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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1934
Page
8
A garbled entry describes January work and farm tasks. It mentions timing and a need to finish tasks, with unclear references to people and places. The readable portion signals planning and effort for timely completion of farm related duties.
A county campaign seeks cotton farmers to fill contract forms or risk no record of refusal. A list of community committeemen is named including Wilton Allsgton H C Eagle Lake Otto Leppin Welmar and others, calling for at least three more committeemen in Columbus Mentz and Shaw’s Bend Santa Anna. The effort stresses cooperative action and county agent services to ensure acreage reduction targets are met.
A Tuesday afternoon event hosted by Mrs B Roos featured the Methodist Woman's Missionary Society with Mrs PP Gordon leading. Five ladies presented a playlet on Stewardship and several members delivered papers on a lesson. A silver tea is planned for a future Tuesday afternoon with the location to be announced at church Sunday.
An Oregon Gazette-Times editorial reflects on editors across the Pacific coast, noting the industry’s financial strain and political entanglements. It argues editors contribute to towns, deserve respect, and may someday write readers’ obituaries.
William E Holler announces new 1934 Chevrolet prices at the New York Automobile Show arriving from Detroit. Five-window coupe 563, sport coupe 605, coach 585, sedan 645, town sedan 615, sport roadster 545, cabriolet 663. Prices average 8 percent above 1933, with delivered prices reflecting about 3 percent regional variation due to freight.
January 1919 items report a new state bank to be opened in Garwood within days with officers named including J J Pinchback WS Griffith and Frank Arioli among others. Also notes Buick sale by J L Baughman, Eagle Lake auto center growth, and local social officer installations with W O W lodge and La Girele of Chat.
Rev. A. F. Foerster of Garwood Methodist Church is rapidly recovering from a serious operation performed on January 1. He is expected home by week’s end and will resume duties soon. Mr and Mrs Raymond Kohleffel and children Raymond Lee and Dorothy Elen, plus Mrs J D Amnett, spent last week in Trinity visiting Mr and Mrs E E Stgl.
A New York department store illustrated how price levels ripple through the economy. A 89 cent shirt and a 1.25 dollar shirt bore the same appearance yet different outcomes for workers. Cotton growers, mill workers, and finishers earned far less on the cheaper shirt, while the higher priced item yielded fair wages and profits for producers, the store, and buyers.
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