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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1930
Page
8
A fragmented notice page summarizes opinions of Texas editors on taxes, asset concerns, and state policy. Items include local sale ads, lost items, rental notices, and small business offers. Names and places such as Eagle Lake and local merchants appear among scattered classified notices and market items.
A Rewatta staged at Bent vc Wish to turn out a colorful college crew race the climax of Hide-Out a romantic Universal trina which will come to the Avalon Theatre next Toastay and Wednesday Thousands witnessed by a great Seattle HUSSpaper Four crews of the University of Washington rowed in the boat race Murray and Kathryn Craw featured in the picture directed by Reginald
Voters are urged to vote for the Democratic nominee in the upcoming Primary. The Democratic Executive Committee asks abstention from improper conduct and signs the notice dated with promises from G E G Herder Sr. and committee members. Also notes Houston visit by Mr and Mrs Russell Atkinson and family and Gladys Ruth Harrison trip home for a week’s visit. A quip about men of cheek and brains closes the fragment.
The 1930s Texas game rules set hunting seasons for doves ducks geese and other game. Mourning dove opens Sept 4 in the north zone and runs through October with south zone in October to November. Bear season November 16 to December 31. Prairie chickens in both zones September with statewide closure in 1931 for Wheeler and Collingsworth. Black-tail deer hunted west of Pecos November 16 to 30 and east of Pecos November 16 to December 31. Many counties listed closed to 1934.
News from August 18 1906 reports the death of Adolph Sanchez in Cleacabanta due to a band saw breakage and a falling pulley while he worked beneath the shaft at a Lakeside sugar mill. He had held a responsible post there for four years, working at the saw mill during the summer.
Mys. AL Connor says Adlerika relieves stomach gas in ten minutes and acts on upper and lower bowels removing old waste. Beckman's Drug Stores advertises the remedy while Miss Cyril Reiss returns home from New Orleans after visiting Mr. G P C Boppin's family in the city.
The article notes Norma Shearer’s role in Let Us Be Gay where she is presented as a dowdy housewife without cosmetics, with unkempt hair in kid curlers and pinch nose spectacles, highlighting the effort to appear unattractive on opening scenes. The piece mentions MGM and September 4th theatre release details.
Washington reports Texas will gain three seats in the House due to a population increase of 914,141, raising Texas to 21 of the 435 seats. The shifts in the apportionment add to the total representation beyond earlier expectations.
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