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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
8
The Texas Commercial News argues electricity will transform rural life by lighting farms and barns washing and cooking appliances and power for machinery. It predicts electric road lights universal communications and moving picture houses drawing people back to rural districts as city life grows more appealing.
Distillers are turning crushed prickly pear cactus from Australia into power alcohol. The process aims to produce a combustible alcohol alternative using native cactus resources. Experts note production could diversify fuel sources and reduce reliance on traditional crops.
The Independent Free School District of Llano invites sealed proposals from Llano County banking corporations to serve as depository for school funds from September 1, 1925 to August 31, 1927. Proposals must state the interest rate on daily balances and include a $950 certified check as bid guarantee. bids due August 14, 1925 by 8 p.m. Frank Rothmann, President.
The busy bee spends most of life in the hive and makes only 31.65 trips to forage. She gathers merely eight tenths of a grain of nectar during her lifetime.
An ad promises staple and fancy groceries with seasonal produce and service. A separate line cites hired farmhands refusing to plow without twelve-horse hitches and twenty-horse teams pulling fourteen-inch bottoms. A Curio on Cortes notes a officer obtaining sulfur from a volcano crater.
Runge and Runge of Mason Texas advertise real estate loans at 7 percent interest with quick service.
A man recounts how his wife’s throwback wedding dress and 1893 Chicago World’s Fair attire cured his anti-feminine dress opinions. The party reveal prompts him to admit she looked stylish and declares himself off the old style.
Of 28000 Christian missionaries abroad, 19000 are American. American annual contributions total 40 million dollars, part of a global 45 million raised for missionary work.
Entomologist R R Rupert reports cotton leafworm outbreaks easing with dry heat but warns of spread after showers. He urges dusting with arsenicals or calcium arsenate, outlines rates and lime use, cautions against certain sprays, and notes boll rot due to disease. advises contacting Dr Taubenhaus for plant disease issues.
Classified note offers a baby sulky for sale in fine condition with a prompt sale incentive. Contact Mrs. W. H. Wallace for details and to arrange purchase.
Classified note seeks a fancy or plain sewing helper for quick service. Contact Mrs. M. A. Alexander at J. H. Alexander's residence. Includes a 60-41 reference and a note about pioneer on page 325.
Texas communities plan water works upgrades, dam and reservoir contracts, road pours, and school additions. Projects include a $40,000 water bond in Floresville, a $1.3 million Olmos dam in Alamo Heights, Main Street paving in Panhandle, and a $2,000,000 Dallas school bond.
A county paper argues that a town survives only through unified commercial effort. It warns against factionalism and internecine warfare among merchants, urging cooperative action to build roads, attract trade, and strengthen the local economy for long term vitality.
An old advertisement touts camphor hydrastis and witch hazel in Lovepilk eye wash that supposedly soothes weak, sore, or strained eyes. It offers a free Alea niin eye cup and lists A. Ho Bruhl as the druggist selling the product.
The report lists plans for Puallus Jimeus Treights Congregational Church to build a 23600 dollar structure Weatherford road repairs Winchester Pine Oak Creek bridge works costing about 124000 dollars and a Galveston sale of 76000 dollars in hard lining incinerator project Priory sewer line upgrades underway with 300000 pounds produced in Grovumiasbers area and planned sewer improvements within a week
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