Comanche Area Notes On Honors and Local Affairs
UT freshman Billie Black of Comanche earns honor roll status in the top two percent. Parker County hosts Peach Blossom Pilgrimage. Dogwood Trail fame noted. CCC Camp Brownwood to close as defense work winds down. Comanche area building activity slows. 50 houses built in 1941. WWI leader Woodrow Wilson cited on wartime training. Peach Blossom Pilgrimage discontinued for tire conservation during the duration.
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Parker County
East
Texas
Weatherford
Mission Times devotes 52 pages to Moore Field opening
A wide edition celebration notes Mission business support, local births, politics, war coverage, and community notices. Items include a birth in Weatherford on a Texas and Pacific train, wartime sentiment, peanut crop prospects, sales tax poll, a car for sale, army service moves, a beer election in Gallahan County, dormitory fires at Clifton College, a Brownwood school bond approval, and several local jokes and quotes from area papers.
Revival misfires in wartime hero talk
The writer argues revivals fail to lift morale and notes General Douglas MacArthur as a standout American hero of World War I era, contrasting with Pershing as a remembered figure and listing past war heroes from the Spanish American War era.
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Douglas MacArthur
Hobson
Dewey
Schley
Teddy Roosevelt
Pershing
Churches call off revivals amid war news and public sentiment
The papers report churches cancel summer revivals due to the war. In Brownwood Frank Moore and Jack Stephens bought a five year old thoroughbred buggy horse and a rubber tired buggy. They may take the horse to the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and could sell for a $500 payment. Italy’s war impact is described with large German influence as Russians fight back.
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Frank Moore
Jack Stephens
Brownwood
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Comanche
Billie Black
University of Texas
Tillie Black
Bill
Comanche High School
Waco Times- Herald
CCC
State Park
O— Woodrow Wilson
The
Mission Times
Moore Field
Uncle Sam
Cecil Cash
Little Rock
Arkansas
Texas and Pacific
Fort Worth
el Paso
United States Army
Hitler
Russia
Comanche County
Menard News
Matthew
Beaumont
State Observer
Draft Board
C. B. Williams, Jr
Gary Palmer
San Francisco
Navy
Young Williams
San Marcos
Gallahan County
Clifton College
Lutheran Church
Yassah
Josie
the Chaser
Austin Pioneer
Rein
Hiccinson Ham Bros.& Co
Ial
Trudy Hall
Italy
Germany
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Nature
Ruth Mayfield
Higginbothams Furniture Dept
Porto
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