Webb Boyles Family and Others Visit
Mr and Mrs Webb Boyles and daughter Frances of Coleman visited sister in law Mrs Sam Lewis last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Pat Johnson announce the birth of a daughter Frances Lavetta. Miss Lavel Echols of DeLeon visits sister Mrs Pat Johnson. Mr and Mrs Ele Roberson of Robersonville visit Walter Lane and family Sunday.
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Webb Boyles
Frances
Coleman
Sam Lewis
Pat Johnson
Frances Lavetta
Lavel Echols
DeLeon
Ele Roberson
Robersonville
Walter Lane
Thedford's Black-Draught Laxative Offers Low-Cost Relief
A London era advertisement promotes Thedford's Black-Draught laxative as inexpensive relief for constipation. It claims a 25 cent package yields 25 doses, made from laxative plants, and priced at a cent or less per dose. The note also mentions Miss Martha Camille Smith of Dublin visiting Mr. and Mrs. J R. Tatum this week.
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Thedford
Martha Camille Smith
Dublin
J R. Tatum
Austin Welcomes Fergusons First Entry 1915
Veteran writer Gordon K. Shearer recalls James E Ferguson and Miriam Ferguson arriving in Austin on January 19 1915 for the governor’s inaugural period. The piece recounts their early life in Bell County Temple and Belton and outlines Ferguson’s farm tenant platform and rise to power.
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Tell
Austin of Fergusons
Austin
Verdun
Germany
Paul Wapless
Fergusons
Miriam A. Ferguson
Belton
Belton College
Blackstone
Kent
Temple
Ferguson
Tom Hall
Houston
Fort Worth
Jim
New York Notes From A Street Corner Column
A New York writer recalls city sights in a breezy column. Observations include subway readers, a Greek pushcart vendor on Fifth Avenue, a rescued banter with a policeman, 4000 idle architects aided by a relief drive, a steamship president’s elevated desk, wood burning revival in a department store, pyrolectric art, street organ music on Lexington Avenue, a portable organ vendor with gum on top, and a remark that there is a death by own action every six years.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Big Sister
Lexington Avenue
R U Ready to Dye Shoes at Collins' Shop
A small shoe shop at Collins' Shoe, opposite the Fire Station in Comanche Texas advertises shoes in any color at 50 cents. Furniture and goods are listed with casual, incomplete details.
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R. U
Collins
Comanche
Texas
Pastor is Founded After Waco Conference Pastor Returns
Rev. J. L. Evans was reappointed pastor of the Comanche Methodist Church after the Central Texas Conference meeting in Waco. Church members greeted him and his wife with a pounding at the parsonage Tuesday evening, followed by a social hour.
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J. L. Evans
Central
Sid White Buried In Gustine Community
Sid White 57 a prominent Gustine farmer and First State Bank director died suddenly at his home near Gustine Saturday noon after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 30 p m in the Gustine Baptist Church with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. He had lived in the Gustine area over forty years and was survived by his wife Mattie and daughter Mrs Pete Watson as well as his mother and several brothers and sisters.
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Margaret McFadden
P. W. McFadden
Austin
Herbert H. Williams
Comanche
John C. Ross
Dorothy Nell Ross
Mary Louise Sparks
Miss McFadden
Ross
Margart McFadden
Margaret
Herbert
Aving
Miss Ross
Miss Sparks
University of Texas
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
State Supreme Court
Ball
Ferguson
Bail
E. O. Heitzen
Farmer Jim
W. P. Hobby
Texas
Sid White
Gustine
First State Bank of
White
Gustine Baptist Church
Rev. Haley
Oklahoma
Minist
Church of Christ
Evergreen Cemetery
Mr. White
Comanche County
Mattie Bently
Tie’ White
Pete Watson
Sweetwater
M. E. White
B. F. White
J. E. White
Trs
E. A. Welch
Guy ‘Te
Roe White
Gus
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Hoff
Comanche Milling Co
Howard Kilpatrick
Mercer Creek
Joer’s Service
Joe Tupin
Prop
Texas Furniture
Brownwood
H. Williams
Williams
Beta Theta Pi
Babson School
Boston
Alrge
Frances Sternenberg
Editha Williams
Agnes Smith
Mary McFadden
Yoakum
Patsy Allen
Maurice Chek
George Robinson
Ed Morgan
Plum
Clint Brown
San Antonio
Ruth Reed
Mary Ann McClendon
Elizabeth McClendon
Frances Avery
Marian Avery
Helen Avery
Ethel Bickler
Dorothy Thompson
Violetta Vandevanter
Ann Ross
Zula Matthews
Ollie Knight
Claire Caswell
Mary Helen Caswel
Laura Eleanor Marks
Margaret Ratter
Josephine Turner
Pauline Goldmann
Sam Sparks
Edgar Perry
Frank Lloyd
Bill Swearengen
Lockhart
John C .Ross
J. N. Hinyard
Denman Moody
Lawrence Hagg
Amarillo
Frances Tarlton Mayes
Verger Hill
Smithville
T. J. Williams
Gordon K. Shearer
United Press
James E. Ferguson
Bell County
State Capitol
Driskill
Ouida
George Nalle
Sammy
Dorrace
Stuart Watt
F@guson
Robespierre
Carsh.getz
New Yorker
Lower Broadway
Steamship Company
Ike
Lyric Theatre
Brownwood, Texas
Bettis & Gibbs
Brownwoo
Leo Shankles
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