Local News Roundup From Hearne Texas 1911
A compilation of notices and brief items across Texas. Reports include Beaumont park bond vote at $60 000. Alpine wax paper soap factory site. Waxahachie hotel project $100 000. transfer of 2 900 head of steers in San Angelo. Bryan road bond election $200 000 on February 8. Flatonia creamery October through November output. Sherman county farmer yields 200 bushels of sweet potatoes per acre. Galveston cotton shipment to Japan. U S Department of Agriculture estimate of 1911 1912 cotton production at 4 280 000 bales.
Industrial Dyspepsia and Panama Canal Opportunities
Editorial argues state officials block growth while industry fades. Panama Canal arrives in three years demanding rail, highways, and new industries. Notes underused soil and minerals, waste products becoming wealth, cites Alpine factory turning Candellilla weed into phonograph and wiring insulation products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Alpine
Texas Industrial Notes retaries Association report
Eight bales of cotton were harvested from two and three fourths acres near Harlingen Cameron county this season. Tarrant county voters at an election held December 12 endorsed the issuance of 1,600,000 road and bridge bonds. The bond issue for 400,000 was approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlingen
Cameron County
Tarrant County
Just Eer Me an' Pa. A Plain Ma for Me and Pa
The verse humorously laments models of wives as plain spouses. It contrasts calm home life with fashionable society, favoring a plain kindly woman who smiles, cooks, mends clothes, and sometimes has a baby, as ideal for the narrator’s father and self.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain
Mary Fowler
Puck
No More Visiting Lost Watch Found at Home Note
A newlywed woman visiting from home for a short stay searched the dining room after misplacing her watch at the house. She wrote the hired girl asking to report any findings and to inform her if the watch turned up.
Fragmentary note hints at missing items and visit denial
A garbled excerpt describes dining room items including thirteen empty cigar butts nineteen cigar ends blue and red poker chips pink satin slipper a widow hat under an apple near a hammock. The wife hires an auto and returns home with no visiting.
Health tonic advertised by A B Boyd’s store
An old advertisement touts a digestive and liver support tonic saying it protects bowels prevents jaundice and virulent digestion while boosting health. It emphasizes regulation of liver stomach and bowels and sells for 25 cents at A B Boyd's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.B. Boyd
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Hearne, Texas
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San Angelo
Orange County Commismissioners
Good Roads Department
Washington
Bryan
Flatonia
Sherman County
Galveston
Japan
United States Department of Agriculture
Commercial Secretaries Association
Texas Industrial Notes
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the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Co
Dallas, Texas
W. H. Ely & Brother
Houston
Kansas City
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OWL
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Chicago
Janary
TS. Anderson
Houston, Texas
American Brewing Association
Sam H. Pierce
Ted
Boren Ung
Royne
W. N. Mateer
Sandy Jones
Frank A. Woods
Franklin
Texas
Charles
Continental Marble and Granite Co
Canton, Georgia
A. G. Cobb
I. D. Hall
Pinkerton
C. P. Welch
Hearne Mercantile CO
Jones
Dr. King
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