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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1928
Page
6
Public instructed to send all communications to the Fredericksburg Publishing Co. The note directs business mail to Bookkeeper's Dept. and all other items to Editor's Dept. The item shows the post office classification and department routing for correspondence.
The piece argues peak seasonal demand tests public services and praises Fredericksburg post office staff for Christmas readiness while urging early mailing. It notes Gillespie County fair’s role in agricultural progress, analyzes advertising growth, and cites changes toward informative ads. It also surveys livestock, hogs, calves, and sheep markets with price ranges and weekly trends.
The article argues advertising as a force in modern business is expanding in size and effectiveness. It notes the rise of newspaper advertising in thousands of communities such as Fredericksburg and its national scale, visible to casual readers.
At Fort Worth on December 11 1928 buyers showed little appetite for steers with heavy weights dropping about 50 cents per hundred and medium weights 15 to 25 cents. Demand improved for yearlings and medium cattle with prices steady to strong. Grain fed baby beef brings 12.50 to 13 dollars, medium to good 11.50 to 12, stocker steers steady with solid demand, fat cows move with the market trends.
The market lists lambs at 11 to 12.25 with flesh and fat shorn lambs at 12 to 12.50, fat wooled yearlings 11 to 11.50, shorn 10 to 11, and fat shorn wethers at 8 with very little demand for feeders.
Warden E V Harrell said Otis Yeager who escaped last May from a prison farm near Houston has been captured in Mississippi. Yeager was wanted on a highway robbery charge and had been relocated from Harris County.
A one year old youth arrested in Big Spring for attempting to rob the Rix Furniture Company safe. The youth said he came from Marlin and needed money. Earlier a laundry safe was looted for 200 dollars and a second furniture store break failed due to a night watchman.
Vital statistics notice lists multiple marriage licenses including D. E. Meadows with Willie Jackson, Jno G. Schlaudt with Linda Barsch, Walter Sultemeier with Emma Crenwelge, Osa GC Bricker with Estelle Tankersley, Emil Schlueter with Mary Schmidt, Redro O Grote with Gertrude Foerster, Robt Loth with Norma Woerner, and Clarence W McDonald with Thelt Graham.
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