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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1930
Page
2
The advertisement describes a Ford Phaeton model praised for its leather upholstery and seating for four. It notes the folding type folding top and a sport wing windshield effect as features appealing to families and young buyers.
The passage argues that Alice’s 20,000 in trade territory suffer when merchants fail to invite business. It urges inviting customers through advertising and direct outreach, noting competition and the need to extend reach as money tightens. It emphasizes proactive promotion to regain lost trade.
The piece argues that consistent systematic advertising builds trade among Sandia farmers and surrounding communities. It questions personal knowledge of customers, notes large monthly payments to farmers and dairy workers, and urges wider, deeper advertising through personal contact to expand trade reach beyond Alice to Corpus Christi and beyond. It uses a parable about a hen scratching to illustrate persistent effort.
A vintage ad promising heart relief by sleeping on the right side promotes Adlerika as a bowel cleansing remedy. It claims one dose relieves stomach gas, improves sleep, and removes toxins by cleansing the upper and lower bowels, all under Beckman’s Drug Store. The text also mentions the Willbergs and a Sunday afternoon visit.
Jolson and Irving Berlin team for Warner Vitaphone Technicolor film Mammy arriving at the Avalon Theatre. Direction by Michael Curtiz features a cast including Lowell Sherman Lois Moran Louise Dresser Hobart Bosworth and Tully Marshall. Also reports Weimar beats Garwood 2 0 in a Sunday baseball game with Pavlik earning the win and seven strikeouts as Garwood prepares for La Grange Cubs.
Mr C A Schumaker spent a few days last week at George We he returned home Tuesday Mr Schumaker says crops out there are fine Visitors from El Campo included Mr Wilson and Mr Swanson Mrs Q G Schmeeckle Gar wood passed through on route home from visiting her parents at Glen Flora The Riegers and Re fly spent Friday afternoon with the Frelses Mr and Mrs F Blumrich visited at John Little’s Garwood this week The Frels guests Sunday included W A Matthys and sons Max Grisalhart Mr and Mrs Andrew Jacob and daughter Lucy of Makay Mr and Mrs Henry Frels and family Mr Leon Frels of El Campo and L W Frels and sister Annie The Rancho Grande school house dance is set for Saturday everyone invited Mr Bill Schuttier Garwood spent Sunday with E B Gles tman A beneficial rain fell Saturday across parts of the community boosting corn and the cotton outlook and crop prospects.
Ancient Death Valley, famed for scorching heat, is described as a forbidding barrier to summer visitors but transforms into a bloom covered plain after unusual rains. The article recalls 1860 emigrants travelling to California who perished from thirst in the arid wasteland, a 150 mile long valley.
A in-depth desert note describes A L Baring wide naming from the heat reversal in Death Valley. May brought 19 straight days of rain, reviving dormant seeds into a vibrant carpet of wildflowers from Beatty to Kane Spring. Botanist Letson Ballet notes over 100 flower varieties bloom within minutes in a fifty yard radius. Nearby, Mr and Mrs Roberts leave for Tulsa to be with their hospitalized son after an appendectomy. Mesdames Matl and Carey visit Houston on Wednesday.
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