Entry at Fredericksburg Post Office Second Class
The notice shows mail or materials entered at the Fredericksburg Texas post office as second class matter.
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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1929
Page
6
The notice shows mail or materials entered at the Fredericksburg Texas post office as second class matter.
Local merchants warn farmers to beware two men passing bad checks after selling furs. A man named Wilson alias Scott is being tracked in Texas as others circulated blank drafts from Lampasas Hide and Fur Co. checks marked forgery. The piece credits Sam Ashburn and notes mohair grading talks at Kerrville with USDA involvement and market prices across cattle hogs and sheep, including price ranges and recent market activity.
Frank P. Grayson and George T. Willingmore push mohair standards after visits to Lordsburg Portland San Francisco and Phoenix with plans to consult mills in Washington. Three grades proposed may expand to many. no tariff change favored as growers are currently profitable. A Texas Angora group plans to send five delegates to Washington to press Ways and Means on the tariff.
The Shell Pipe Line Co is building a 450 mile, electrically welded pipeline from West Texas to the Ship Channel near Houston with a daily capacity of up to 45 000 barrels of oil. It will pass through multiple Texas counties and move 304 carloads of 12 inch pipe into Fredericksburg for parallel private line work.
The Census Bureau reports December cotton consumption at 534 352 bales of lint and 59 555 bales of linters, versus November totals of 610 884 lint and 59 555 linters, and December last year 538 786 lint and 53 758 linters.
An 1922 Texas legal affidavit lists owners and interested parties in The Bank of Fredericksburg Unincorporated, Gillespie County. Names include Adolph Gold Mary Alice Smith Estelle F Smith Elsa Walter and Albert Koennecke. The document affirms ownership and lack of a trust declaration.
Wm. Bierschwab testifies under oath that the Bank of deposit in Fredericksburg Gillespie County Texas operating as Citizens Bank is a partnership between Oscar Krauskopf and Wm. Bierschwale with no other members or financial interests. The oath was sworn January 12 1929 before Notary Max J. Bierschwale in Gillespie County Texas.
Rev W H Mitchell of Columbus Ohio recounts his wife suffering bladder irritation until lithiated buehu Keller Formula provided relief. He states she woke 6 to 8 times nightly and praises the remedy. The 2 cent tablets are sold by Keller Laboratory Mechanicsburg Ohio and Central Drug Co locally.
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