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Newspaper
Hill View Times
Location
Kerrville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
2
The Hill View Times notes it is published every Thursday and offers a subscription rate of 1 dollar per year in advance. It also records its second class matter status with a Kerrville Texas post office filing dated January 19 1926 under the 1879 act.
The piece argues that the Saturday Democratic Primary in Texas delivered a landslide for Moody, serving as a merited rebuke to a dual-government system. It references Fergusonism, alleged misrepresentation, and the impact on Texas bond issues while hoping for renewed justice, peace, and integrity in state affairs.
In 1924 James E. Ferguson urged Texans to elect his wife to governor to erase the impeachment stigma. He kept silent on the $156,000 figure from his trial and held to his earlier positions without pledges of reform.
The piece praises Dan Moody as Governor-elect riding a reform wave after Ferguson. It highlights his clean record, strong support from law and justice groups, and wealth of backing. It concludes the key test is Moody’s own handling of the opportunity over a two-year term.
The piece argues the primary system breeds graft and long costly campaigns, favoring delegates and dark horses, with states like Pennsylvania and Illinois cited. It asks if a substitute or amended law can curb 90 day campaigns, suggesting reform to improve voter influence without reverting to the old convention method.
Texas officials demanded removals from two biology books used by pupils. The Macmillan Healthful Living edition changed phrases about evolution and development, while Henry Holt Biology for Beginners excised entire chapters and paragraphs on evolution and the man’s ascent.
An Acorn column recalls a Native American practice of tobacco trees where travelers shared scarce tobacco and repaid later, contrasting it with white settlers who kept items stolen and left unlocked homes unprotected. The piece concludes that changing behavior signals civilization.
Editorial urges eradicating dangerous snakes and pests while noting limited state action. It condemns lax efforts against rattlers and copperheads and cites 1925 snake deaths totaling 25 as a reason for stronger control.
The article notes summer reports of child deaths and numerous snake bites, urging Texas to permit no snakes to live. It advocates organized drives to locate hibernation caves and destroy snakes, repeating the effort each season to reduce this menace.
The Burr Oak Michigan Acorn quotes a reader’s reflection on words. It lists several defining terms such as God Soul Time Now Sin Hypocrisy Truth Right Love Home Mother and contrasts their qualities.
The piece notes the Prince of Wales influences fashion from dress to eating habits and questions whether food producers should watch his diet as public taste shifts toward lighter consumption. It mentions Americans eat less per person now than a decade ago and that vegetables may be favored more than meat.
Victoria B C July 21 J Wateroold a Swiss scientist on an expedition in a Philippine district believes he has found what is normally called the missing link in human evolution. The report notes his belief and ongoing observations from the remote area.
A photographer claims to have photographed a tribe of about 200 missing links during a seven day stay. Tribespeople refused to pose, but he captured candid snapshots. One image shows a woman with what appears to be a tail or spinal extension, described as a comic college paper style joke.
An OCR fragment lists varied ad slogans from brands like Onyx Hosiery Otis Elevators Klaxon Ford Fatima Ivory Soap Listerine Palmolive RE V D Cunard with taglines about quality value longevity and ownership across products and services.
For Sale Baby carriage slightly used going out of business. Ostend rabbits available. Coffins offered with warning none will try another. Wanted Furnished room for single gentleman ventilated. Wanted Girl to cook roast or broil and stew well. Wanted Young man to care for mules of Christian disposition. Wanted Boy to open oysters fifteen years old. For Sale Bull dog eats anything and loves children. Personal Edward Jones opens a shoe store on Front street with fitness guarantee.
Seventy thousand dollars a year is spent on advertising the city of St Louis. Half is paid by local business men through the Chamber of Commerce, while the other half comes from city hall coffers.
A collage of jokes and quips from Punch style humor features a farmer refusing an encyclopedia for his children, a boastful claim about a girl who drinks bets and smokes, a minister predicting a funeral, a child asking for the old painting after a new one is done, and a traffic expert foreseeing cars driving people underground when struck.
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