South-West Texas Boys Fat Stock Show Heads to San Antonio
About 300 boys from around 40 Texas counties will bring calves hogs sheep and goats to the South-West Texas Boys Fat Stock Show in Brackenridge Park San Antonio February 19 to 22. Premiums total about 1600 dollars with local sales and a 130 dollar Theme and Record Contest.
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Texas
San Antonio
Brackenridge Park
Alamo Stadium
Mmany
Cal
Earl Martin
Greensburg
Indiana
Fritz Lehmberg
Mason
Egon Artz
Twin Sisters
Royce Brauner
Schulenberg
Marvin Hartmann
Johnson City
Union Stockyards of
Vachel W. Lackey
G. C. Hagelstein
W. H. Krueger
Roy M. Rothmann
C. D. Cannon
E. W. Bickett
H. A. Fitzhugh
R. Beal Pumphrey
Sec
W. R. Harris
Bill Eee
Southwest Texas
F.F.A
Willys introduces five new low cost models in Toledo
Willys-Overland Motors announces five models Speedway sedan station wagon cab over engine panel truck cab pick up and taxicab, with f o b Toledo prices from 620 to 849 dollars. Frazer notes these combine car ease with truck utility and target defense program needs.
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Toledo
Willys - Overland Motors, Inc
Speedway
Joseph W. Frazer
Willys-Overland
Frazer
F.o.b. Toledo
Willys
Parker Family Excursion to Round Mountain Tuesday
Mr and Mrs Carlos Parker and children and Mrs Olive Parker and Miss Fay traveled to Round Mountain on Tuesday.
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Carlos Parker
Olive Parker
Miss Fay
Round Mountain
Obituary of Michael Gerhard of Fredericksburg
Michael Gerhard born January 3 1849 near Koblenz Germany died February 8 1941 at age 92 in Fredericksburg. Survived by children Adolf Emil Ernst Luis Elsie and Anna Lindig seven grandchildren three great grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral services conducted by Rev O Lindenberg at Schaetter's funeral home with choir Columbia singing at the funeral and grave. interment in the city cemetery.
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Michael Gerhard
Hunerick
Koblenz
Germany
Nickolaus Gerhard
Fredericksburg
Marie Rahe
Borchers
Adolf
Emil
Ernst
oLuis
Elsie Gerhard
Anna
Albert Lindig
Johnoon City
O. Lindenberg
Schaetter
Columbia
Mrs William Grobe obituary notes long Texas life
Mrs William Grobe born Clara Jacoby in Gillespie County January 28 1855 died February 6 1941 aged 86. Survived by husband F W Grobe four daughters and one son and many grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at Beckmanns with Bethany church choir. buried Cave Creek cemetery.
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Wm. Grobe
Clara Jacoby
Gillespie County
Nickolaus Jacoby
F. W. Grobe
Auguste
Waldemar Klier
Hulda
Albert Immel
Carolina
Levy Hitzfeld
San Antonio
Mathilde
George Klein
Lenora
Reinhold Eckhardt
Anna
Herman Weinhemer
Edwin Grobe
Henry Schlueter
Cave Creek
Stonewall
Fredericksburg
Theo. M. Haag
Beckmann
Bethany Church
Cave Creek Cemetery
Wood valued in war efforts across shoot wear and eat needs
The Forest Products Laboratory in Madison says wood will play a bigger role in defense, with uses ranging from barracks and ships to plywood airplanes and armor via new treatments and containers. Germany also ranks wood as a war essential, while U S chemists work to turn wood into ammunition fuels and synthetic materials. Affected by research advances, wood applications include flame resistant paints, redesigned shipping crates, faster drying gunstock blanks, and strengthened components for aircraft. Mrs Burton Brown and two sons visited the Whitewood home in Kerrville.
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U. S. Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
Germany
Hermann Goehring
Forest Laboratory
Forest Producta Laboratory
Friends of Henry Markworth Ill This Week
The note announces Henry Markworth is very ill and wishes him a speedy recovery from his friends.
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Henry Markworth
Kerrville Couple Visits Marper Sunday Evening
Mr and Mrs Warren McDou gall of Kerrville were visitors in Marper Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Roy Cottle are driving a new Chevrolet four door.
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Warren McDougall
Kerrville
Marper
Mrs
Roy Cottle
Housing for Portsmouth defense workers in winter trailers
Snow trailing scene shows Portsmouth Navy Yard workers at Eliot Maine living in snowbanked trailers. They receive electricity water phone and sewer for ten dollars monthly. The air recorded at five degrees above zero when the photo was taken.
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Defense
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Eliot
Big Girl Five Years After Tiny Birth Celebrates Growth
Jacqueline Jean Benson of Chicago, once believed the world’s tiniest baby at 12 ounces, marks five years of steady growth by cutting a five candle cake. A foreign trade award honors promoting arbitration in resolving trade disputes, presented to the American Arbitration Association by Eugene F. Sitterley.
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Jacqueline Jean Benson
Chicago
American Business Organization
C. V. Whitney
Left
American Arbitration Association
Eugene F. Sitterley
Importers’ Guide
Dainty Cherry Crispies Delight Hearts at Tea Parties
A party note extols heart shaped Dainty Cherry Crispies with maraschino cherries in the batter. The recipe favors pure vegetable shortening Spry to preserve the almond cherry flavor and yield wafer thin crisps.
