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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1940
Page
7
Fragmented OCR shows Garwood community page with editor credits, local society items, farming notes, basketball plans, and social happenings. Names such as Mike Wal, Lawrence Stallman, Chas Riltima, and Beaucourt appear amid event mentions, sport plans, and school activities.
DOCA-COLA COMPANY PRESENTS FLOWER FILM describes a Garden Club gathering at Mrs. Work’s home in Hookstmere. Attendees enjoyed Flower Arbor entertainment, canned beverages, and a Flower Arcans display. The club thanks Mr Albucht and the Coca Cola Bottling Company for their kind assistance.
A long readable fragment from a local notice details a seventieth birthday celebration for Mrs. B A Walker at Gavwoue River with relatives including Mr and Mrs Walker, Mrs G W Keeling, Mr Reitz, and many friends. The piece references a nearby oil well brought in during the absence of Mrs Keeling, and mentions several names and visits by kin from Alleyton and Pittsburg.
The National Geographic Society and South Dakota State historians lead an expedition to recover bones of extinct megafauna from the Badlands. Researchers, including Gilbert Grosvenor, describe a horned deer-like titanathere and other rhinoceros relatives. The site, exposing buried remains over thousands of years, attracts many visitors to the area and may yield both bones and scientific insight.
The Rock Island Girls of the Akbuty club invite all to a pie supper in the Teck Ieland school building tonight at 7:30. They will serve pies, coffee, and hot chocolate to raise funds with Mrs. Jack Florn as sponsor and a community member driving over to join. Easter gifts are advertised at Jor D and Diina’s.
Eagle Lake librarian Mrs Mabel Var Dorn showcases a colonial home and negro cabin theme in the library with four booklists on Southern life. In honor of Wildlife Week, a set of placards by Miss Van Dorn decorates the shelves. Visitors may view the arrangements at the city hall auditorium and borrow the items by contacting Mrs Van Dorn at the city hall.
Grove Sundberg, recently stationed at Sal Disto California with the U S Navy for two months, will visit his parents Mr and Mrs Heny Sundberg. He expects to be transferred back to the United States Battleship Missilesipi on his return to San Mego.
An ad notes Luna's Drug Store promises a money back guarantee if the first bottle of Leto's fails to satisfy. The vintage claim targets gum itch relief, signaling a consumer tonic from the era.
Texas voters rally behind John N. Garner as the party favorite for the presidency. Garner, praised for common sense and experience, advocates people decided primaries and conventions. Texans plan precinct conventions in May to record support for their distinguished fellow Texan.
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