Texas Towns React As TP&L Retires From San Saba Area
The Texas Power & Light Company retired from San Saba and 15 nearby counties after months of local votes for municipal light plants supplied by the LCRA. The change, noted amid quotes praising TP&L and mentioning local figures, blends war talk, public opinion, and community notices with regional updates on aging, education, and local personalities.
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Texas Power & Light Company
San Saba
LCRA
Signs of Business Progress in Comanche
The Waco Times Herald notes no vacant business space on the square in Comanche but reports plenty of office space available upstairs in several buildings indicating ongoing commercial activity.
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The
Waco Times-Herald
Comanche
Untimely marriages spark regret and family entanglements
The passage notes how rapid marriages lead to regret and rocky unions. It observes that many couples seek fortune tellers before lawyers, and even officials face nepotism challenges in securing government positions for relatives.
Juiced mishap and brisk crime mix in brief notes
A Los Angeles woman named Joan Viehle got her tongue stuck in a beer can opening and needed metal removal. In Bowling Green Kentucky two bandits robbed nine persons in a store but spared a farmer with only 75 cents in his pocket. Dr Gerald Maresh of Indianapolis endured an appendectomy when a sharp pain in his right side prompted removal of his own appendix within three hours.
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Joan Viehle
Los Angeles
Bowling Green
Gerald Maresh
Indianapolis
Emigrant Woman Kills Two Rattlesnakes in Kitchen
Mrs. Margaret Vink of Emigrant Montana killed two rattlesnakes in her kitchen by first stunning them with a stick of wood and then severing their heads with an ax. The item appears among humorous clippings and local oddities from the era.
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Margaret Vink
Emigrant, Mont
Fragmented dialogue snippet from a 19th century readers
A garbled excerpt features dialogue about driving at night and family remarks. Phrases like Henry and darling appear with fractured lines about parents in the country and a niece described as good looking. The text reads like clipped conversational fragments without full context.
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Henry
Father
Modern life contrasts romance and divorce in American homes
The article argues about 200000 divorces yearly in the United States as a tragic clash of wedding gaiety and bitter quarrels. It advocates traditional gender roles and urges women to endure, suggesting shopping trips as a coping mechanism and claiming harmony would improve if wives remained silent and husbands roared.
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D. A. Laird
Haskell Free Press
United States
Texas
Fragmentary personal tale from Dallas gossip page
Read like a slice of domestic chatter centered on a wife and grandmother. The speaker laments marital strain, aging relatives, and cycles of chores from weed pulling to beauty shops while the husband’s patience and the wife’s duties create tension.
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Dallas
Card of Thanks from the Masters family
To our dear friends and relatives who gave the shower for our blind husband we thank you for your kindness and support Your thoughtful acts made the long tiresome days shorter and give us comfort May God bless each of you a thousand times Go Masters Mrs Geo Master and Little Sister Lessie
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Masters
Geo. Master
Lessie
Funeral thanks for Frances Lee’s illness and death
Edwin Lee Emma Mooner Mr and Mrs O Lee and family express heartfelt gratitude for the kindness shown during Frances Lee’s illness and death. They thank the flowers nurses doctors at the German hospital the undertaker and Reverend Smoothe for the funeral address. God bless all who prayed.
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Frances Lee
Frances
Smoothe
Edwin Lee
Emma Mooner
Mr O. Lee
Russell Family Visiting Amid Illness in Comanche
L. B. Russell's Sons, L. B. Russell Jr. of Saw and Fred Russell of Hous, are visiting L. B. Russell in Comanche where Mr. Russell has been ill for several days.
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L. B. Russell, Jr
Saw
Fred Russell
Hous
Comanche
L. B. Russell
Mr. Russell
Bargains in Butter Paper Sheets Sale Ad
A short advertisement lists butter paper sheets priced at $1.75 per bundle. The copy emphasizes bargain pricing and printed details.
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Coche Chief
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