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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1944
Page
2
The account recalls West Africa's peanut farming alongside a deep water crisis. Women trek up to 50 kilometers daily to fetch water, carrying children and five gallon containers on their heads. Lt. Bodenes confirms such long trips are common, portraying resilience amid hardship.
Texas State Health Officer Dr Geo W Cox urges Texans to reflect on personal and community health this Thanksgiving highlighting improvements in maternal and infant mortality and overall public health gains during wartime. He credits public health education local effort and sanitary cooperation for longer life expectancy and ongoing disease control. The notice also includes local society updates and visitors.
The Night School of Religion invites all community members to eight thirty Fridays for free lectures by Rev. James Daly. Topics cover Bible truths and Catholic perspectives with Q and A sessions. First meeting Dec 8 behind the Church, eight week series skipping holidays.
Miss Ida Mae Kneese of Austin returns home after visiting her mother Mrs Ida Kneese in Austin. Miss Dorothy Nell Whitewood and Audrey Mae Brown spend the weekend with their parents. Frank Jones of Fort Worth visited the Arthur Bierschwale home during the weekend.
Mrs. Chris Birch and her children joined Mr. and Mrs. Alton Kneese and their daughter for a weekend visit to Mrs. Ida Kneese, the family matron, last weekend.
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