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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1912
Page
6
W. T. McPherson, attorney at law, offers to secure honest loans at reasonable rates with quick service. He also inspects and perfects title to lands and solicits business. Office is on the north side square, upstairs.
Money to loan on improved farms at reasonable rates with prompt service. See G. A. Cunningham, Agent, before you make application.
Located over the Postoffice in the new Davenport building just back of the Masonic Temple on Depot Street all kinds of dental work solicited.
A notice advertises a scholarship in Draugh on Business Colleges. Apply at the office, and applicants are urged to come early.
In Boston Massachusetts, a strike by textile workers unfolds as union members mobilize for wage and conditions protests. Officials report pickets around mills as negotiations stall and workers prepare for further action.
Oscar A Anderson of 2401 South Walker Street fell from a scaffold in Oklahoma City. He was sprained and bruised but able to move about. He credits Hunt's Lightning Qi for relief. The note of a Confederacy motion at San Antonio to secede from the Union was reported as voted down.
A broad invitation appears for a large picnic at Van Dyke on Friday preceding the fourth Sunday in June. Attendees will bring well filled baskets for a plentiful dinner on the ground with music arranged and a pleasant day expected for all, especially candidates.
R. H. Moore advertises peas seeds for sale. Contact details not provided in the fragment.
A humorous tale claims a rich wife found when a man meets a woman who uses Electric Bitters. Her bright brain, restful sleep, and rosy complexion allegedly reflect the tonic’s health benefits. It touts relief from indigestion backache headache fainting and dizziness. 50c at all druggists.
The state and county announce a sheriff sale under a 1912 district court order in the case J. J. Jones versus W. B. Sikes and G. H. Flowers. The land described lies within Comanche city, part of a ten acre tract, foreclosed to satisfy a $762.30 judgment for J. J. Johnson, with W. B. Sikes and G. H. Flowers as defendants. The sale is set for the first Tuesday in June 1912 at the Comanche courthouse.
G A Cunningham, Tax Collector of Comanche County, certifies that lands and town lots on the 1911 tax rolls are delinquent for 1911 taxes only. Sworn April 3, 1912, before J C Lacy, County Clerk, with deputy B C Stailey.
Advertisment fragment offers a lost watch reward near Indian Gap between Newburg and Indian Gap, with return to John Burton in Comanche Texas. Mentions Hamilton Drug Co and grain company, plus drink at a soda fountain.
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