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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1932
Page
3
Fragmentary notes indicate a report about a headlight issue and a person named Reed Tome, with details sparse and unclear from the source. The item reads like a brief urban snippet or bulletin with limited context and attribution to Chorrkh SPOME.
A Kerrville display shows tomatoes growing on potato vines and a rare “pomato” plant in a Wallace Street garden, with other quirky garden oddities like a two foot cucumber snake. The scene includes local remarks from Mrs. SP Damon of Richmond visiting Kerrville.
Clarence McElroy, an American aviator, was lost for 19 days after a crash near Vera Cruz during a flight to Honduras. Barely able to speak, he endured starvation and brutal jungle conditions, aided by natives who found him and sheltered him in San Geronimo. He drifted through dense brush, eating berries while a search persisted, and is now slated for transit to Mexico City for hospitalization.
The Sun reports the Texas Game Protective Association organized in Travis County with no capital stock aims to protect and propagate wildlife. It seeks cooperation with the Texas Game Commission, advocates combating predatory animals, and proposes bounties on scalps and heads to reduce losses of fish, fowl, and animals in Texas, while promising a future study on the program’s impact and land use shifts.
A visitor at a peculiar cemetery reads the tombstone inscription “Raptr friend, as you pass AS you are now, So, once was I. As I am now, you soon will be. Prepare for death and follow me.” He then adds a cheeky reply asking which way the departed went.
Claude Callan quips that nervousness grows with relatives arriving in a failing auto. He recalls the car’s rough entrance provoking some humiliation and notes his wife explained visitors have a fine car at home. He fears repairs and tire costs during their stay and questions the car’s lasting power. Miss Maurine Gideon returns from San Marcos to visit her aunt Mrs. F A Boeninghays.
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