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Newspaper

Harper Herald

Location

Harper, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1940

Page

5

Harper Home Demonstration Guild Sponsors Cemetery Cleanup Day

The Harper Home Demonstration Guild sponsors the cemetery work for the year and designates Saturday April 20 as the get together day for cleanup. Fredericksburg visitors with Mrs L A Stevens Mrs Mevens Mrs Fritz Bier Mrs J T Glass and Elton Spencer were here Wednesday. Patronise Herald Advertisers.

Harper Home Demonstration Geb Nhe L. A. Stevens Mevens Fritz Bier J. T. Glass Elton Spencer Fredericksburg

Whooping cough and vaccination progress

The article discusses whooping cough as a preventable infectious disease transmitted by droplets and mitigated by isolation and vaccination. It notes severe coughing, potential complications like bronchopneumonia and convulsions, and cites vaccines as the best control, with serum as a secondary aid for unvaccinated individuals. Local notices follow about visits by Mr and Mrs Tolbert and others.

Frock Of The Week Highlights Simple Yet Smart Fashion

Hollywood star June Lang models a remarkable simple tailored gown with a notched collar curved pockets contrasting buttons and clever waist tucks. The woven delicate check fabric in deep pink and heather blue options suit dances sports theater or afternoon clubs.

Horace Heidt Presents Golden Voices on BC-Red Network

Horace Heidt features the Golden Voices, a Le Ahn sisters quartet Virginia Maree Jean and Miriam, on a Tuesday 8:30 p.m. segment. Heidt discovered them by long distance phone in Texas then signed them up after flying to the Lone Star State, calling the move one of his luckiest calls.

Horace Heidt Golden Voices Bc-Red le Ahn Virginia Maree Jean Miriam Heidt Texas New York Lone Star State Heidi

Beer Seven Years Old And Big Tax Payer

Legal beer marks seven years since re legalization on April 27 1933. The United Brewers Industrial Foundation says the brewing industry has employed about one million people and bought 600 million dollars of farm products. It has paid two and a quarter billion dollars in taxes and created eleven billion dollars in business benefits. It also purchased a billion dollars worth of machinery and equipment and spent 400 million dollars on power and transportation.

Congress United Brewers Industrial Foundation

Sunday Dinner Suggestions and Price Look at Local Foods

The article notes vegetables are scarce after a Florida freeze and hail, but canned and frozen vegetables remain abundant. Turkeys and fowl are cheap, beef pork veal are reasonable, and lamb is pricier. It lists three dinner menus at low to moderate cost and mentions shoppers Romilda Petermann and Edmund Tatsch in Reserva tion.

Florida Cora Anthony A&p

Frost and Family Visits Highlight Rural County News

The report notes multiple local completions and visits including the Wright family attending a funeral for S. S. Stewart. Visitors from San Antonio include Mrs. Leonel Walker and daugh ters, plus Y. J. Delevan with Mrs. Edgar Coggeshall and Mrs. J. M. Stevens. Farmers report replanting corn due to a freeze.

Leonel Walker San Antonio Y. J. Delevan Edgar Coggeshall J. M. Stevens Gillespie Our

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Patronise Herald White Oak Mronco Ottmar Schnerr Senorita Bob Tolbert Small Son Harper Wednesday Tolbert Hoffman Harper John S. Whitewood Staffel’s Woerner’s Staffel Feed & Seed Co Kerrville Bode Feed Store Kerrville, Texas E. E. Saenger Lumber Company Schreiner Wool & Mohair Palace Theatre Priscilla Gane Dennis Morgan Warner Bros Web.Thurs Hollywood June Lang Rialto Dolores del Rio and John Howard Man From Dakota Wallace Beery Romilda Petermann Edmund Tatsch Reservation Community Baron HL Veers Avenue Temple Lumber Co ATT Sunnyside Liquor Sunnyside Hut Uxay Bangsydysepesy Ad. Knesek Coel Lewis Jewelry J. O. Wright Margaret Ann J. L. Wright W. H. Sheppard Junction S. S. Stewart Maxine Walker Merle Coggeshall Fred Whitewood Wallace Beery, John Howard the Man Walt Disneys Technicolor Ronald Colman Rudyard Kiplings Walter Huston Ida Lupino Clothiers Texaco James E. Fritz del Monte & Libbys
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