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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1913
Page
2
Advertisement line notes postal handling at the Comanche Texas post office as second class mail matter with Tom H. Bell listed as editor and business manager.
D. H. Cunningham serves as president with J. R. Eanes as vice president. T. J. Cunning ham is secretary and treasurer, and Tom H. Bell is editor and manager.
Directors include D. H. Cunningham T. J. Cunningham Tom H. Bell J. R. Eanes Paris Smith E. W. Harris and Thodberg. Stockholders named Oscar Callaway Paris Smith E. W. Harris T. J. Williams V. H. Thodberg L. T. Cunningham K. F. Cunningham G. A. Cunningham.
Readers are asked to notify the paper about missed deliveries and to provide both old and new addresses when reporting a change of location.
A Columbia University study notes thirteen states passed laws this year authorizing convict labor on highways. West Virginia features a state road bureau and mandatory road work for certain defendants. other states include Arkansas Delaware Florida Illinois Indiana Kansas Maine New Jersey North Dakota Pennsylvania Vermont West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Iowa debates prison labor on highways under Board of Control. Warden provides movable quarters, convicts under warden but supervised by the State Highway Commissioner. Earnings shared with dependents. contract labor banned. reformer Crosson denounces the contract system after a national inquiry.
A road bill is supported as likely to do much to drive the contract system from the state, reflecting legislative intent to curb private work arrangements and centralize road construction oversight.
The Texas Industrial Congress plans its annual session next month with Colonel Henry Exall delivering the President’s address. The convention highlights rising participation, crop yields, and the push for bigger farm profits, aided by 150000 crop bulletins and a one day program with a reduced rail rate to attract business men and farmers statewide.
The Comanche Chamber of Commerce plans its annual banquet and officer election as the New Year approaches. Members are urged to discuss Good Roads, lights, walks, and free mail delivery while strengthening the organization for future challenges.
A visiting English observer from the New York Tribune argues that the gap in spending habits between Americans and Britons stems from the change purse. He asserts that coins jostling in an English pocket force restraint, while Americans with readily accessible money spend more readily.
Taylor taxpayers push a $200000 road bond issue to maintain a $500000 highway system and fund future road building. Most citizens favor the measure, with election expected to be called later this year.
London lecture reports a remarkable healing of blindness in Gertrude Yates of Nunhead through hypnotic suggestion. Alexander Erskine of the International Club for Psychical Research says the eye's mechanism is intact and the cure arose from coordinating the conscious and subconscious minds, not surgery.
The poem recounts Jim Bludso, a rough but faithful steamboat fireman, who stays at the helm as the Prairie Belle burns. He sacrifices himself to save others, promising to hold the nozzle against the bank until all ashore, and dies in the blaze. His rugged virtue contrasts with harsher judgments of his life.
The piece notes slit skirts about twelve hundred years old in Japan and cites Carlton’s 1603 description of a British queen’s robes heavy with jewels. It contrasts medieval court finery with modern sermons on ostentation, remarking the masque fashion as an early royal display rather than Broadway flair.
Texas county tax collectors report 1913 assessed valuations rising statewide. Dallas leads with 129,550,350 in property taxation, followed by Harris 129,504,485 Bexar 105,898,862 and Tarrant 97,696,872. Dallas shows the largest year over year increase, up 11,162,550 from 1912.
A group of piscators and nim rods from Freestone County gathered at Teague last week to form a hunting and fishing club. Officers were chosen for the coming year. The club plans a large clubhouse costing several thousand dollars to be built near Street man.
The department urges postmasters to educate patrons on full street numbers room numbers and city state in addresses. It warns that missing hallmarks like street names and corner locations slow deliveries and cause misrouting. Postmasters should advise customers to include complete office building details and consider printed stationery promoting proper addressing.
A fire at Blanket destroyed a residence last Saturday causing about 1200 dollars in damage. The occupant was identified as D. J. i the report notes.
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