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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1940
Page
2
The Barper Home Demonstration Club announces a get together day on Saturday April 20 to clean the cemetery. Mrs L A Stevens Mrs Mevens Mrs Fritz Bier Mrs J T Glass and Elton wf attended Fredericksburg visits Wednesday. Patronise Herald Advertisers.
The article explains pertussis as an epidemic infectious disease spread by droplet infection, stressing isolation after onset to limit transmission. It describes initial mild coughing progressing to explosive spells causing exhaustion and cyanosis, with infancy bronchopneumonia as a common complication.
Article spells out tuberculosiss, convulsions and paralysis from severe coughing and asthma. It notes vaccines prevent whooping cough and are the preferred control before infection. Serums aid those not vaccinated by reducing severity and shortening illness. Local social notes mention Tolberts Hoffman and Whitewood visitors to Harper and Fredericksburg.
Legal beer is seven years old this month brought back by Congress on April 7 1933 to provide revenue for the government it has become one of the nations biggest tax-payers. The United Brewers Industrial Foundation reports that in seven years since re legalization the brewing industry has provided steady employment for a million people bought 600 million dollars worth of farm products contributed two and a quarter billion dollars in taxes created eleven billion dollars in business benefits purchased a billion dollars worth of machinery and equipment spent 400 million dollars for power and transportation and established an expanding industry program to protect the public against abuses in the retail sale of beer.
The article notes vegetables are scarce after a Florida freeze and hail, while canned and frozen veges remain plentiful. It highlights cheap turkey and fowl for gatherings, affordable beef pork and veal, and warns lamb prices are higher. Three dinner menus offer low, moderate, and very special options with specific dishes and desserts.
The week’s frock features simple tailored lines with smart Pari sian styling. Notched collar curved pockets contrasting buttons and clever waist tucks create a lithe silhouette. Miss Lang wears a two woven delicate pink check fabric. a heather blue version is also shown.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wright and daughter Margaret Ann and Mrs. J. L. Wright and Mrs. W. H. Sheppard of Junction attended the funeral of S. S. Stewart on Sunday.
Mrs. Leonel Walker and daughters of San Antonio and Y. J. Delevan visited on Sunday with Mrs. Edgar Coggeshall and family and with Mrs. J. M. Stevens and family.
Frost damaged crops across Gillespie County with corn replanting needed for many farms. Fruit losses occurred in several areas and pecan trees show frost bite. Oats and wheat damage is minor except in a few fields where grain was advanced. Miss Maxine Walker of San Antonio visits Miss Merle Coggeshall. Mr and Mrs Fred Whitewood and children visit Kerrville Saturday.
Mrs. Romilda Petermann and Mrs. Edmund Tatsch of Reservation community were shopping in town Wednesday.
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