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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1924
Page
4
The Fredericksburg Standard lists D. R. Schumacher as managing editor and WM. Habenicht as business manager. The paper is published weekly by Fredericksburg Publishing Co and entered at the Fredericksburg post office as second class matter.
An editorial urges the state Motor Vehicle Department to tighten driving license rules by requiring evidence of fitness. It argues licenses should be denied to reckless or incompetent applicants, noting daily accidents justify stricter testing and even jail as a safety measure.
The Chamber notes that mailing back signed tourist home town cards, about 97 cards, can bring national publicity to Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. Business cooperation is urged to boost tourism. A bathing pool and a lake for visitors are suggested improvements to attract tourism.
A Texas speaker urges leveraging natural campsites and fishing spots to draw longer stays from distant visitors. Emphasizing cooperative marketing with national highway towns, the piece argues for affordable lithographed literature and shared tourism promotion to convert travelers into spending guests.
Wool prices noted for May 9 with soy grain and corn figures, oats and cotton seed quoted per unit, eggs and butter fat per pound listed, turkeys No 1 per pound, leather workshops priced, and local shop ads noting Normandy fabric and dotted Swiss goods priced at nearby merchants SCHROEDER BROS and SUGARMANN BROS.
Brownsville reports border officials expect a labor shortfall as many Mexican workers cross Rio Grande and face detention. A party of 61 illegals near La Feria was arrested and deported this week amid rising labor demand in the Rio Grande Valley and West Texas. A San Antonio chamber trip to Brownwood May 13–15 draws 75 firms, with plans for rail links tying West Texas to the Rio Grande region and Corpus Christi.
In Eh Peso Texas on May 6 the El Paso City National Bank failed to open, believed weakened by frozen paper. The bank had been saved from closing three months earlier when $1,000,000 in gold moved from the Federal Reserve Bank vaults. A crowd gathered without incident.
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