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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1913
Page
6
An old-fashioned stock reduction sale advertised at Brin's One-Price Store touts low prices with items described as 2¢ and .10¢ choices. The brief notice emphasizes extensive styles and a bargain atmosphere.
A garbled list mentions infant pumps priced at 65 cents and notes several novelties. The fragment hints at a sale or display item within a retail section but lacks full details or clear entities.
Southern farmers are urged to stop shipping breeding cows to western markets. The piece notes rising cannery prices push cows from Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Georgia and Florida to Texas Oklahoma Kansas and beyond. It advocates breeding up native stock with purebred bulls and better pasture management to restore herd quality.
J. H. Wilder and W. B. Wilder were arrested Saturday on charges of swindling and perjury linked to the J. H. Wilder piano firm bankruptcy. J. H. Wilder posted a $500 bond in a related district court case accusing felony embezzlement. A preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner A. P. McCormick was set for nine this morning.
A patrician challenges Cicero as a plebeian while arguing nobility begins with the self and ends with the self’s destruction. The eloquent Roman counters with a critique of wealth and moral failure, claiming the man who seeks only gold has no heart or god.
An old reliable surgical dressing promises pain relief and healing with Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 sizes, marketed as a preventive measure against infection.
The piece recalls John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie J P Morgan and Washington along with figures like Bismark Pitt and Grant as examples of national optimism. It argues faith in progress underpins religion and markets and notes the danger of being a bear on America.
A quotation from the Philadelphia Ledger contrasts hunger and abundance, noting that for every day of hunger in the United States there is a full week of feast and referencing a man who allegedly “sold America short.”
Hope Lodge No. 481 A F and A M installed officers for the year on June 24. Leading officers included L M Stephenson as W M J D Waring as S W Garrett E Palmer as J W John T Jay as Treasurer W C Bradshaw as Secretary W H Carpenter S D H Kilpatrick J D K L Macon S B H L Ardis J S A W Wilkes as Tyler.
The newspaper lists three marriage licenses issued since the last export. Alma Grissom wed A G Miller, Louisa J Greer wed Joe Trumbell, Wynoma Kinchen wed R N Waddell.
Mrs M E Butter aged 69 of Comanche county received a surprise birthday dinner Wednesday arranged by her children Mesdames W A Nance Ballinger H C Rambo and C W and Lee Butter all longtime residents of the Board church community. The father died about thirty years ago and the family speaks for itself as well known locally.
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