Choosing the Right Present from The Youth's Companion
The Youths Companion promotes a one year subscription for 2.00 including 52 weekly issues and a 1914 calendar. Samples can be sent with issues of Arthur Stanwood Pier's His Fathers Son and the 1914 announcement. Subscriptions and samples available from The Youths Companion, 144 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass.
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Arthur Stanwood Pier
THE
Youths Companion
Berkeley St
Boston
Mass
Christmas Box of Sea Shells and Curios by Alice Warner
Florida vendor Alice Warner offers a postpaid Christmas Box featuring more than fifty labeled items such as sea shells coral sea beans alligator teeth and chet shells plus a shell belt pin sticks pin collar pins and gold linked shell banzers. Boxes cost 50 cents with requests for 2 cent stamps or money orders to 2029 Hershell Street Jacksonville Florida.
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Florida
Don’t Merely Be a Paid Member Be an Active Member
The message urges readers to engage beyond payment, emphasizing active participation and involvement as a member. It calls for taking part in opportunities, contributing time, and supporting the organization through action rather than dues alone.
Scientific Kitchens Needed On The Farm
The kitchen of the housewife on the farm is the weakest point in scientific farming. Science has improved farming but has done little for the kitchen, where storage and cooling are poor. The farm man should apply science to the kitchen as well as to barns and crops to improve health and happiness.
Home Efficiency and the Smart Buying Habit
The piece compares housewives to business leaders, arguing efficiency equals how far a dollar travels. It urges daily readers to consult newspaper ads to curb living costs and develop an ad reading habit to locate value and cut expenses.
Annie Kramer Reported Very Ill After Week of Illness
Miss Annie Kramer has been very sick during the past week according to local reports. Her condition prompted concern among family friends and neighbors.
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Annie Kramer
Good Roads and Prison Reform for Texas
The text argues that poor highways hinder labor profits and education, urging material highway improvements and better marketing. It advocates reform in prison sentences rather than revenge, praising Colorado warden Tynan’s use of convict labor on public highways as a model for Texas.
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Texas
Tynan
Colorado
Lone Star
City Building Notes on Growth and Education
A reflective piece urges love for one's town and timely progress through education and development. It warns stagnation as a dangerous disease that can kill communities and recalls tombstones marking towns that rested without action.
Rainy West Texas Notes and Local Happenings
County correspondence from Eliasville reports persistent rain and social news. Lora Price leaves for Woodson to cover Miss Hettie Pratt’s school. Rev Dellinger preaches on Thanksgiving. large dinner at R A Chanan home. Stella Moore visits family. Baptist Fifth Sunday meetings yield missions sermons. Walter Long welcomes a baby girl. Lila Cunningham visits. Bob Souter visits Murray. Will Fawks and Allie attend quarterly conference. Otis Cunningham visits Throckmorton. Grantham moves dry goods to the new Odd Fellows building this week.
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Walter Long
Lila* Cunningham
Bob Souter
W. H. Ardis
Murray
Will Fawks
Allie
Otis Cunningham
Throckmorton
Mr. Grantham
Odd Fellows
Local Notes From Olney And Nearby Towns
Various brief items note social visits and engagements in Olney including Jean Misses Eiva and Ruth Logan, Allie Thompson visiting Nona Cornelius, Maud Thompson teaching at weaving high school, and Vera Logan visiting Markley. Also reports Rev Nobles preaching, rain delays on the railroad, Emmett Brumbley’s Wichita Falls trip, Clyde Daniels and Miss Elliott’s marriage, Sam Keen guarding cattle pasture, W O W lodge visit by Dr Harrell and Mr Scott, Ada Edsel’s trip to Olney, S A Smith’s runaway team, Morris’s street advertising, and Thanksgiving rabbit hunt by Spring Creek men who tallied 276 rabbits.
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Eiva
Ruth Logan
Olney
Allie Thompson
Nona Cornelius
Briar Grand
Maud Thompson
Weving High School
H. K. Weems
A .J Cantwell
Joe Robertson
Busness
Vera Logan
Markley
Rev. Nobles
Spring Creek
Megargel
W. O. W. Lodge
Dr. Harrell
Mr. Scott
Pierce-Fordyce
A. B. Edsel
S. A. Smith
Mr. Morris
Edgar Holder
Wichita Falls
Burkburnett
Trely
Farm Facts and Farming Principles
A discussion on farming ideals emphasizes clean stock, profitable marketing, and the value of industrialized farming. It argues livestock production and soil fertilization underpin farm success, prudent margins fund rainy days, and cooperation with business experts reduces ignorance and prejudice among toilers of the land.
