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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1914
Page
8
The shop invites all shoppers to view Spring Displays as it claims advantages over typical offerings. Prices are reasonable given metropolitan shapes and quality materials. Special emphasis is placed on hats for Misses and Children this season.
Spring fashion headline highlights skirts as the season's must have. Shops boast top styles, quality, and a wide range of fabrics with peg tops, tunics, side effects, and the latest designs for shoppers.
Local notes report dentistry, business trips, and visits across Comanche and nearby towns. Highlights include Dr O R Houghton, Pat pay a Dr A J Gray, exchanges about Masonic building in Comanche, and trips by George C Wetzel, Miss Estelle Reese, Chas Showers, Lizzie Rogers, J B Chilton, and others. Notices mention mules for sale, typhoid fever, lamp burners, and cotton seed, with social visits to Dallas and Fort Worth and Grand Opera attendance.
Advertising notes Singer and Columbia as reliable brands for 50 years and urges visiting the Singer office on the north side square. The rest mentions Dr W W Fowler visiting Comanche for eye ear nose and throat work and glasses fitting.
Cy Tunnell editor of the De Leon Free Press visited Brownwood area, former Brownwood/Bulleting editor, praised as a good newspaper man. Also notes second hand cultivators for sale, a fishing trip near Brownwood, E J Welch resigns for Mart yard office, Pesnall family moving to Prescott, auto trips, theater opening in Brownwood, burglar case against Wallace Masters, and Sutphin moves paper address to McKinney.
After this date I will charge 5c per trip for hauling within fen blocks of the square and 25c for over four blocks. Due to high feed and living costs this is necessary. I will treat you fairly and handle your business promptly. If in need of hauling phone me at 337 or 4.
Norman Hancock a traveling salesman for Curlee Clothing Co. is named as another victim of the Missouri Athletic Club fire in St. Louis. He was well known among local merchants salesmen and salesladies who mourn his death.
A traveler notes during a Saturday auto trip to Brownwood that farmers have soil broken and in good condition for planting. With some moisture, a bumper crop this fall seems likely.
An advertisement from the International Magazine Co. of New York invites a liberal commission and salary to look after business in the reader’s community. The notice promises interesting dignified healthful work and appeals to those seeking steady work with independent earnings.
The county auditing committee, led by Mack Moore of this city, includes Dave Jennings of Proctor and Tony Patterson of DeLeon. They are this week going over and auditing the books of various county officials.
Seed corn priced at 2.00 per bushel and cotton seed at 1.00 per bushel. Seeds tested locally with successful results. Hand shelled corn and cotton seed saved before bad weather. Wyandotte eggs 1.25 per 15. Duroc Jersey hogs also for sale by R. T. Jones in Sidney Texas.
Oscar Stewart offers the Charlie Denny horse and a jack for the season at the old Fair Grounds one mile northeast of the courthouse. Terms are 10 dollars to insure the foal. The notice invites interested parties to contact for arrangements.
The advertisement claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is harmless pleasant to take and effective for children. It promotes wide sale through all dealers as a trusted mothers' favorite.
An advertisement promotes Herbine as a remedy for indigestion. It claims quick pain relief within minutes and passage of fermented matter through the bowels. Price 50 cents. Sold by Paris Smith.
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