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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
4
Dallas colonel warns of declining yields and potential famine within a century. He urges immediate stubble tillage and recommends Sanders Disc plows or Case sulky mouldboard plows. The ad promises easy purchase of these implements.
City officials met last Monday with Mayor Cunningham and City Secretary Palmer and all aldermen present. The sole business was canvassing the bond election results, with the city attorney directed to prepare papers for the Attorney General. The secretary was ordered to tabulate 1913 assessment data to ensure the sinking fund supports issuing $15,000 in bonds.
A devotional verse from the Detroit Free Press urging self improvement and kindness. It calls for gentleness toward others, cheerful perseverance, brave resolve against temptation, helpful action, humility, neighborly care, and calm acceptance of life's end.
A young lawyer in a small town faced a comic dilemma after his office sign read A Swindler. A consulting stranger urged changing to a first name like Alexander or Ambrose, but the lawyer admitted he disliked altering the sign, replying that it looked bad as is, and his first name was Adam.
A Sidney Rebekah Lodge committee drafts resolutions mourning Sister Georgia Payne. They express sympathy to her husband and children, note her cheerful presence and counsel, and request publication in the Comanche Chief Exponent and Texas Oddfellow. The item ends with a brief note that a Dayton Ohio flood factory resumed operation.
Comanche Chapter Order of Eastern Star will install officers for the ensuing year at the Masonic Temple on Saturday May 31 at 8 30 p m. Refreshments and a social hour follow the installation. All members invited.
A local newspaper known as The Chief Exponent serves Comanche and nearby counties with an audience of about 15,000 readers seeking community news and notices.
Fort Worth Record opinion piece appeals for mercy toward fallen women and outcasts. It recalls Christ’s words Let him who is without sin cast the first stone and Go and sin no more, urging preachers teachers editors and jurists to follow his example rather than harsh punishment.
The article explains moisture conservation by mulching and surface disruption. A deep even mulch of loose soil reduces evaporation, with deeper mulch needed in dry soils. Maintain a level, regularly stirred surface from planting, avoiding shallow or split cultivation to protect deep root growth and moisture supply.
Lee Butler rents the front of the Jay building on the East side of the square and plans to open within days a first class stock of staple and fancy groceries.
Dear sir, this ad promotes pa post drug delivery from a county store. Order before o'clock a m to receive medicines by first mail the same morning. Service targets rural customers with doorstep delivery and pledge to supply items not carried by their own druggist at a charge. Wishing you a bumper crop.
J M Houser and his son Lloyd attended a county Tomato Club meeting with Stella Davis Mary Ba and Rosa Davis members of Girls Tomato Club The group reported Stella Davis read a paper on Tomato Raising which ranked second The trip was described as pleasant and profitable by the reporter from Sipe Springs.
Death notices list Mrs. A J Walker age 52 near Beattie and Baby Lawson age seven months near Sipe Springs in the past week. The brief item notes deaths and locations with minimal detail.
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