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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
4
A sale starts Saturday July 22 at 8 o clock and runs eight days. The callout Clean Up will be the war cry as summer goods are offered regardless of cost. Bidders are invited to indicate desired items and prices are to be set.
Copperas Prairie and Gap report hot dry conditions with corn thriving in rain near Comaneh. Local yields include K P. Jones with the largest wheat per acre and R W. Fielder at 2012 bushels. Town folks attend Sipe Springs picnic. several residents, kin, and visitors are noted alongside family obituaries and a lasting account of Mrs. Nannie Burnett’s descendants.
A humorous advertising blurb touts beauty through digestion and endorses Chamberlain's Tablets as beneficial for faulty digestion with availability “everywhere.”
Vera Cruz, Mexico dated June 29 1916 recounts a voyage from Santo Domingo to Key West then to Progreso Porto Mexico and Vera Cruz. The letter notes the USS Nebraska anchored with 875 refugees and mentions quiet conditions at present with uncertainty ahead.
Graham Chapel featured Mr. R. R. Evans of Proctor in a Sunday afternoon singing. Mrs. Dingle of Proctor visited the community, and Mrs. Mattie Clemons of Dublin is visiting her son Mills Clemons. Misses Alta Gilpin and Zeffie Ewing visited Mrs. George Purvis Saturday night.
NENSLER YAM is the only sure late sweet potato. Will make plant ed till middle of July. Slips now only $1.00 per thousand. Coman che Ranch, Comanche, Texas. A BARGAIN We can make your old mattress good as new for $1.50. Atwood Bros
Mr and Mrs R L Carlton of Gatesville visit this week. Mr and Mrs T A Wells of Mc Gregor stay with Prof and Mrs Len Dalton. Miss Mary Clayton visited her brother in Comanche. Thieves broke into the barber and blacksmith shops last Saturday night. Len Dalton travels to Dallas county on business. Miss Lillie Stevens visits her sister in Gatesville.
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