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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
10
The Comanche Public Company, publishers, are listed as entered at the Comanche Texas post office as second class main matter. Tom H. Bell is identified as editor and business manager.
D H Cunningham serves as president J R Banes as vice president T J Cunningham is secretary and treasurer Tom H Bell is editor and manager with the group.
Directors listed include D. H. Cunningham T. J. Cunningham Tom H. Bell J. R. Eanes Paris Smith E. W. Harris and V. H. Thodberg.
A list of stockholders includes Tom H. Ningham J R Eanes Oscar Callaway Paris Smith FE W Harris T J Williams W H Thadberg L T Cunningham K F Cunningham G A Cunningham. The document records ownership among multiple individuals in a local firm.
Readers are asked to notify the paper if deliveries are not received on time and to provide both old and new addresses when changing locations.
An event notice invites readers to gather on October 21 and October 29 22 for a campaign against boll weevils on the Comanche Rush Creek road, signaling coordinated agricultural action.
A Comanche County resident urges prioritizing road improvements to boost commerce and daily life, arguing that quality highways are essential for growth, safety, and long term prosperity.
The Atchison Globe reports Lou Keene has located his bull, ending a missing animal episode. The paper notes relief at the recovery and hints a prior loss had puzzled the community, while prompting curiosity about whether a similar recovery might involve a goat.
The Chief Exponent acknowledges receipt of a waters fob described as a season pass to the Greatest State Fair in the world.
Citizens urge a legal ruling to allow continued illumination as a court injunction is cited in the call to let light shine, arguing street lighting benefits public safety and morale.
The speaker notes continued rain will yield plenty of turnips and turnip greens, with hog jowl cracklin bread and pot lick er to get by. They express a staying calm attitude and no worry about hardships.
The Chief-Exponent declares itself a newspaper focused on current events without bias, contrasting with magazines or histories that cover distant or historical topics. It emphasizes reporting news for the community, county, state, and nation, aiming to present all news fit to print.
The article invites readers to mail corrections to the office for a chance at a year's subscription. It notes misspellings are intentional to test proofreading and promises the correct sender will win.
An appeal urges five hundred additional silos by next fall to bolster stock farming in Comanche County. Advocates claim silos will end cotton dependence, improve livelihoods, educate children, empower women, and provide cash for meals. Evidence notes include Claude Meadows selling silo age for six dollars per ton and a firm profiting from silage as payment. The piece contrasts northern states with better stock and homes, urging more hogs and hens and less cotton.
A reflective meditation on death and departure, invoking a German poem about going away. The narrator muses on destiny, the inevitability of dying, and the desire to exit life with dignity, likening passing to a natural, joyous birth into the night and dawn.
A promotional blurb urges readers to consult ads for buying guidance. It claims advertisements reveal where to buy when to buy and what to buy, offering true economy and ensuring maximum value for spending.
The Honey Grove Signal notes Jim Lowry as a strong, conservatively minded candidate for congressman at large. The writer recalls supporting Lowry for seven years, praising his character and fit for service, while noting past hesitation to involve supporters financially.
The Chief Exponent ran a correction challenge offering a year’s subscription to the first person who corrected a misspelled word in an advertisement. G. W. Gleaton won for correcting the word Kuppenheimer transposed in the Neely Harris Cunningham ad. The aim was to test readership and engagement.
Disparaging note on the decline of sensationalist editing in newspapers. References to six shooters and mint juleps symbolize past rugged rhetoric. Cites Meridian Miss and Fort Worth Record as sources noting the shift from vivid, exaggerated reporting to calmer modern styles.
A business excerpt urges that bricks are made by effort and advertising. It cites Plutarch on wetted clay and argues merchants must actively advertise to convert potential prosperity into reality.
W. Godbold of Dallas, son in law of Mrs. T. O. Moore, has leased M. V. Fleming's 300 acre ranch south of town. He plans to move to Comanche and raise stock and poultry, build silos, and grow Jersey cattle hogs and poultry. The paper wishes him an abundant success.
Rev. Robert Nelson Spencer argues that roads shape civilization, aid farmers and animals, and bind communities. He urges practical, straight roads as a humane duty guiding towns toward shared strength and safer, kinder travel.
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