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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1912
Page
12
A brief, unnamed note asserts that the cure cannot permanently cure skin itching. It mentions one box and one application as guaranteed, but provides little verifiable detail or endorsement. The wording reflects a plain spoken, promotional claim rather than medical certainty.
W. T. McPherson, attorney at law, offers loan services with a focus on fast service and inspect and perfect titles. Located at the north side square, upstairs.
An advertisement from Comanche Texas offers stenography services at the First State Bank with contact by phone 317. The notice targets local clients needing shorthand work.
G A Cunningham, agent, invites applicants to secure loans on improved farms with prompt service and favorable terms. See him before applying.
Dr J B Hall now 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 Draughon Business Colleges scholarship is offered with applications at the office. Prospective students are urged to apply early to secure a good bargain.
The See America First movement gains traction in the west with emphasis on southern outreach. Colorado hosts many southern visitors, boosts auto travel via the New Santa Fe trail, and promotes southern tours to bridge winter travel. Colorado lists 33 000 miles of roads, 20 000 passable, 4 500 improved, plus 1 750 000 spent on roads in 1911 and 2 400 000 planned for 1912.
United States gold production from 1901 to 1910 totaled 876 million dollars. Colorado contributed 237.9 million, California 184.1 million, Alaska 144.3 million, Nevada 90.5 million, and South Dakota 64.6 million. Electric power expansion and cyanide processing lower costs, while deep tunnels enable deeper mining. Cripple Creek remains Colorado’s top gold camp. La Plata and San Juan districts show many new producers. Colorado also yields silver and lead. zinc rises in importance.
Colorado hosts seventeen beet sugar factories with a combined investment of 19 250 000 dollars and annual output near 14 000 000 dollars. Farmers receive over 5 000 000 dollars yearly with pre signed contracts and fixed beet prices. Cooperative plans emerge as beets thrive in Colorado soils with irrigation and rotation crops aiding stock fattening and dairy support.
The New York World recalls Pete Browning, famed slugger from Louisville and Cleveland in 1890, who kept an enormous bat collection. He rubbed bats with tobacco juice to improve his batting, influencing players nationwide. After retiring, he used relic bats as house posts, keeping them until his death.
In The Rajah, a Hindu servant recalls English devotion to ball games to four rani princesses. He explains various ways balls are struck, from iron shod sticks to spoons and hammers, all under pujari orders, and notes English women bearing children strong by letting them beat balls from infancy.
A marble portrait by Luigi Orengo depicts an elderly Genoese street vendor who saved a small fortune selling nut strings. The life sized statue honors her frugal, industrious life and stands in Straglieno cemetery, reputedly the world’s largest.
The royal court, with Louis XIV on his knees, listened to the Miserere of Lul ly performed by the royal band. After the hymn, the king asked the Count de Gram mont for his verdict, who replied that it was sweet to the ear but very hard on the knees.
A garbled excerpt from the Chicago Record Herald quotes a passerby noting dogs rush out barking when people pass by dog enclosures. The fragment mentions a man’s remark about a Washington menu and a blanket effort to move on, reflecting stray, unclear thoughts rather than a clear event.
A rhetorical appeal urging Texans to honor and emulate great men who shaped civilization. It argues beauty and achievement lift mankind, praising public virtue and seed ideas that foster progress, prosperity, and opportunity across the state and beyond.
Nice six room house with cistern and city water located four blocks from the square. Contact Mrs. M. A. Wilson for details.
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