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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1925
Page
6
Bruce Barton notes editors filter a mass of material into usable content. He imagines photographing wastepaper baskets to study what is discarded daily. Mrs C. Holloway leaves for Weimar after a weeklong visit with Mrs H E Carey and Mrs Fred von Lengerke.
Local residents report visits and travel to Houston El Campo Victoria and East Beaumont. John Horntscher and daughter Marguerite motored to El Campo with Horntscher then traveling to Victoria for a postmasters meeting. Multiple neighbors host callers, business trips, and church services with social calls to Hornischer Welch Reed Barton Cooper Smith and others. A local bakery figure from Eagle Lake is noted, and preaching is planned for next Sunday May 10.
A fragmented 19th century excerpt blends humor and sentiment about patriotism, fishing timing, and fashion. It contrasts a Kansas man avoiding land leases with a loyal fisherman, mocks pantaloons, and lyrically celebrates May’s beauty in nature and people, framed in a quaint rural voice.
The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports alarming racial mortality gaps in Northern cities with Negro death rates far exceeding white rates. It projects rapid decline of the Negro population, noting higher birth rates but shrinking margins and speculation of eventual racial erosion across generations.
A partisan speech argues that pensions are widespread with one in 150 Americans drawing a pension and one in 20 receiving or promised support. It claims three thousand pensioners are foreigners and critiques past costs from the Civil War and other wars, noting ongoing pension payments into the present.
Land buyers warned that no land is cheap and many uncertainties remain about title. The article urges obtaining an abstract of title before purchase and having it examined by an attorney to be on the safe side.
An elderly man from Eagle Lake reports heavy back pain from kidney trouble improving after using Doan's Pills from Beckman's Drug Store. The ad touts Doan's as a stimulant diuretic and cites the Buffalo manufacturer Foster-Milburn. A separate note mentions Altair ferry disruption due to rising Colorado river water and local travel by Columbus. Hayes remedies advertised for coughs and colds.
Mrs Emile Kullman and daughter Katherine of Navasota visit the Corman home. The Bb C E will meet Miss Annie Mae Causey at her sister Mrs Mose Thomas’s home tonight. A call goes out for good ball players to fill vacant spots on the home team. The Hustlers Sunday school class, led by Miss Anna Mae Causey, hosted the girls’ club at Mose Thomas’s home last Friday with games and ice cream and cake.
Two large bronze gobblers disappeared around April 12. Reward offered by S C Smothers Liber al. Kodak films flyer circulated daily at Ulery's store.
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