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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
4
Classified notices offer brand new and used pianos with payment terms, eggs and baby chicks for Rhode Island Reds, chicken feed savings from Comanche Milling, lost wardrobe trunk, Ford trailer, Acme binder, a cancer cure claim, and potato slips ready for market all under Comanche Texas listings.
Seed Nice for yellow Crowder Black Eyed peas and stock peas this week, also cotton seed for planting, maize, sorghum, sudan, darso. Fresh line of groceries at all times. Your trade appreciated. E. H. Jones. Want to hear from owner of good farm or ranch for sale. Strayed a bay mare mule and black horse mule with harness marks. Reward. Ford car in A 1 condition and a good Victrola. Ford Truck in good shape to trade. Miss Ida Mae Switzer visits before summer school in Denton and Texas City. Ruby Grainger returns from Brady after teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Witt of Coleman visit Comanche friends. Don’t buy a cat in the bag. Need working together to build a good town or community.
A local notice describes furniture bought sold and repaired at Atwood's Furniture Repair Shop on the east side square. The brief item highlights services offered and the shop's central city location.
The piece notes family records often kept in old Bibles between the Testaments, including births and marriages, and suggests modern alternatives like a fireproof lockbox for keeping vital documents. It reflects on the loss of such pages through tearing or erasure and urges preserving family history with secure storage.
Two Austrian inventors plan a British factory for motor car use of a new water clear glass that resists splintering. Motor magazine notes the material is inflammable, retains clarity, resists scratches, and can bend under stress without fracturing. A sample dropped twenty feet bounced part way back.
Johns Hopkins psychologist Dr. Knight Dunlap reports that rabbits subjected to daily dizziness by spinning and ear cooling develop adaptation in their vestibular system. After repeated exposure the rabbits show reduced nystagmus and their heads no longer swim, suggesting humans in aviation may similarly acclimate to unusual motion.
In Sicily the Madoniar mountains have long suffered murders robberies and kidnappings by brigands. The new Fascist prefect and police chief surrounded nearby towns with militiamen and carabineers and after four months captured Ferrarello and his 50 associates who had raided the area for 33 years.
Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association denounces cosmetic surgery and beauty industries in a Des Moines talk. He claims America's beauty bill reaches 60 million dollars yearly and ridicules rouge creams and related cosmeceuticals as vanity.
Dr. C. F. Marvin of the Weather Bureau disputes Smithsonian claims that sun ray fluctuations drive weather. He and colleagues see little evidence linking solar radiation intensity changes to future climate prognostications.
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