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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1915
Page
2
Letters from the Texas border report the falling sickness surge among Mexicans and claim the brush is full of dead. Joe Bailey hints at a 1918 senate bid against Morris Shepherd, inviting a joint debate. Fort Worth quarrels over a child and Texans discuss river navigation and hydroelectric plans for West Texas.
Comanche plans regulate car speeds with a likely 50 mph limit on the square and higher on other streets. An opposition note claims not to oppress drivers. Rumors persist that Germany will stockpile U S cotton after the war, urging farmers to warehouse and hold their cotton for future profit.
The government forecast of about eleven million bales for next year sent cotton prices sharply higher. War needs keep demand strong and world consumption outpace supply, signaling a bullish outlook for producers. Comanche public schools plan to open September 13. The district touts its strong system and college readiness via high school.
Bailey argues women are too good for rough politics and cannot purify politics without being harmed. He uses water and ink as metaphors to claim mixing good with bad spoils both, urging political exclusion of women from American politics.
A warehouse inspector explains that the gin sampling rule aims to regulate farmers by testing cotton samples at the gin. To obtain a good sample, farmers must deliver clean, dry bales and avoid wet or damaged cotton.
Two years after a navy order for 100000 pajama suits enforcible for enlisted men the department now offers 70000 pajama sets for sale to the highest bidder. The tale mocks Josephus Daniels and the navy as it frames the dispute as a revolt led by Jack Tar and his night shirt victory over the department.
Cameron Herald notes the Trinity Brazos and Colorado may someday be made navigable for boats. It argues the effort is costly, impractical, and slower than rail, suggesting a government built free freight road instead.
The editorial advocates using up to thirty million dollars of federal reserves to back cotton finance at low interest, if Britain treats cotton as contraband. It argues railroads lumber and shipping deserve aid too and criticizes subsidy hostility as unpatriotic in a global economy.
George Warren Brown of Brown Shoe Co predicts 1915 will bring liberal gains for American merchants and manufacturers in the last four months, driven by crops and a favorable trade balance. Brown cites strong August shipments, full leather supply, and growing bank reserves as foundations for renewed business activity and employment.
A public school teacher in Shelbina received a note printed by the Torchlight urging corporal punishment of a pupil named Sammy. The letter, signed as from a guardian, says to beat him whenever necessary to "learn his lesson" and to ignore the father’s pleas, stating the guardian will handle him.
The exchange jokes about a bruise Mrs Stahl sustained when trying to exit a car. It notes a bruise on a woman's anatomy is seldom serious but hints consequences if questioned about her injury, reflecting local newspaper humor style.
Debate on child labor in Southern factories sparked by exchanges in Life magazine. Northerner questions why attention to Southern children shifts focus from Northern child labor practices.
A brief quip captures a customer praising a clerk as cream good and the clerk replying it ought to be since it was whipped. The line reflects light humor in a everyday storefront scene.
A wounded soldier complains to his nurse that a comrade who used his bullet gave it to his girlfriend. He argues the bullet should be his and laments the moral fuss over the arm wound. The Kansas City Star quotes the anecdote.
A humorous exchange about marriage expectations appears in Tit-Bits. A father questions supporting his daughter’s chosen style, while the suitor retorts with a bread and milk analogy. The dialogue illustrates social norms and generational differences in domestic life.
Advertises 73 acres two and a half miles north of Comanche on public road with 60 acres in cultivation. Seeks good mules and horses as first payment. Contact A. M. Love place at Higginbotham's for details.
In a Galveston flood shelter the sixth floor of the Santa Fe building bore a baby during a raging storm. The infant died after a brief struggle as 6000 people faced uncertainty. a physician cared for the mother who may not survive. Geo. K. Butcher recalls the moment amid chaos.
Comanche buyers report instant relief from constipation after using Adler-i-ka a simple buckthorn bark glycerine mix. The remedy claims to cleanse both upper and lower bowels and ease gas and sour stomach with effects within one minute says M. W. Carroll druggist.
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