Comanche Hints at Local WPA Projects and Civic Notes
Local notes discuss dollar use in Comanche highlighting a municipal hospital and WPA projects needing bonds by October 1. Claudia Fisher seen as efficient in the County Clerk's office amid oil activity. Community fixtures include Perry Hicks backing Comanche Indians for district football, former locals in bands, and Carnes Brothers opening a new De Leon store. Church thought and local editorial quotes pepper the column.
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Claudia Fisher
Miss Fisher
Comanche County Reports Glow Of Political Youth And Local Crime
The piece notes youth in state politics with W Lee O Daniel and Jerry Sadler in key posts, cites election defeats in Mills and Comanche Counties, and recalls cattle theft with truck use. It quotes local wisdom on life, farming, and the rising youth Lindley Beckworth as youngest congressman. It mentions Maude Vineyard and other local figures like Gov. O Daniel, Attorney General nominee Mann, and Rail Road Commissioner Sadler.
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W. Lee O'Daniel
Man
Sadier
Virgil Cash
Jack Dingus
Gerald C. Mann
Jerry Sadler
C. V. Terrell
Bascom Giles
W. Lee O’'Daniel
Jimmie Allred
Dan Moody
Gerald Mann
W. Lee O’daniel
O’daniel
Wm. H. McDowall
Pension Plan Urged For Elderly To Boost Business
W Lee O Daniel, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, says he hopes to deliver the $30 pension to everyone over 65 early in 1939. He advises the elderly not to save but to spend the money to stimulate business and ease unemployment.
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Canton
House
Ways and Means Committee
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas farmers face high tool costs as freight gaps widen
Granbury corn ships at 1.9 cents per pound yielding about 15 dollars per acre to farmers. Two plows move from Moline to Houston on same platform yet different freight rates reflect higher local costs. Odis Weldon, 23, wins Van Zandt County representation campaigning on foot with a corn-fed slogan.
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Granbury
Moline
Illinois
Houston
Texas
Odis Weldon
van Zandt County
Quip on an old car and school texts stirs regional talk
A Waco Times Herald note cites a French tiny car that runs sixty and costs 660 dollars while lamenting free public texts and school uniforms as state burdens. It references Texas candidates and outcomes from July primaries and runoffs, plus light humor from Rockdale and Brady papers and a reflection on Europe and American ambition.
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France
East
Texas
Message on freedom equality and a jailed mother’s child
A 22 year old Oklahoma mother seeks a home for her infant son born in prison while she served a forgery sentence. The piece notes the long road from penitentiary to respectability and reflects on equality and opportunity in America. It includes a humorous tale of a Greer County turkey farmer teaching his flock to roost, remarking on the broader theme of folly and enterprise.
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Oklahoma
Abraham Lincoln
White House
News Digest
Greer County
Okla
College Station
A. & M. College
W. H. Carpenter
Langston
Mary Haynes Fields
J. D. Brami
Sul Rossers College
Alpine
Ruby Hilley
Odessa
James Wilkerson
Universe of
Texas
Maurice Hoffman
Charles Hoffman
University la School
Gordon Barrett
Garner
Park County
W. C. Rowland
Fort Wort
Monnig Drygood Company
H. Rowland
M Rowland
Billy Lou Cameron
Fort Worth
Lloyd Isham
William Cauley
W. C. Caules
Bob Haynes
Iredell
Tebop
Mary Hay Fields
Pink Pettit
Frank Hoington
Penrosy Metcalfe
Grace Brighman
Aust
O. Brightman
First Airmail Carried on May Fifteenth Nineteen Eighteen
The report notes the historic first airmail flight occurred on May 15 1918 marking a milestone in aviation mail service. It highlights the pioneering effort by early pilots and the postal service's role in expanding air transportation.
Local residents farewells and hospital updates in area
Personal notices recount numerous medical treatments and hospital stays across Brownwood, Dublin, Blanket, and surrounding towns. Entries note appendectomies, tonsil removals, and foot operations, plus visits and family gatherings from Mullin to Coleman County and beyond.
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R. Evans
Dublin
Oran Clark
Brownwood
Howard Huett
Dallas
W. H. Huett
John Guill
Blanket
A. J. Gray
Comanche
D. R. Hill
Santa Anna
E R. Armstrong
Homer Thompson
Brown Rambo
Gustine
Glen Rose
I. M. Vineyard
John Carpenter
Sweet Water
Texas
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McAdoo
California
Mose
WPA
Perry Hicks
Hicks
Dublin Lions
Pat Howard
Graham Smoot
de Leon
Webb Jenkins
Plainview
University of Texas
M. Coleman
Carnes Brothers
Carnes Boys
Menard News
Mills
Comanche Counties
George W. Rollins
R. A. Luker
Luker
Tolbert Patterson
Patterson
Frank Howington
Senator Davis
Prescott and Metcalfe
Blackwell
Gorman
Comanche County
Y— Maude Vineyard
Maude
Lindley Beckworth
Gilmer
Morgan
Ailene
Ailean
Miss Bettis
West Ward
The
Waco Times-Herald
North
North Pole
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James V. Alfred
Burma
India
Mary Haynes Pields
P. A. Pettit
Rockdale
Europe
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