Wanted a Ranch Hand Echoes in a Rancher's Ad
An old Fort McKavett Texas item recounts O W Cardwell’s 1925 ranch job ad seeking a driven worker. A long wry reply from prospective applicant Lovely Lazy T. Mope introduces a family with seven children and a horseback work ethic, asking for education funding and a paid carriage to school for the kids. The exchange blends humor and frontier grit with references to asthma and backbone.
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Fort McKavett
Tex
Cardwell
Junction Eagle
South Texas
T. Mope
Oranges in Winter Dishes Shine with Flavor and Color
A 1925 kitchen note extols winter citrus for price and abundance. It offers Orange Mint Cup and Orange Meringues as light desserts, and an Orange Ice Cream recipe, detailing how to make a mint garnish, citrus sirups, and servings with sponge cake and sherbet cups.
Slim Jedson Loses Job Amid Vacant Lot Gas Station Boom
Slim Jedson, long known for mowing weeds off city vacant lots, is out of work this year as all those lots become occupied by gas filling stations.
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Slim Jedson
Missionary Society Meet Set in San Marcos
The West Texas Conference Woman's Missionary Society will hold its annual gathering in San Marcos from April 14 to 17. Mrs J Virgil Davis will represent the Junction Missionary Society at the meeting.
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Woman’s Missionary Society of the
Artist claims to illustrate love stories in art
The exchange centers on a man who says he illustrates love stories while a woman questions whether he means illustrate or demonstrate. The brief dialogue highlights ambiguity in his artistic phrasing and her probing clarification.
State governor signs varied new laws list omitted items
The governor signed numerous bills including tax assessor salaries, water district assessment plans, and new seizure warrants. Other provisions limit water district notes, grant river bed title to cities, require muffler cut outs, restrict banking terms, and extend railroad and rainbow trout rules. County clerks may record old private records for a fee and legal ad rates stay low.
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Railroad Commission
Permanent School Fund
State Board of Educa
Relic Custody Transfer Sparks State Library Debate
A proposal moves to remove historical relics from the State Library and place them under custody of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The action aims to centralize care of artifacts while debating preservation and provenance.
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State Library
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Howell Wright Painter and Justice of the Peace
Howell Wright offers house painting and paperhanging, with wall paper samples and satisfaction guaranteed. He also performs marriages and invites trials on next job, promising durable results.
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Howell Wright
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh and deafness
A historical ad asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine relieves nasal inflammation with an external ointment and an internal tonic that purportedly acts through the blood to restore normal mucous membranes. Sold by druggists for over forty years, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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O. W. Cardwell
Watson Divide
Rags
Eagle Office
Western Newspaper Union
Holland
Mereie
Ed Purdy
W. E. Smith, Inc
San Antonio, Tex
BAYER
H. E. Luehrs
M. D
Dr. Stone
A. L. Barkley
Junction
Jim Moore
Heyman Drug Store
Texas
Secor Sanitarium
Kerrville-on-the-Guadalupe
Hankin’s
Hankins Drug Co
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