President Wilson’s Daughter Weds in White House
Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, marries Francis Bowes Sayre at the White House on November 25. Gifts include a diamond necklace with lavaliere from House members and a Senate silver service. The 135 pound cake stands 21 feet tall and cost about $500 with nineteen ingredients. Austin-A Request urges Texas representation at the Panama National Exposition in Panama City from November 1914 to April 1915. Governor O B Slau nt endorses the proposal and mails copies to commercial groups.
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Jessie Wilson
Wilson
White House
Francis Bowes Sayre
House of Representatives
Senate
Austin
O. B. “Slauntt
Department of Civil Administration
Ancon
Panama
Texas
Panama City
December 1913 Store Promotion At Woods Jeweler
J L Woods Jeweler and Optician offers December rewards for the largest purchases or catalogue orders with a choice of any article from reliable catalogues. Dallas shipments in three days with good price reductions. Also notes a Texas City steel plant announcement and Weatherford railroad exhibit booth by the Texas and Pacific Railroad with chamber of commerce oversight.
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Dallas
J. L. Woods
Igest
Weatherford
The
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Parker County
Chamber of Commerce
Pecans Shipped in Bulk as Winter Demand Grows
More than 60 000 bushels of pecans were shipped from the area last week to northern markets. The nuts are larger than usual and of excellent flavor. This marks the first pecan shipment of the year. Alice community silos prove valuable to farmers with many forage feeders being erected. Farmers prepare ensilage for winter livestock feed.
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Mason
Alice
Bull to Promote National Corn Exposition Tour
Dallas C. P. Bull, manager secretary of the National Corn Exposition, left the city to extend a trip to the Pacific Coast. He will deliver a series of lectures on the exposition planned to be held here in 1914.
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Dallas
C. P. Bull
Paciffc
Heaviest San Angelo cattle shipment of fall sent to Fort Worth
March and Cawley shipped sixteen carloads of fat steers and cows to the Fort Worth market this week. The move represented the heaviest fall shipment from San Angelo and brought a good price for the cattle.
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San Angelo
March & Cawley
Fort Worth
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength
The Old Standard tonic claims to drive out malaria and build up the system. It is described as a true tonic and appetiser for both adults and children. The advertisement emphasizes general strengthening benefits.
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Grove
Local residents in town this past week
Oliver Loving Jr visited Jermyn while Lester Braddock came from South Bend on Monday. Nora Shannon returned from Fort Worth, and Mrs S. Horton plans to move to Dallas. Vera Dalton left for Fort Worth after visiting Alice Logan. Mr and Mrs M K Graham returned from the Fort Worth Stock Show. Leroy Britton did business from South Bend on Monday. Alice, the little daughter of a local family, left for Henrietta to visit the Featherstones. Roy D Gholson left for Quanah after two weeks with his Mabry parents. R E Phillips and family moved here from Wichita Falls and stay with Mrs Horton on South Oak. P G Cunningham visited from the Clear Fork. Some small grain is jointing and likely to face a hard winter.
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Roy D. Gholson
Quanah
R. E. Mabry
R. E. Phillips
Waples Platter Grocery Company
Wichita Falls
Mrs. Horton
South Oak Street
P. G. Cunningham
Clear Fork
Mathews and Noris Advertise Furniture and Bedding
Local catalog note from Mathews and Noris promoting furniture items including beds bed springs and mattresses while inviting customer attention for any needs in furniture and related supplies.
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Mathews & Noris
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Graham Gotton
Graham, Texas
Alice Warner
Hershell St
Jacksonville, Fla
Ian
Jean
Texas City
Mane
AL Re
Mig
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Chicago
Lyne
Cal
Ee Ee
France
Oliver Loving Jr
Jermyn
Lester Braddock
South Bend
Nora Shannon
S. Horton
Vera Dalton
Alice Logan
Leroy Britton
M. K. Graham
Henrietta
Mrs. Featherstone
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