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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1912
Page
6
A meditation on poetry as an ocean of sense prompts anecdotes from Tennyson to Jerrold and Barot. Browning figures, with Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle, amid questions of meaning and understanding in literary reception.
An excerpt discusses snakes as useful for controlling lesser reptiles in tropical habitats, aiding ecosystem balance as predators and prey for small mammals and birds. It also surveys thoughts on dreaming, memory, and how sleep affects thinking, citing Sir Arthur Mitchell and Chera on dream conditions and the impact of wine and flesh.
A Boston tramp keeps a regular begging network and returns to a house after a neighbor scolds him for debt. The owner claims he paid in advance and jokes that the assessor is not due, while the tramp feigns businesslike delay to settle the ledger with his head bookkeeper.
An English scientist measured a small ant dragging a dead grasshopper and found the grasshopper weighed sixty times more than the ant. The ant’s pulling force was equated to a man weighing 150 pounds pulling 4.5 tons or a 1,200 pound horse hauling 36 tons.
A Yonkers joke about a popular uprising in a street car scene. It contrasts a polite offer of a seat with a humorous exaggeration of collective sentiment. The remark amplifies social manners into a playful political quip.
A fragmented OCR exchange puzzlingly questions why a girl is drawn to a man described as pigeon toed. The garbled lines hint at social curiosity and miscommunication, leaving readers with a cryptic, almost literary snippet.
An readings-style list praises kindness and restraint in conduct including judging, speaking, honoring principles, and helping others. It ends with a medical pitch for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for whooping cough and cough relief, claiming safety and epidemic success.
Ed Boswell advertises baled oats at his farm two miles south of town for 40 cents per bale. A Spanish theater disaster in Castellon on May 27 killed eighty people when a moving picture machine exploded.
A man seeking a rich wife encounters a woman who credibly uses Electric Bitters. The ad extols the product as giving strong nerves a bright brain and even temper, peach bloom complexion, ruby lips, restful sleep, and elastic step due to pure blood and health. It claims relief from indigestion backache headache fainting and dizzy spells. A 50-cent bottle is sold at druggists.
Texas Comanche County sheriff sale under a May 10 1912 order to satisfy a 762 30 judgment in the case J J Jones versus W B Sikes and G H Flowers. The property is a subdivision of a ten acre tract near Teel and Cook boundaries, foreclosed against all defendants. Sale set for the first Tuesday in June 1912 before the Comanche courthouse.
The list records properties in Comanche County delinquent on March 31 1912 for 1911 taxes under section 10 chapter 103 laws 1897. It names parcels owners and amounts due as mandated by law.
G A Cunningham Tax Collector of Comanche County certifies lands and town lots delinquent for 1911 taxes. He notes entitlement to credit as shown. Sworn before J C Lacy Clerk on April 2 1912.
A call to try egg drinks at Hamilton Drug Company is paired with a lost open face gold watch near Indian Gap on the road between Newburg and Indian Gap. The finder should return it to John Burton in Comanche Texas Route 5 for a reward. Also notice cheap sacks for sale and a reminder to visit the sanitary soda fountain at Hamilton Drug Co.
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