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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1955
Page
9
The article notes Jack Andrews with Snowball the white mule drawing smiles as he sits on a family visit scene in Gillespie County Missouri relative to the fair environment. It mentions the Fellers and a playful display during a local event with a staff photo caption.
At Fair Jack Andrews brings Snowball the mule a pure white animal with 37 tricks, Jess the 24-year-old Charbray bull, and an Axis deer fawn uneasily trained. He also performs a whip act using 16 foot whips crafted from kangaroo and deerskin. Andrews touts past appearances with Roy Rogers and on Arthur Godfrey plus Life Magazine and Madison Square Garden. He will ride Jess in Friday mornings parade.
A 1984 Ford driven by William Powell of Berkeley California lost control and struck a fence seven miles east of Fredericksburg on US Highway 290 at 9 a.m. The collision damaged the car about 500 dollars, according to State Highway Patrolmen John Huie and Walter Werner who investigated. Also noted are visits by Misses Julia Ann and Jennilea Wiennecke of San Antonio and family visits by the Bierschwaie and Rogers households.
Mr and Mrs Carol Bierschwale celebrate the birth of a baby daughter on August 14. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Fred Bierschwale of Harper.
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