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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1919
Page
2
A quotation notes that true modesty avoids unnecessary blushes. It discusses constipation signaling digestive upset and praises Wright's Indian Nee Pills for restoring regularity without griping. The text adds cheerfulness as a fine trait and calls it the bright weather of the heart.
A brief quip features Iron Men reflecting on social reach with the line I have very few acquaintances, but I ve got about 3,000 friends. Where are they I in the bank. The joke plays on the idea of financial ties over personal ones.
A proverb reflecting that a cane symbolizes enduring support for elders while signaling vulnerabilities for the young, contrasting endurance with inexperience in daily life.
Governor Hobby in a legislative message cites state finances and wartime gains, urges a state budget committee, civil service reforms, and streamlined government while detailing taxes, debt, and demographics as Texas shifts from war to peacetime governance. Paris peace congress opens with Clemenceau, Poincare, Wilson speeches signaling postwar cooperation.
George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information, writes to the Boy Scouts of America thanking them for their service as dispatch bearers for the government. He notes that public opinion is vital to national defense and that Scouts have carried messages to over five million homes, aiding two million pamphlet requests. He states the battle for public opinion is won and commends continued unity.
A letter from Lieut. Col. F. P. Jackson to national headquarters praises boy scouts for reliable service as messengers in the army transport service supplies division. He notes scouts routinely carry confidential official documents between government offices and piers and asserts their training makes them especially trustworthy for guarding orders and sensitive material aboard ships and docks bound for France.
A Scranton scout executive befriends a hospitalized boy from a neighboring town and gives him the tenderfoot test on his twelfth birthday. The inspired boy returns home, forms a troop, and generates townwide enthusiasm for scouting. A timeless line: so shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Governor Hobby submitted a special message and joint resolution urging early favorable action on a constitutional amendment to prohibit liquor. The measure sets May 24, 1919 as the election date, earmarks 5000 dollars for costs, and outlines penalties and enforcement provisions. The message notes the proposal as a united effort by pro prohibition advocates and calls on legislature to submit the amendment to voters. In related action, Nordhaus prepared a free textbook enabling act to provide free books to Texas schoolchildren from the state funds with a reserve for emergencies.
Boy scouts in Butte Montana distributed literature on YMCA work and sought aid. In Waterbury Connecticut the Rotary club supplied 60 auto trucks while 240 scouts gathered books for army camps. In McKeesport Pennsylvania scouts bought a used six cylinder auto to teach auto repair.
A witty dialogue shows a widow named June asking if she has a perfectly good husband. Bess replies yes, she is a widow, highlighting a humorous social exchange.
An advertisement warns not to neglect an aching and suggests influenza may follow a grippy cold. It promotes CAPADINE as a liquid quick relief with a trial bottle priced at 10 cents for two doses and notes larger sizes are available.
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