Editorial Notes on Campaign Tricks and Community Spirit
The Fredericksburg Standard editor reflects on election year tactics, urging readers to seek truth and avoid party manipulation. He shares a personal anecdote on courtesy and motivates continued local service, noting the paper’s fourteenth birthday and growing subscriber and advertiser support.
The Seven Mistakes of Life Focus and Finance
A Hudsonian list notes seven life errors from crushing others to neglecting reading, worry, impossibility bias, coercive belief, minor distractions, and failing to save. The ad from Weinheimer & Co. promotes the Knoxall washing machine for sale at 5itf.
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Weinheimer & Co
Houston Post on War Path and German Voter Influence
Wochenblatt discusses the Houston Post’s anger over German voters urged to back Bailey and the backlash against hyphenated Americans. It argues primaries drew non Democrats and cites opposition to the League of Nations and party lines, urging lessons from Georgia Maine and Michigan results.
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Post
Harding
Hans
Georgia
Maine
League of Nations
Franklin Roosevelt
Wochenblatt
Austin
Coal Shortage Prompt Texas Chamber Appeal for Rail Cars
The Texas Chamber of Commerce asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue a special service order for fifty coal cars daily for sixty days to northwest Texas. The move follows appeals from Amarillo, San Angelo, Lubbock, Vernon, Abilene, and other cities, with a Fort Worth conference noting most towns are behind on orders. Officials from coal interests and railroads indicated ICC aid would be welcomed, hoping to secure coal until January 1 when normal conditions are expected to return.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas
Amarillo
San Angelo
Lubbock
Vernon
Abilene
Texas Coal Dealers’ Association
Fort Worth
C. B. Yandell
Texas Chamber of Commerce
W. F. Sterley
Denver
W. C. Kenyon
C. R.goodman
Dallas
T. P. Barron
Vernon Chamber of Commerce
Colorado
New Mexico
West Texas
Childress
Panhandle Plains
Red River Valley
H. A. Johnson
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Sterley
Northwest Texas
Those Who Stand and Wait: A Sonnet on Blindness
The speaker reflects on wasted talent and divine expectation. Though limited by blindness and years, the poem asserts that service to God is not only in active labor but in patient endurance. It argues that God does not require constant effort or gifts to be valued, but that bearing his mild yoke can be a noble form of service.
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America
United States
Germany
Great Britain
League of Nations
Standard
Emerson on strength shaping opportunity and estates
The quote asserts that a strong man creates opportunities and possibilities where others see only current farms and houses. It frames force as a driving force in society, with the eye of the strong rapidly turning imagination into tangible estates through leadership and initiative.
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Emerson
No nation can be destroyed while it has a good home life
A quotation attributed to J. G. Holland asserts that a nation's strength lies in its domestic life, suggesting stability at the family level safeguards a country’s endurance. The saying emphasizes the link between home life and national resilience.
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J. G. Holland
Immortality through brave faithful living
Henry Van Dyke notes a single path to immortality: loving this life and living it with bravery and faith, cheering fully in every moment.
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Henry van Dyke
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