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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1929
Page
7
A Penn county well four miles southwest of Luling in Guadalupe county blew in Monday morning. Estimates place output at 6 000 to 15 000 barrels daily from the Taylor farm. The spill has broken out of the ground in four places and is filling nearby ravines with oil while crews attempt to control the well.
A collage of quick wits and pratfalls features students, teachers, and townsfolk. Jokes range from clumsy promises at a second hand store to a barbering mix up and a banker’s odd sales pitch. The piece preserves a humorous street voice with many named bits.
A near century old church record from Nyed Sweden lists bizarre service edits and dreamlike episodes. It describes altered commandments, comic Parisian imagery, and a revivalist’s antics with a barefoot crowd, a curious angel, and a wary fisherman among the congregation.
Weimar mourns after the sudden death of A P Bhutto, Southern Pacific agent for Weimar for three years. He woke with chest pain Sunday night and died shortly after a physician arrived. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning for a prominent local resident.
report describes a death during a family event on a birthday with multiple relatives noted as present. Mr Bam Davidson and Ms J B Davidson along with Miss Miller traveled to Houston to be with Davison who remains ill in the city.
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