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Newspaper
Floresville Chronicle Journal
Location
Floresville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
3
A rain event in Floresville, local clerking moves at John Griffith's Co, and multiple town notices fill the page. Mentions of Hughes, Staudt’s Fountain, Chappell's saddlery, and various residents reflect a lively small town daybook with ads, visits, and community updates.
An advertisement urges readers to enroll at Tyler Commercial College in Tyler Texas for quick thorough courses in bookkeeping shorthand and telegraphy. It claims rising business demand and factory openings create abundant job opportunities for graduates and emphasizes placement assistance and practical training by the college.
We offer refrigerators from five dollars, mosquito bars and frames, hammocks in various styles, bamboo porch blinds to shade and cool spaces, baskets of all sizes, bamboo and oak music racks, and a full line of items from a furniture store. We invite you to inquire about anything you need and appreciate your business.
Advertisement promises best available eyewear and fitting service with satisfaction guaranteed. Customers may return glasses if not fully pleased, encouraging trial and purchase at M M UGHBS establishment.
For sale 31 head of well bred males aged eight and four years, heights range from 14 to 154 hands. Call on or address Teas, Monkhouse & Matlock, Floresville, Taxas.
Announcements list candidates for the 934th Representative District R. R. Smith for representative, H. B. Gouger for county judge, W. A. Scott for county treasurer, and T. O. C. McDaniel for tax collector.
A Monday night party at Mr and Mrs A B Murray’s residence honored Miss Lucile Lakey and Miss Anita Heberer of Range. Large attendance noted. the little guests have since returned home. Victor records and instruments advertised. August 20 marked Floresville storm anniversary with church damage. Owen Maddox and Elam Beall of Lavernia attended a local trial for Jesse Thornton linked to mortgaged property disposal.
The notice advertises a clearance of children's apparel including sizes five and up. It lists limited stock and discounted pricing, urging shoppers to visit the store location before supplies run out.
A letter from Floresville Texas recounts a seven year paint cost puzzle using Devoe paint. It compares gallon prices of 1.60 and 1.75 and shows how differing application led to varying per house costs, concluding Devoe costs less and lasts longer.
Harry Miller notes the town visit of a plump drummer. Former Kerr County Sheriff John W. Vann, who later held U.S. marshal and Brownsville customs posts, has been dismissed from federal service without a formal hearing amid intra party charges.
Public auction to satisfy a deed of trust on property in Stockdale Wilson County Texas. The sale by trustee J J Sutton is set for the first Tuesday in September 1908 at Floresville courthouse door, including land in Block 3 and part of Block 6 plus all gin stands engines belts and related property with a total due of 602.80. The note was for 516.60 dated November 29 1907 and matured November 30 1907 with 10 percent interest and 10 percent attorney fees. The owner is L R Wheeler and default triggered the sale.
The veteran statesman Hon. A. Q. Mills is doing well in a Baltimore hospital. Relatives and friends believe he will recover.
An old advertisement touts Cascasweet as a trusted remedy for babies and children. It promises quick soothing effects with clearly printed ingredients on the bottle and notes no opiates. Available through All Drugistes.
The days of the Merry Widows hat are numbered as next year’s Lats for ladies are set to be as small as possible, roughly the size of a silver dollar.
East Poland Maine resident W Stone endorses Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for sore feet and burns cuts and abrasions. The ad claims it comforts piles as well. Sold under guarantee at Palace Drug Store 25 cents.
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