Hamer Co Sale and Local Notices Stir Town
A flurry of ads and notices from Junction Tailor Shop and ALEX J. HAMER CO advertise sales on stock and clothing with drastic reductions. Local touches include visits by Mrs Adam and Elizabeth, school plans with Miss Lela teaching at Eight Mile, and church social and class room fund-raiser notices. Also mentions cattle and hogs transport to San Antonio and a tourism rights piece about property theft risk.
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Alex J. Hamer CO
Tourist Thieves In Texas Meet Growing Backlash
Complaints rise that auto tourists commit petty thefts and disrupt local towns. Officials warn that lack of restraint by visitors could sour Texas tourism and draw harsher measures.
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Texas
Banker Says Bankers Are Too Lenient With Loans
A Western banker at a bankers convention joked that bankers are too lax in lending, quipping through his English barrier that "the trouble with us bankers iss that vee are too tum laxative."
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Capper
History Fades as Stone Weathered by Time
A reflective, epigraphic meditation on endurance and decline as monuments crumble into dust. The piece muses on inscriptions eroding, statues toppled, and the ephemeral life of grand architectural works.
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Washington Irving
Liking Nature in Later Days Quote by W H Davies
A reflective passage from W H Davies in Later Days exploring an enduring appreciation for nature. It contrasts lush leafy trees with spindly twigs used by birds, expressing a consistent, simple affection for the natural world.
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W. H. Davies
No Peddlers In Australia Curate In Sydney Fails At Door
A Sydney Bulletin report recalls a house visit by a zealous curate on Alexandria rounds. A six or eight year old child answered the door and said Mother is suited with a clergyman, then shut the door.
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Australia
Alexandria
Sydney
Bulletin
Quips on Fashion, Law, and Rural Life Collide in Quick Texts
A playful assemblage of wry aphorisms and social observations. Jokes about bobbed hair and beauty trends mix with notes on law enforcement, foreign affairs, and farm life, suggesting shifts in fashion, safety, and rural economics. The collage hints at changing times and practical twists in daily concerns.
Lawyers Visit England for Enjoyable Trip Pending Technicalities
Market statistics show eight million fewer dogs in the country. A highway drive won’t prove it. If Germany changes its methods, a single cashier could handle all money for reparations payments.
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England
Germany
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Junction
Alex J. Hamer
Adam
Murr
Elizabeth
J. A. Browning
Wilson’ Bros
Junction Tailor Shop
Hamer Company
W. H. Sheppard
Bud Keese
Medina
Bandera County
Keese
Lela
Eight Mile
The
Baptist Church
W. S. Pierce
Alex Hamerco
San Antonio
J. S. Ponton
Bercon Bible Class
Methodist S
Kansas
Friend Haskett
Bissett
Seal Brand
Cos
Wea
Fee
Ted
Butt & Garrett, Inc
Grandpa
Bill
Hoosier
W.A. Fawcett
Kerrville, Texas
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