres of rain-damaged peanuts, he proves hogs can pay. Some farmers doubt hog profitability, but the soil here supports peanuts that feed pigs and pork that feeds corn. Plant more peanuts and raise more pigs.
The new year brings hopes of a local oil and gas field near Comanche and county. A strong cotton season and bumper crops are forecast, with Sweetwater possibly linked by a widened Cotton Belt, boosting population and economic prospects as 1914 begins.
The speaker contemplates the unknown voyage after death, hoping to be judged by a life spent serving others rather than pursuing wealth. They value humble work and the belief that kindness made the world brighter, seeking a peaceful rest in the afterlife with loved ones.
The piece argues that extending Cotton Belt West to Sweetwater would boost Comanche by linking with Orient and Santa Fe, El Paso and West, and possibly creating a freight and passenger division point 105 miles from Waco and 125 from Sweetwater. It asserts railways boost towns and real estate temporary slumps aside, strong connections elevate a city’s status.
The passage cites Mr Mayes challenging why Reverend Bosses and their followers did not push for consolidating candidates to a single hill. It blames a few political bosses including Tom Love Drs Rankin Gambrill Walker and others for backing “Little Cullen” Thomas for governor and questions their choice of lanes or avenues in promoting the pro bit.
The letter criticizes an elimination committee for skipping strong pros like Lane and Mayes in favor of Thomas. It argues the move lacks precedent, reason, and legal form and predicts a backlash that could cost the party. It urges nominating a candidate with established Democratic and life-long pro status.
The Dublin Telephone laments subscriber loss over its open saloon stance but remains committed to supporting a state wide prohibitionist in the July primaries. It criticizes a newcomer who left over perceived weak support and notes it will not abandon current candidate pledges for an undecided option.
Dublin Telephone argues the elimination proposal is a political device backed by Home and State owned by Thomas B Love. It claims the drive aims to influence governor races, not local needs, and criticizes Mayes Lane Cullen Thomas and outside groups for exporting prohibition ambitions.
Portable 19th century medical ad promotes DR PORTER S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL as a surgical dressing that relieves pain and speeds healing. Sold as liniment in 25c 50c and 1 00 sizes.
The verses describe Mary wearing a very tight skirt with a high slit up to the knee. The narrator notes no lamb but a pretty calf and suggests she wore the outfit to attract attention, framed as Dame style approval.
M. W. Carroll reports Adler-i-ka, a simple buckthorn bark and gly cerine remedy, is gaining many friends in Comanche. The product is claimed to cure appendicitis historically and cleanse both lower and upper bowels. One dose allegedly relieves constipation and gas immediately.
Dave Cunningham at Chief Ex ponent office handles purchase options for four year-old broke mules available for cash or credit.
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