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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1899
Page
2
A reader asks Bob about hair styling and securing a gown made of airy nothings. The note seeks guidance on pattern sharing and towels in hair, ending with a shopper line about Brooklyne Lite coffee at Alliance Store.
The Ottumwa ensemble opened Dallas Lyceum season 1898 1900 at Turner Hall Weesday night. A large audience applauded the unriveled musical organization featuring Weeks Brock Peteraca Tots Kleinman. The group plans another appearance Tuesday night October 24 with tickets nearly sold at local stores.
The Dallas Fair runs Sept 28 to Oct 22 with special central rates. Round trip $3.30 from Sept 26 to Oct 22, $2.50 from Sept 27 to Oct 22, and weekend rates $1.00 on Saturdays and Sunday mornings with Sunday night limit. A black pig (three months) is lost. notify F. Hernandez.
Hay for sale eight sorghum hay finest straw baled any quantity six dollars per ton. Bonner and Wortham Lee Lane the shoe man. Claude Exell returned that night from Fort Crook Nebraska. Gays all the Mexia boys are doing well and seem satisfied with their soldier life. Tom Davis and Chas Lofland are sergeants, while Marcus McDonald and Norflet Payne each has good chance for an
A critical reader lampoons politicians courting common folk while noting the Dallas supper event. He contrasts the bragging multitide of elected leaders with the backrow audience, calling out disparities between those inside the hall and the "sons of toil" outside. The piece ends with a classified line: WANTED AT ONNCE Customers for the Mexia Steam Laundry.
A church directory lists Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and Episcopal congregations with pastors and Sunday activities. Cloudcroft Nova Mexico is described as a high altitude railroad terminus with scenic views, climate praised, and Fort Stanton cited as a Marine sanitarium site. readers are urged to request travel and schedule details from T and P Ry Co. in Dallas.
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