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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1938
Page
2
A collage of dated one liners and vignettes featuring students, wives, clerks, and dockside figures. Jokes play on money, manners, and miscommunications with punchlines about matching lighters, car troubles, taxicabs, and army camp pranks.
A warning on selling a substitute for 666 to gain a few cents, stressing customers as assets and the risk to business. It claims 606 value is three or four times that of a substitute.
A collage of comic travel and domestic scenes spans New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania and Ohio with a couple's cake Indigestion and a boss humor piece about punctuation Then a Jim Crow era punch line shows a worker subletting a paint job to another man while the boss questions the pay and value of being the boss
From Kenedy Advance reports brisk spinach shipments last week with fourteen cars loaded by Thursday morning. Workmen have operated day and night since Friday, using an improvised shed on Front Street. Principal shipper John Cannon led early harvests as more growers prepare. local agent J. W. Grant predicts at least one hundred cars may depart Kenedy soon amid market fluctuations.
Colorado County Citizen reports Mayor Zumwalt disobeyed the preacher and went fishing with Mr. and Mrs. Youens. They drove to Aransas Pass while Mrs. Youens visited relatives. The two men fished from Port Aransas on the same boat used by President Roosevelt. The Mayor says he caught a barrel of sheephead. Nannie Barrow spent the weekend with her daughter Mrs. A. J. Dupree at Lia Grange.
A London Answers Magazine writer notes that many land animals have vocalizations while few lack sound ability. Giraffes have no vocal cords. elephants trumpet. camels squeal. seals bark. hedgehogs make striking noises. pythons may whistle. frogs croak or bleat. some lizards and catfish produce sounds when stressed or out of water.
Sept. B. Cr. Marshall of Garwood visited Saturday and said he had definitely decided to run for representative from the district comprising Colorado and Austin counties. Friends report Joan and Buddy Davis ill with whooping cough. Complete Fountain Service offered by Joe D. Luna Drug Store.
An advertising column promotes Creomulsion for lingering coughs and chest colds. It asserts the medicine targets the airways, loosens phlegm, and promises a refund if not satisfied after the first bottle, urging readers to ask for the single word Creomulsion.
The report states that the new Ford model features an engine designed to cost less to run than any Ford car previously produced, signaling a focus on efficiency and affordability for owners.
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