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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1939
Page
2
The article discusses using refined cottonseed oil as a preservative for meat, urging growers to control their own supplies. It cites Lubbock Experiment Station guidance for West Texas, detailing curing times for hams and bacons, rinsing, soaking, drying, and smoking steps, and recommends storing the finished product in containers with oil for preservation.
The article explains storing meat in cottonseed oil to prevent drying and insect damage. It notes four gallons of oil per hundred pounds of meat, suggests a cool dry vented place, and warns bacon can absorb oil if kept too long while hams stay usable up to three years. It mentions the Lubbock station’s two-year oil use without rancidity and ongoing research to restore oil neutrality.
Texas sportsmen spend about 25 million dollars each year on guns ammunition fishing equipment clothing vehicles fuel hotel lodging meals and other items needed for hunting and fishing trips.
The piece notes the rising deaths from heart disease and links infections in youth to later heart weakness. It urges preventive methods, early diagnosis, quarantine, and proper care to reduce later heart problems, and highlights personal habits, stimulants, overexertion, and overweight as contributing factors.
Sunday School attendance rose on the last Lord's Day as the church reports growth. Members plan a Ladies Bible Class meeting with Mrs. Elam Lewis next week while work on the preacher's home proceeds. A reader recalls an X ray finding showing a half-dollar swallowed years ago remains in Faucher's stomach.
Cleo Clippings notes local sick list and Bear Creek activity as the Bear Creek Study Club collected 62 books and 115 magazines for the Kimble County library. Walter names and events mention a detective writer in San Angelo covering the Kennedy murder and local social visits including a 72th birthday with pink candles.
The London School News outlines mid term exams and school activities. Mr Homann meets Four H Club. basketball practice for boys and volleyball for girls continues. The high school plans a Community Hall play “Always In Trouble” to help football debt. juniors and seventh grade host successful parties. the library remains busy with reference and cultural books.
Citizens share routine happenings from Monday to Tuesday including Charley’s trip to C Camp, visits among Mrs. Taylors and Ills of Mrs. Hopkins and Arch Lurber. Marlin Tobais returns to Roosevelt from Belton as Copperas Ridge final cement work advances. Velma Nilson’s Texas birdlife noted alongside a quip about a monkey wrench and a jail escape in Liverpool.
A fragment shows accounting lines with TOTAL LIABILITIES listed as $800,506.59 and adjacent entries for TOTAL DEPOSITS and Other liabilities. The snippet appears to be part of a bank or financial balance sheet notation regarding liabilities and deposits.
Charley Shaffer hosts farewell dance at his home Saturday night with Gardner as sponsor after Dorann Camp’s return to Temple from visiting her parents Mr and Mrs O Wilburn Gardner.
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