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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1922
Page
6
The piece counsels simple hospitality and honest conversation at home. It urges entertaining without excess, working cheerfully, and letting guests choose what pleases them, while keeping love and tolerance as guiding principles during a visit.
The note promotes a four to six week cotton classing program at Tyler Commercial College in Tyler Texas. It boasts a large sample room with glass wall, emphasizes practical training in grading and marketing cotton, and urges enrollment before the coming cotton season with a $53 summer course fee and invitation to request a free catalogue.
Classified ad rates listed for Pecos Enterprise ranging from forty cents per inch to ten cents per line for readers seeking to fill needs with ads.
An offer promotes a year's reading from the Pecos oil field via the Enterprise for a $2 subscription. The pitch suggests sending the package to a friend as a gift or shareable item.
The article lauds Washington State's administrative code cutting 474 employees and saving over a million dollars annually by consolidating bureaus into ten departments. It argues Texas and Arizona should adopt similar reforms despite political opposition and notes wasted spending under the old system.
A publisher seeks reader input to craft the ideal paper but cancels the venture, then closes shop to become a saxophone wholesaler. The piece also surveys Harold P Page's letter praising Oberammergau Passion Play participants and vividly describes a daylong Passion Play in Oberammergau with scenes of the Last Supper and Christ’s crucifixion.
Robert Fisher warns that stocking assets without considering personnel mental ability and fitness can doom a venture. A new showcase may draw buyers, but a dumbbell clerk could turn the investment into a loss. For selling chickens and eggs for cash, contact J. W. Moore in Pecs, Texas.
A Fort Worth Star-Telegram report from July 30 cites R. N. Sims showing 30,499 U S banks on March 10 1922 with 22 302 State banks and 8 197 national banks. State banks held higher capital 3 7B vs 2 834B and deposits 23 51B vs 15 39B, with total resources 28 808B compared to 19 85B for national banks.
A Pecos Texas advertisement from June 10 1922 notes that on August 1 1919 a check for ten dollars fifty cents drawn by J W B Williams was paid. The letter is signed by G C Parker assistant cashier and refers to Saragosa Texas addressed to Mr Valentine Zuber.
About 12 000 acres offered to farmers who will move to the land, clear and improve it. Soil is black loam with shallow water. First payment December 1923, balance in 10 annual installments. Price 25 to 40 dollars per acre. Earnest money five percent. For booklet write H M Madison Gen F and I Agt SA and AP Ry Santonio Texas or Geo Lupton GA.
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