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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1924
Page
6
Public notices from Fredericksburg Publishing Co request communications directed to Bookkeeper's Dept for business matters and Editor's Dept for other items. Managing editor and staff details listed. paper entered as second class matter in Fredericksburg Texas.
The Standard unqualifiedly backs Alfred Petsch for Representative citing training, public spirit, and local roots in Gillespie County, Blanco, and Kendall. It urges Fredericksburg to prioritize a reliable city water supply and notes rising farm prices boosting local business, then miscellany covers farming prosperity, education costs, and various curiosities from around the world.
The citizen should care about schools as they shape social progress and affect future generations. Fire Prevention day is proclaimed for October 30 to stress public utility and safety. A 45-pound Polyporus Berkeleyi mushroom is on display at Horticultural Hall in Boston. The Turkish government plans to auction Constantinople’s Sultan’s Palace near a million-dollar reserve. Hindus observe strict purification during solar eclipses including fasting and disposal of cooked food. Brass vessels and earthen pots are scoured or destroyed as part of rites. Personal purification involves a bath in sacred Indian rivers.
An ancient papyrus almanac, about three thousand years old, is housed in the British Museum. The artifact, found on a mummy in Egypt, reflects early record keeping and scholarship.
Two marble incrusted galleys once fitted as floating palaces for Emperor Caligula lie at the bottom of a lake in the Alban Hills Italy. After his death the successor neglected them and they rotted and sank. Water may be drawn off to expose the wrecks for viewing.
A deckman on the sixteen ton liner Arabic was swept from a deck by heavy seas. He landed on the deck below after being carried by the water and sustained only minor bruises.
Petersburg notices describe residents busy with cotton and land work and sowing grain. Visitors include Walter Grona from Kerrville, Jim Jung's family, and Mrs Edna Fiedler helping ill mother. Local travels include Edgar Moses at the Austin fair and goats on a Kerrville ranch. A sick report on Jim Jung and a search for Petersburg school teachers ends the item.
The ad from KNOPP & METZGER repeats that they buy turkeys hens fryers eggs butter and all country produce underlines their trade. The notice also mentions a USDA estimate of 12 787 000 bales of cotton to be produced in the United States this season and encourages subscription to the Standard.
The Oc tober 5th program by the Epworth League at First M. E. Church South features E. W. Hahn as leader and includes opening exercises, a talk on discovering the will of God by Mrs. A. B. Williamson, music, a World offering by Louise Bode, hymn, and a Christmas piece by H. J. Hahn. The church will be decorated with harvest gifts and a quarterly congregational meeting follows the morning services led by Pastor F. A. Bracher.
The Harvest Home Festival will be celebrated at Zions Church on Sunday with services starting at 10 a m. The event continues from the weekend into Saturday activities.
An advertisement offers grain at 1.35 dollars per bushel and urges readers to place orders promptly, inviting written inquiries or in person visits for details.
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