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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1954
Page
2
The Comanche Chief is a weekly paper published every Friday since 1873. Editor and publisher J C Wilkerson oversees subscriptions priced at 2.00 per year in Comanche County and nearby routes, 2.00 in Texas, 2.50 out of state, with a minimum of 1.00.
The Comanche Garden Club led a district wide push to plant red bud trees this spring to beautify the region and create a Red Bud Trail. A committee including Mrs. Porter Franks will supply healthy trees for 60 cents each, with orders due by March 10. The article also surveys Texas town names from the Almanac and notes Paradise in Wise County as a former home of Mrs. W. H. Rowland, listing numerous towns with unique names and origins.
The excerpt notes Fort Worth receiving its name from a fort built on the Trinity River area, marking early settlement and military origins that influenced the city’s development.
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