Fatal shooting in Menard ends county attorney’s life
In Menard a killing occurred when City Marshal Frank Hamby and County Attorney Fred R. King clashed over a gambling dispute. Hamby shot King in a saloon front doorway, King dying within minutes. Hamby surrendered to jail awaiting an examining trial. King, about 30s, married to Pearl Lemons, had served as county attorney.
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Menard
Fred R. King
Frank Hamby
Hamby
King
Legal Tender
Spiller
Marshall Hamby
Pearl Lemons
Brady Standard
Cotton Exports Resuming With Galveston Shipload
A full shipload of 5382 bales cleared from Galveston on September 1 bound for Barcelona, Spain as exports revive. Wheat shipments in late August reached nearly 10 million bushels, a record pace except for one week, signaling stronger trade. The seas are open to commerce with German naval restrictions noted. European mills operate with female and child labor amid currency measures and wartime finance shifts under the Vreeland act.
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Galveston
Barcelona
Spain
Atlantic
Gulf
Vreeland
National Bank
Free Trip Offered For Life Insurance Sales Drive
The Great Republic Life and Cherokee Life offer a free trip to the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco for agencies selling Life Insurance. The condition is the first year premium on the first $10,000 of 20-Pay Life must be remitted with the applications. Contact S C Pandolfo, G A, San Antonio, Texas.
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Great Republic Life Insurance Company
Los Angeles
California
Cherokee Life Insurance Company
Rome
Georgia
San Francisco
S. C. Pandolfo
General Agt
San Antonio
Texas
Southern cotton finance eyed with new currency proposal
The South could issue about 200 million in temporary currency backed by cotton warehouse receipts, considered as good as gold while outstanding. A federal reserve system and rediscount facilities are expected later to aid cotton finance. Mills in neutral countries plan to stock up. Japan reportedly seeks 2,000,000 extra bales, though proof is weak.
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South
Federal Reserve System
Japan
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement and Bankruptcy Notice
A Comanche citizen touts Doan's Kidney Pills for back and kidney troubles, urging readers to seek the same remedy. The document also covers a bankruptcy petition by A A Smart and L J Kennedy of Smart & Kennedy, asking for full debt discharge, with a court order setting opposition deadlines and conditions.
House Refuses Henry Plan as Cotton Aid Debate Stalls
In Congress the Dove resolution failed to endorse the Henry bill to issue 2 billion dollars in currency for farmer loans tied to cotton value. Amendment by Tarver split the measure, ending with a 55 to 34 vote against endorsement and the resolution’s passage without the Henry provision. Also contains an October 1914 sheriff sale notice in Comanche County for 4 acres of land in Duncan No 1, description and property details, levied to satisfy a $278.30 judgment in W C Jackson versus J D Eubanks et al.
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House
Congress
Tarver
McAdoo
State of Texas
Comanche
District Court
Bosque County
W. C. Jackson
W. M. Trammell
L. S. Rutherford
J. D. Eubanks
Comanche County
Towit
Duncan No. 1
Texas
E. FE. Anthony
W. G. Baxter
N. E
T. C. Baxter
A. D
Jack Cunningham
J. E. Miller
Adler-i-ka Remedy Promoted by Comanche Agents
Comanche agents trumpet Adler-i-ka the simple laxative remedy from buck thorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. The note claims the preparation cures appendicitis and relieves sour stomach gas and constipation in one dose. Drugstore official M. W. Carroll cites the remedy as beneficial for the system.
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M. W. Carroll
Citation in Comanche County suit No 3292 1914
Public notice summons C C Cadenhead J P Baird and R P Dunn to appear at the October 1914 district court in Comanche County to answer a petition filed January 17 1914 in a suit by David T Evans and others over promissory notes secured by land in Mineral Wells Texas. The notes owed by Mary Evans and J C Evans and assigned to A F Blue and then W R Clements are long past due with 10 percent attorney fees.
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State of Texas
Comanche County
C. C. Cadenhead
J. P. Baird
R. P. Dunn
52Nd Judicial District
Comanche
A. D
David T. Evans
Mary 5. Evans
J. C. Evans
B. S. Jackson
C. C. Cadenhad
Mary
Texas
Mineral Wells
Palo Pinto County
Scott
Lake View
A. F. Blue
W.R. Clements
Clements
Mary S. Evans
Gussie Stimson
E.S. Jackson
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1915
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WM. Clifford
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South Main St
Doan
District Court of the United States
Smart & Kennedy
A. A. Smart
L. J. Kennedy
Acts of Congress
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Fort Worth
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Comanche County Abstract Co
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J. R. Eanes
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Transfer Auto Barn
Depot Street
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8. R. Evans
Smith
S. Evans
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