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Newspaper
Floresville Chronicle Journal
Location
Floresville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
7
A Texas dispatch notes the Panhandle's grain crops are praised as excellent with estimates showing 700 bales of reefer prospects and an overall improved outlook. The staff tour indicates yields are well above last year with projections around 80,000 bales higher.
Floresville City Council orders an August 1925 election to authorize bonds up to one thousand dollars to fund water works. Bonds mature over forty years at fixed interest with a sinking fund, financed by a property tax levy. The Mayor presides with appointed officials, and notices will be published in local papers thirty days prior.
A fragmented synopsis traces Selina a Vermont widow teacher, her bond with farmer DeJong, and a series of marriages and ambitions across a rural community. It follows Selina’s romantic entanglements, from teacher pupil proximity to marriage, later family shifts, a son's voyage to study in France, and evolving domestic roles amid social constraints of the era.
Papers signed in Austin for a 30000 acre state game sanctuary on the Sayles Cunningham and Munger ranches in Taylor County along Lake Abilene. Deer and quail placed prior to official opening. sanctuary grants absolute protection under a new law. Sayles and Charles Motz Jr signed the agreement with Turner Hubby, with future plans to establish propagation on Matagorda Island.
A vivid satire lists ten rules for mail order schemes urging cash upfront, distrust of buyers, and profit motives. It condemns using customer money to buy factory goods, avoiding road-building aid, pressuring church and local merchants, and courting faith and desire for catalogs while exploiting buyers. The piece critiques national scale mail order fraud and urges caution.
A Gonzales County chamber delegation led by R S Dilworth and others traveled to Austin to press the State Highway Commission for better maintenance on primary gravel roads and to address additional road matters. The group reported that a hearing was hard to secure due to many delegates, but they were assured improved gravel road maintenance and noted that Highway No 21 from Gonzales to Karnes City had been approved in a prior meeting, though not recorded. Also included: a Bee Melon tips piece about a 84 pound melon exhibited in Beeville and plans for larger melons, plus a note offering business college scholarships for sale at the Chronicle Journal office.
An old time drug advertisement claims Calotabs purge the body of chronic ailments to restore vitality. It touts a course as a remedy and mentions a trial panel and egg of all eggs price and availability at drug stores.
Runge Texas reports the 2023 crop season with 1 030 bales ginned by Saturday night. Farmers sell as they pick, reflecting steady lint production and ongoing harvest activity.
Beeville Texas August 2 reply to Sid King secretary of the Beeville Chamber of Commerce to the Highway Commission. They will repair a bad road near Path after rains. R J Hanks state highway engineer announced the road will be repaired in the near future.
An excerpt promotes Herbine as a home remedy. The bottle is described as like having a doctor in the house, suggesting it restores energy, mood, and buoyancy. It claims one to two doses start movement and lifting spirits, priced at 60 cents, with L D Flores as the druggist.
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