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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1928
Page
5
Sanitation in the orchard is vital to curb disease and pests. Clean fence corners and ditch banks, burn accumulated material, grow a cover crop, remove rotted fruit, scrape loose bark, burn damaged branches, and plow deep to turn under weeds. A stitch in time saves nine for winter pest carryover and spring trouble.
On a cold Christmas Eve at the Padgett place a group of ragged children arrive on the porch with Miss Heppsie’s missing turkey carried on a child’s back. The scene underscores Miss Heppsie’s isolation and harsh judgment of neighbors who are strangers to her world.
Baton Rouge reports Governor Long says he will not commute death sentences for Ada Bonner LeBouef and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, despite pleas. The condemned couple, to hang Jan. 5 for the murder of the wife’s husband, faced a debated clemency stance as Christmas imagery and moral reflections appear in the narration.
A sixteenth century carol encourages merriment at Christmas and gratitude to God. It urges feeding both rich and poor and keeping a door open to the needy as the year passes.
Fort Worth Texas December 13 W F Sutton 14 was unconscious at noon after being shocked and burned on the head by a live wire on a telephone pole near his home He was climbing the pole when found lying on the sidewalk Mrs Sutton said she had sent him to the store shortly before the accident The youth is expected to recover
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