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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1923
Page
2
A note from Pecos Texas directs all radio related communications to The Radio Editor at the Pecos Enterprise for handling and publication. The instruction specifies the newspaper and city as the proper contact point for inquiries and submissions.
WBAP Fort Worth Star Telegram lists daily and weekend on air times for market quotes weather and livestock reports. It covers cotton grain cattle markets sports scores Texas League results and Sunday church services with notes on program suspensions.
A Buena Vista Ranch letter from Yucca Arizona presents a farm and cattlemen prayer asking for rain relief and mercy for starving dogies. The speaker laments drought losses and blames profiteers while pleading for renewed pasture, jobs, and hope through divine aid. The plea mentions sons in France and hardship from dry seasons and freight costs.
The government plans to abandon its indifferent stance on telephone subscribers and run the Post Office's telephone business like a private firm. It will canvass households door to door, appoint persuasive young callers to explain benefits to nonphone households and sell telephones as a business effort.
A fragmentary note features a burglar in a cellar and a cryptic question about a coal bite. The quirky line hints at a humorous, puzzle-like local column piece with coy wordplay and no clear action or outcome.
In the Tex as Christian Advocate Bishop Warren A. Candler argues that Darwin's theory is flawed and overblown. He cites scientists who reject descent of man and warns against fatalism from evolutionary thought. He urges preaching Jesus Christ over unsolved origin questions and stresses human freedom in Christ.
A columnist notes AT&T’s plan to raise capital to one billion dollars and places the milestone in the context of a growing, young telephone industry. The piece reflects on how rapidly communications have transformed American life and public perception.
The National Association of Credit Men reports that among 16 000 mercantile failures in 1921, 90 percent did not advertise. Only one in ten failures were advertisers, while big, successful merchants were active advertisers. The note stresses early adoption of advertising principles to achieve a visionary goal, per the Uvalde Leader.
A local office reports preparation of ladies calling cards with precise typography and neat printing. The note highlights attention to presentation and professional quality in card production.
A Sunday Express survey lists the wealthiest men led by Henry Ford with about 500 million dollars. John D. Rockefeller follows at 450 million, with Andrew Mellon and several European magnates each at 100 million.
B J Mullaney of the People's Gas Light and Coke Company argues at the Atlantic City advertising convention that utilities offer prime advertising potential across four types: service, merchandise, financial, and institutional. He urges treating advertising as a major operating cost tied to service expansion and societal benefit.
An advertisement for Tyler Commercial College Tyler Texas promotes a business curriculum including bookkeeping cotton classing telegraphy business administration finance radio civil service and more. It urges action to gain a salary and advancement and invites readers to mail for a free catalogue. The Pecos Enterprise is cited as the publication.
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