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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1926
Page
16
The Weimar Mercury notes a list of twenty six pardons and reports Nathan Hughes, convicted of murder in Wharton county seventeen years ago, was pardoned by Governor Ferguson. The item recalls older Weimar residents may remember the party.
The Welmar Mercury notes in its Wednesday list of pardons by Governor Ferguson that Will Davis of Colorado county received a pardon after serving 27 years of a life sentence for murder. The pardon board recommended the clemency and the paper records the line We have no recollection of the crime or the party.
A community notice thanks friends and the Altar Society for favors at the funeral hour of a wife and mother and for floral offerings. WM WEISHUHN and Children express gratitude and Otto Miller reports a hog weighing 800 pounds sold at high price. A final item notes a daily prompt and a local ad for hot waffles at Brosig's.
A New England Christmas flashback set at a Marietta family gathering. Gerald visits the grand salon, amid a tropical garden and a festive tree, as Marietta’s brother hints at a marriage for a dowry of eighty thousand dollars. Gerald leaves, pondering a simpler, love-based Christmas.
Jack Reed mails a Christ mas parcel to himself titled One Gift XMAS 67LOYALTY. He calls it a durable personal kit for daily life containing Courage, Will-Power, Perseverance and Patience. He plans no gift for others and imagines a postmaster in his brain delivering the package each day.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a dream motif involving a wooden soldier and a threat of violence. No clear events, names, dates, or locations are identifiable to form a coherent news item.
An article by Dame Clinton discusses terracing in Colorado County noting poultry income from local farms, incubator activity, and the push for soil conservation. It emphasizes terracing's growth, farmer experiences, and the need to learn from elders to prevent land loss and improve agricultural value.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Charles Carroll and a Washington social visit. The text notes Carroll’s etiquette of greeting guests and a remark about his carriage etiquette. It then shifts to a brief Austin report on Denton Industrial Arts College, denouncing coeducation for boys at a girls’ school and the legislative opposition.
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