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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1938
Page
7
A school column mixes student life notes with a whetted focus on midterm exams. Bits on teachers, parties, romance talk, and personal updates from students like Wanda Westmoreland, Lynn Rissen, and William Bates fill a lively page.
Lynn Adaire Risien shows improvement after several weeks of illness during which she received three blood transfusions at Bell Memorial Hospital in Columbus Mississippi. Her third transfusion was given Monday night with cousin Claude Brewer Jr supplying the blood. She was moved to Eagle Lake Tuesday and is staying at the Helney Hotel with her mother nearby.
The First National Bank will observe Wednesday January 19 Robert E. Lee's birthday as a holiday and will not be open for business on that date.
Miss Wanda Westmore and her relatives spent the weekend with grandparents Mr and Mrs J C Westmoreland and family in Yoakum. Substitution tips and warnings about business losses appear in a partial ad fragment mentioning 666 and prices.
D. M. Marshall, Negro County Agent, details 33 fruit trees planted, 5 000 peach seeds sown, 210 acres terraced, 42 acres ditched, 4 560 bushels corn from 190 acres, 7194 pounds seed cotton from 250 acres. Meat cured by extension methods, tanning of cow hides, leather goods made, and insect control sprayed on potatoes and vegetables. Extension work active in nine communities.
Garwood Presbyterian Church announces church school at 10 2 m worship at 11 am with The Law of Happiness sermon. Evening service at 7 pm on Who Speaks to the Churches. Mission Study Thursday 7 pm. Boys Club meets Wednesday 7 pm. Six men attended a profitable Men’s Fellowship banquet in Houston. All invited to worship next Sunday. Thursday Bridge Club went to Houston to see Women at the Majestic Theatre.
Robert Li Ripley lists ten remarkable survivals and feats from 1915 to 1740 including El Fusilado Moguel revived after a firing squad, Dick Creedon surviving a submerged tunnel blast, Zimmy Zibelman’s Hudson River swim, Kaunas longevity farmer Kursonia, a sun-worshiper in Karachi, and Charles V’s abdication tale.
The bridal couple endured a bedroom of ice at 40 degrees below zero where a 2544-pound baby born in July 1935 did not survive. A separate claim notes the World record weight for a normal delivery, while historic figures like the Heavenly King Hung Hatt Chwan are described in relation to rebellions and vast death tolls. Frank James is cited as burying $2,000,000 with a lost fortune near Lawton Ohio after the Wichita mountain cache.
Little Bobbie Hunt marked his seventh birthday with a lawn party at home on Saturday afternoon. Guests enjoyed games, cheese crackers, cold drinks, cake and candies, with tiny dolls and marbles given as party favors. The celebration included family help from Mrs. E. Hunt and others.
A vintage advertisement promotes Creomulsion for coughs and chest colds, claiming it soothes inflamed mucous membranes and loosens phlegm. It guarantees a money back promise if not satisfied after the first bottle and instructs customers to buy the genuine product.
A reflective piece recalls fifty years past with vivid contrasts. It notes cheaper butter and eggs, lower wages, rigid social norms, long work days, and limited medical care, contrasting them with modern mobility and changes in behavior. The tone blends humor and wistful social commentary.
The fragment mentions Chesley Kveton and a trip from here to Trables New Mexico after a pleasant visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Kveton. It also references holidays and sentiments about life work health and prosperity.
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