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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1938
Page
2
The fragment describes a gentleman purchasing with a clerk delaying and asking for a first wife while the narrator recalls awkward exchanges. Names such as Ann Thomas Skeletin and Casyo Hood appear in a garbled dialogue, with partial phrases about purchases and misunderstandings.
A crowded school gossip column details pep rally aftermath, student romances, and social sightings. It names Annett, Dorothy Peters, Boyd, Harrison W, Betty Julie, and others, plus brief reports on Miss Oltman, Jack Obenhaus, Elmer, and Henry Brasher attending events and a Golden Wedding reception for J. L. Weddell.
Names of local residents and visitors appear, noting several families from East Bernard and Houston spending time at homes of friends and relatives. People mentioned include Leonore Seiph Mir, Mrs Tankstey, HR Brown Jr and family, J R Denton and family, Carl Mulbard, Stace, Mrs A Jordan, Mrs Prorence McAikin, Red Mcbain, Inette Tanksley, Pred C. Gerlson and family, and Mr B. Wills. The piece also promotes DeLuxe soda at a local store.
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