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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1926
Page
5
The Boston Transcript reflects on sending flowers for the dead and suggests similar acts of kindness during a person’s life are more meaningful. It urges daily opportunities to help others to avoid regret when death comes.
Our new sample books of personal Christmas cards are ready for order. Don’t wait too late to choose your designs. See the prettiest samples this season at the Head Light office and ask to view them now.
Rev. A L Stephens pastor of the Christian church at El Campo will preach at the Christian church here next Wednesday night December 5. He and his father visited Rev. J W King and Mrs Bing in the city. Everyone is invited to hear him.
A potpourri of humorous, opinionated notes from a Texas paper. Witty jabs at politicians and pardons, reflections on car laws, hunting for hogs, and memories of past hard times. References to Dan Moody, Ma, and local incidents weave through an extended column of commentary and social observation.
Mrs. James Kenedy of Dallas attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Davidson Wright in Whattom last Sunday morning and spent the rest of the week visiting her mother, Mrs. Nina York, in town.
Ed Sanders endures lifelong dyspepsy and a tobacco habit that stirs his wife’s ire. Weepin’ eczema and weight gain burden him as his wife’s nagging grows colder, while she wrestles her own issues and fasts in prayer. Standera from Excelsior Missouri reports the tale.
The text discusses the origin of the name Chicago, tracing its Anglicised form from an Indian word meaning skunk. It explains how the term was used to denote strength and pungency, applied to the wild onion and a chief, and linked to a river flowing through the area now known as Chicago. It notes a legend that a Shegahg chief drowned in the stream.
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