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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
5
A visitor notes China’s prevailing sense of accountability in daily life. A dispute over gambling led to a fatal stabbing in a secluded room at 2 am. The ward headman and family slept through the incident, and officials rebuked him for not anticipating trouble. He was sprawled on the ground while lictors administered a bamboo-rod lesson.
Detroit News describes a wedding rite where three generations dance together and the groom is carried by friends. Married men chase the groom in a lively scramble, then the bride crowns a successor after blindfolding and a song predicting marriage for the chosen woman.
A fish in St Thomas Island streams uses enlarged pectoral fins with bony spines to crawl and cling to submerged logs. The tail, thin and arterial, supplies oxygen and allows the creature to stay out of water longer by keeping it wet.
Mrs Burton and Mrs Templeton discuss forming opinions at first sight. Templeton asserts initial judgments are usually correct, while Marjorie asks what her mother thought of her when first seen, highlighting curious social norms in a Kansas City Star column.
A West End street scene shows a small boy chased by a larger one. The pursuer, stronger, is checked by a bystander who quips the older boy may become a judge or political boss someday. Boston Lost.
Waco Texas Jan 21 Texas Rangers the sheriff and constables pursue clues in a double homicide found east of town along Springfield Road near Mexia. Victims are W E Holt 41 and Mrs Ethel Deneramp 21. Holt slain at one spot and Mrs Denecamp at another with multiple gunshot and blunt force injuries.
Men and women can earn about one dollar per hour selling hosiery with four pairs guaranteed and near four months of new hosiery free. A 30 percent commission is offered with free samples to agents. Complete line includes wool and heather blends. Also advertised is Herbine herbal medicine for biliousness indigestion and constipation priced at 60 cents sold locally.
New York reports raw cotton crossing 28 cents amid tight supply and strong demand. Analysts foresee further gains as the new crop is months away and European credit conditions could lift prices further, while war would only briefly affect demand for war needs.
To drive out worms that harm a child use White's Cream Vermifuge. It expels worms without injuring the child. Price 35e and sold by Paris Smith.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Martin's Egg Producer with a money back claim and Martin's Roup Remedy from Hamilton Drug Co. It also notes a public notice that no wood may be sold or hauled from Greene Pasture four miles west of Sidney and mentions Jess Atwood at A. C. Motor Co for auto supplies and car overhauls.
A local ad invites customers to walk a block to Slider and Lacy, the big store with the little price, for onion sets and seed potatoes.
An advert promotes Liquid Borozone for cleansing and dressing wounds. It claims fast healing and lists prices of 60e and 1.20 dollars, with Paris Smith as the seller.
An old advertisement lists modern conveniences at The Commercial Hotel with reasonable rates and a contact phone number 242. The brief note suggests affordable lodging options in the period.
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