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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1914
Page
2
Monday showing of When the Heart Calls features four top players W Shag Hobart Enley Ruth Donnelly and Violet Messerend. The film promises heart string tugging drama with a focus on friendship love and sympathy as social restraints vanish.
Ford Sterling delivers a sharp visual gag claiming a dramatic mistake will pull your laugh string if you don’t look away. The routine pivots on audience reaction and timing as he jests with public misperception.
Irene Wallace is held by a white slave dealer in a photograph noted for its heart in terest story and modern life relevance. Victor With Irene Wallace and Walter Miller star in a picture full of action and sustaining incidents, urged for audience attention.
Detective Dan Cupid and a mystery within a mystery unfold in Nestor's comedy serial. No. 4 promises rising excitement as readers look for clues and laughs. A playful case twists through quirky characters and cheeky dialogue.
Wednesday screen tale follows William Clifford and Marie Walcamp in a dramatic adventure. A girl is captured by drunken natives and carried into the mountains, then saved by a wireless signal in a spectacular, education‑minded story set in their native haunts.
Four top figures from the Imp company take action in a significant move shaping the firm's direction and strategy.
A thrilling screen adaptation of Eugene Manlove Rhodes novel serialized in the Saturday Evening Post arrives at the Majestic soon. Watch for the announced date as theatergoers await the event.
A railroad presidents committee led by Frank Trumbull briefed President Wilson on wartime strains harming railroads while public service private ownership collide with government rates and lack of guaranteed receipts. The piece notes farmers and merchants suffer from port closures. railroads cannot easily shield their interests. University Station later covers the Texas journalism school setup and its emphasis on country papers along with Garfield anecdote. It also mentions tick dipping guidance from the Department of Agriculture and free Farmers' Bulletins.
An old ad touts Herbine as a medicine that cures biliousness malaria and constipation. The first dose claims immediate improvement and additional doses complete the cure. Price 50 cents. Sold by Paris Smith.
C W Carnes, a Comanche farmer, describes kidney trouble with back pain and low energy. He reports using Dean's Kidney Pills and achieving great benefit after trying other remedies. Price 50 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, props.
The police jury appropriated 6200 for tick eradication in January 1914. Cattle-dipping vats began in February and early April saw active dipping. Federal state and county authorities with individual cattle owners cooperated, bringing Tensas parish into the white area by September 1. The campaigns inspired other counties to consider similar plans for the coming year.
A reader weighs whether to paint a horse barn and fences now or wait until tomorrow as hay and oats rise in price. The note suggests delaying painting raises later costs and property loss, with a nudge to H. H. Hardin Lumber Co. to sell.
All Texas higher education colleges resume this month with opening dates set for September. North Texas Normal in Denton begins September 14 while West Texas Normal in Canyon City starts September 8. A&M College in College Station opens September 22 and University of Texas in Austin September 23. Optimism runs high across campuses as attendance is expected to rise and Texas educators project expanded campus missions. Registrar Finley of A&M predicts enrollment will exceed 1000, and last year the institutions educated over 5000 students.
Mrs M J Gallagher of Geneva New York suffered a year of acute indigestion and constipation. After trying many remedies she used Chamberlain's Tablets and found quick relief. Two bottles enabled her to eat heartily without discomfort. Sold by all dealers.
Director B. Youngblood of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at A M College says Sudan grass seed dealers should guarantee that no black blood will develop in the next harvest. Youngblood, through the Texas Experiment Association, helped start Sudan grass.
In Texas a speaker states that Creamhull type is an ideal but impossible to obtain absolutely pure seed. He notes seed imported from Africa carried a certain amount of black blood and that several years of work with the gross are needed before growers can be sure their seed are pure.
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a cough remedy that soothes the throat and relieves hoarseness and hacking without opiates. It claims quick healing, appeals to children for taste, and notes a Texas man walked fifteen miles to buy a bottle. Sold by the Wm. Reese Co.
Sheriff Jack Cunningham will sell on October first 1914 at the Comanche County Courthouse door in Comanche Texas four acres from Duncan No 1 described as a 297.7 varas wide parcel with specified boundaries to satisfy a $278.30 judgment in favor of W C Jackson against J D Eubanks L S Rutherford and W M Trammell. Deputy J E Miller assists.
Texas issues a summons directed to the Sheriff to publish notification for C Cadenhead J P Baird and R P Dunn. The publication runs weekly for four weeks in a local or district newspaper before the October 19 1914 district court term in Comanche County to answer a petition filed January 17 1914 in suit number pending.
In Comanche District Court docket 3292 David T. Evans sues Mary S Evans J C Evans and J P Baird to collect three notes of Aug 3 1910 for $133 331 3 each with 10 percent interest and 10 percent attorney fees secured by a vendor lien on Lots 1 2 3 Block 3 Scott's Lake View Mineral Wells Texas. Notes long past due. defendants seek to avoid payment though properties pledged and transfers allege inferior claims. Plaintiff seeks judgment foreclosing lien and sale to satisfy debt.
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