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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1940
Page
2
Fragmentary report notes C W Wilkerson serving as solicitor and publisher at Comanche and references a Post Office matter tied to an 1875 date. Details are incomplete but indicate official duties connected to local postal administration.
Advertisement indicates a subscription price of 1.00 per year for Comanche and adjoining counties with a higher rate elsewhere. The snippet mentions 31 56 as unclear figures or page references.
Revised figures place about 35000 soldiers and officers at Camp Brownwood with arrivals due around December 4. Visitors can view the progress at Campenwood, about six miles from town, and on Sunday thousands will watch the construction. The Lions Club reports a Negro football game in Comanche on Friday night November 8 for the Band Mothers Fund, while farmers discuss crops and weather and city planners push for Highway 16 right of way.
Comanche beat Hamilton 18 14 after trailing three times as star players Thompson Easterling and Coker powered the Indians offense. Whizzer Milton starred with a 40 yard punt return TD and the defense anchored by Edwards and Davis helped keep Comanche undefeated in District 12 A with Dublin and Weatherford. Predictions had Comanche over Eastland and Hamilton over De Leon. Drake star Todd Switzer scored Drake’s lone TD in a 20 6 loss at Kansas. Clarence Huett visited Waco on Tuesday.
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