Heart Shaped Spry Cookies Recipe
A vintage style recipe for heart shaped cookies using Spry and flavored with vanilla and almond extract. It instructs creaming fat and sugar, adding egg, folding in flour and baking powder, folding in chopped maraschino cherries, rolling to about inch thickness, cutting with a heart cutter, brushing with egg white glaze, and baking at 375 degrees for about eight minutes yields five dozen cookies.
Care Of Lawns Types of Grass
Mrs. Otto Spaeth discusses lawn care at a Doss Home Demonstration Club meeting on Feb 6 1941. She notes soil bed prep proper fertilizing and watering as essential and that vegetative planting establishes grass faster than seeding. Bermuda and Buffalo grasses are native options with Buffalo mowed less often. Carpet grass makes good shade sod.
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Otto Spaeth
Doss Home
Badhge
Bermuda
Gillespie County
Otto Dittmar
Grapetown 4 H Club Makes Frame Garden Plan
Grapetown 4 H Club met at sponsor Mrs. Wal ter Doebbler’s home. Miss Martin demonstrated a frame garden and members planned to make one. Doughnuts and chocolate were served. Attendees included Viola Hausler Florence Thomas Merlee Hohenberger Gertrude Barth sponsor and Miss Martin. Mrs Bode visited. Next meeting is Monday February 24.
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Grapetown
B-H Club
Walter Doebbler
Miss Martin
Harper News Briefs and Social Weekend Visits
Miss Lillian Killough spent the weekend guesting Miss Helen Brown at the Brown ranch on the Blue Mountains. Misses Doris Coggeshall and Alice Kott were guests of Miss Dawn Whitworth. William Schroeder and Arthur Stehling of Fredericksburg were in Harper Wednesday. John Morris and C. J. Whitewood visited Fredericksburg Wednesday. Doc and Mrs H L Stevens made a trip to Kerrville last Friday. J S Whitewood and Erato Hopf visited John Rogers home Tuesday night. Harper is growing with plans for a lumber yard at an early date.
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Lillian Killough
Helen Brown
Brown Ranch
Blue Mountains
Doris Coggeshall
Alice Kott
Dawn Whitworth
William Schroeder
Arthur Stehling
Fredericksburg
Harper Wednesday
Doc
H. L. Stevens
Kerrville
J. S. Whitewood
Erato Hopf
John Rogers
Harper
Harper High School
Dairy Exhibit Plans Unveiled At Fort Worth Meeting
Texas Dairy Products Association outlines a large dairy education exhibit for its April conference at the Jill Rogers Memorial Coliseum. About 3800 top dairy cattle from across Texas will showcase herd progress alongside Holstein Guernsey and Brown Swiss breeds with educational displays and talks. Wes Crenwelge junior calf winner at Houston Fat Stock Show joins Wharton County delegation touring Gillespie County show plans.
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Fort Worth
Texas Dairy Products Association
Jill Rogers
Texas
Coliseum
Jersey
B. X. Foremost
Wharton County
Wesley Crenwelge
Erwin Crenwelge
Houston
Crenwelge
Gillespie County
Fairgrounds
Mattresses Completed at Harper Center Under Mrs Boatwright
Thirty six mattresses have been completed to date at the Harper center with Mrs Floyd Boatwright in charge of the work.
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Harper Center
Floyd Boatwright
Business visitors George Duderstadt and son in Harper
George Duderstadt and his son Douglas visited Harper on Monday evening for business matters.
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George Duderstadt
Douglas
Harper
Fort Worth and Texas leaders named to dairy convention panel
A special convention committee from Fort Worth and Texas A and M College will guide the Texas Dairy Products Association. Members include John Collier Jr Gay lord Stone P W Williams E H Leiendecker Harvey Smith Prof C N Shepardson and J W Ridgway. The last annual meeting was in March 1940 at College Station.
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John Collier Jr
Gaylord Stone
P. W. Williams
E. H. Leiendecker
Harvey Smith
Fort Worth
C. N. Shepardson
Texas A
M. College
J. W. Ridgway
San Antonio
A. J. Riddle
Denison
Texas Dairy Products Association
Texas A. and
College Station
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Willys Presents
Felix Kensing
Mrs. Kensing
the Missionary Society
Gillie Pape
J. J. Rogers
Royce Buster
Junction
Pat Rogers
Waynne
Fredericksburg, Texas
William Grobe
Valentine
Valentine Cherry Crispies
Squier
Qorn
New Yorks
Eddie
The
Bowery
John Morris
C. J. Whitewood
Patronize Herald Advertisers
Jackie Cooper
Gallant Sons
Charles Starrett
Melvyn Douglas
Rosalind Russell
Donald Duck
Ferdinand the Bull
Donald
T& Century
Corey
Ft. Worth
Mouston
John A. Besier
Douglas Duderstadt Place
Klein Branch
Johnnie
Leona
Madge Romell Whitewood
Brown
A. M. Shoe Store
Max C. Schmidt
Schneider
E. E Saenger Lumber Company
Gece Texa
Schreiner Wool & Mohair
Kerrville, Texas
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