Frontier Texas School Life from the 1850s
The memoir recalls schooling in an 1850s Texas town with no public schools. A boy learns reading before attending makeshift classrooms in houses, using split log benches, a dogwood switch, goose quill pens, and rudimentary slates. He memorizes the multiplication table in a high-stakes challenge and describes writing desks, ink, and early grammar and arithmetic lessons.
Rex Studio For Your Photographs
A brief notice advertising The Rex Studio offering photo services. The short item mentions photography and studio availability with a hint of location in a historical newspaper context. While fragmentary, it conveys a commerce related caption for readers seeking portrait or pictured services.
Evaporated milk for camp and child feeding
An article promotes evaporated milk as a safer camp staple to prevent illness from infected foods. It explains evaporation, sterilization, and ease of transport, and provides recipes and pediatric guidelines for using evaporated milk for infants and toddlers during travel and summer trips.
Campaign for higher class farm products urged now
The speaker argues for community action to expand variety and quality of local farm products. Farmers and business leaders should organize within ninety days to pledge acreage, build markets, and push intelligent cultivation. Examples show peaches grapes berries and potatoes as proof of potential gains from sandy land.
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Mr Short
le Leon
Charley Cuthbertsom
Charley Cuthbertson
Mr. Short
New Union Station A Landmark In Railroading History
The Chicago Union Station stands as a monumental and efficient terminal shaping the city’s plan. It features a vast waiting room, luxury conveniences, a 125 person conference room, and space to handle 50 000 passengers daily with 800 trains. Built with 17 000 tons of steel and large limestone, it serves Pennsylvania Railroad and multiple Chicago lines.
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Chicago Union
United States
Chicago
Rome
Union Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
Chicago, Burington & Quincy R. R
Chicago & Alton R. R
Drought Hits Athens Comanche Line Through Texas Cotton Belt
Crop condition report notes rains improving Southeast Missouri Arkansas and Louisiana while Athens to Comanche Texas shows very poor corn and cotton, with August expected to bring deterioration. Rice in Arkansas progresses. soybeans planted broadly in the rice belt.
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Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Athens
Arkansas River Valley
Red River Valley
Shreveport
Ft. Worth
Mt. Pleasant
Tyler
Jacksonville
Lufkin
Comanche
Lepartmnehn F Agriculiture
United States
Oklahoma
Stuttgart
Orwell
RAGS Wanted at the Comanche Chief Office
The Comanche Chief seeks clean cotton rags at its office. No old stockings or trousers accepted.
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L. B. Russell
Texas School of the 50
Frontier Schools
Goliad
Helena
Mitchell
Smith
Ray
Rex Studio
Andstone
Seedaens
Comanche County
Mer
Wright
Beattie
Athens-Comanche
Line Drouth
LP. T. Cole
St. Louis
Crosley
Texaco
Star Service Station
J. C. Gaddy, Propr
Brownwood Highway