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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Walter Buckner and son Bud of San Marcos visited over the weekend with Mrs Buckners family the Ross Beasleys George Hamiltons and John Blackburns for a family reunion They also met their daughter and son in law Collom F Milburn of Odessa and Dr and Mrs Carroll B Dixon of San Antonio
Wash and grease services offered with general auto repair work. Let us paint your car and perform body and fender work. Dodge and Plymouth parts and service advertised. Phone 81 listed for contact.
Local classified items announce real estate sales including a modern five room house with central heating and contact numbers. Family notices report visits, travels, and social calls. Floral mattress remaking specials and upholstery offers from Brady Mattress and Upholstery Co are listed with prices.
A column recounts Congress spending 30000 dollars to buy camels for army experiments in 1850s America. Officers sourced 35 camels from Egypt landed at Indianola Texas in 1856 and moved to New Mexico. a 1857 camel train headed to California via the desert. The venture failed to transform transport but remains a vivid sample of trial and error in nation building.
A collage of small ads and notices includes a salesman wanted for a large feed company in Kimble County, land for sale on the South Llano River in Junction, sewing work, Decca records at Murr Electric, sympathy thanks for a bereavement, a music class start date, a family moving to Iraan, local hospital news, vacationers, and several sale notices. Also listed are milk goats for sale or trade, insurance endorsements, and a bid for rock and scrap lumber from the Elementary School Building project with bid-opening and removal terms.
The page lists Moon Drug Store items including box paper, nylon brushes, and toilet articles with thermos bottles and water jugs. It notes Elgin watches, community plate, Alvin silverware, a radio electrician, and Hext Iron Works branding chutes. Miss Marguerite Strube travels for Labor Day but returns due to an uncle’s death. The Junction Kindergarten opens Sept 12 with Mrs Carpenter and Mrs Hodges teaching. Mil ton Bierschwabe graduates from Texas A&M with a BS in Chemical Engineering.
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