Electricity prices fall nationwide and in South Texas
A speaker argues electricity costs have dropped across the nation and in Central Power and Light territory. U S Labor Bureau data show living costs up 46 percent since 1913 while electricity is 32 percent below prewar levels. C P and L notes a 37 percent rate reduction over five years and urges use for home farm and industry.
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Texas
U. S. Labor Bureau
Washington
Central Power and Light Company
C. P. and
Honest toil and resolve shape a youth’s future
A fragment praises honest labor and determination over laziness while warning against degraded vanity in work. The voice contrasts farming, machinery, and ambition with moral character, urging self-improvement and perseverance. References to Kodaks and jewels appear as stray images amid the moral exhortation.
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Wang
Ufe
Oddities and Witty Quips from a Bygone Page
A jumble of humor and human observation features cartoons of slang daydreams, misheard phrases, and light banter. It highlights jokes about misused words, social pretensions, and petty mischief with a mix of dialect, city life, and wartime fodder.
Lively Mixed Bits From Farm Tales To Office Savings
A humorous piece contrasts a hornless cow puzzle with a horse impersonation and a telephone miscommunication at a friend’s house. It shifts to a Western company’s frugal weekly meetings where workers boast on gasoline savings, bill-checks, and calling city accounts by phone.
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Es BP Uanby Ae
Scotch bookkeeper and oculist tale mix of wit and misreadings
A Scottish bookkeeper boasts about his frugal habits while an oculist asks a patient to read a line, only to hear the patient read as he struggles to pronounce the word. A Christmas gift misunderstanding unfolds when a wife buys a ring for her husband and a young friend learns of the purchase.
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Dottor
Lost 20 Pounds in Four Weeks Kruschen Aid Claim
Mrs Mae West of St Louis claims to have dropped 20 pounds in four weeks after taking Kruschen Salts. The ad promotes a morning teaspoonful in hot water and a 4 week bottle at Beckmans Drug Store with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Also notes local residents J R Wade Estelle Granger visit Wakie home and W C Cook plans move from Newsall to Lissie.
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Mae West
St. Louis
Kruschen
Beckman’s
J. R. Wade
Miss Estelle
Granger
W. P. Wakie
W. C. Cook
Newsall
Small Towns as Growth Centers Stir Texas Debate
Texas editorials praise Walter B Pitkin on small town life and note small communities attract industry. The Golden Eagle and Temple Telegram discuss big people over big towns as Texas industrials move toward rural plants. Local items include a seven pound boy born October 7 at Galveston and a sale ad for an oil heater.
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The
Texas Weekly
Walter B. Pitkin
Lye
Temple Telegram
Borhood
Goldthwaite
Eagle
Bnet
Lyneaux
Texas
Smal
Engle
Defactory
St Goldthwaite
Elty
Inc
Rome
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Central Power and Licht Company
Strickland Insurance Agency
Strickland
Mage
Eagle Lake
Texa
Alsoon
Michaelis Dairy
Eeaee
Kodaks and the Jewels
F. T. Kollamann
Gan Rynsing
Northwest Corner Square
Sather
Dimmie
Genev
Grocur
Eiler
Litlix
Joan
Dade
John
Mother
Lindbergh
Paris
Albert D. Lasker
Lucy
Mrs. Blank
Ernest W. Jones
R. L. McLellan
J. W. Waldrop
Columbus Hospital
Columbus
J. R. Laughlin
Fitzgerald
Emanuel Roos
Norris
Eagle Lake, Tex
S. C. Holloman
Norris Bldg
Engle Lake, Texas
P. T. Gordon
Fitzgerald Sanitarium Bidg
Br. P. T. Doole
Neiswender
Gulf
World's
GULP
Matagorda
Newgulp
Wharton
Long Point
Fort Bend
County
Second National Bank Bldg
Houston, Texas
Wesley Hintz
Galveston
Heir
Louis Hintz
J. C. Townley
George Townley
Houston
City
Gap
Bruce McCarts
Ifn
East Bernard
Lissie
Central Motor Freight Depot
Crawford ST
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