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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
6
A writer urges focus on the home as foundation amid rising divorce and social upheaval. He condemns frivolous amusements and costly attractions, calls for stricter marriage norms, and urges parental responsibility to shield society from perceived moral decline.
The writer looks back at 1920s fashion trends from hoop skirts to Princess gowns. He notes changing styles from tight skirts that hindered walking to long trains and bewitching gowns. The piece reflects on the fashion cycle where styles continually improve and attract attention.
Harold McCormick, son of Cyrus McCormick, marries Ganna Walska after spending millions from farm machinery fortunes. The union follows a high-profile divorce from Edith Rockefeller McCormick and aims to elevate Walska to the world’s greatest opera singer.
By L F McKay the South forms eight states into the American Cotton Growers Exchange while Oklahoma Texas Arizona Arkansas Georgia and Alabama already market under it Mississippi Tennessee and Louisiana plan groups. The plan promises steady income and modernized marketing benefiting bankers merchants exporters spinners and farmers, with farm women and children gaining improved homes schools and social life. The movement aims to end field slavery for women and children and lift living standards across the region.
A narrated scene shows a farming family embracing motor transport while retaining a single decrepit horse kept in a dilapidated shed. Doc Blakely teases about hay usage and Uncle Alec remarks on shopping at a department store, noting a collar purchase instead of livestock.
A terse appeal invites readers to place a 25 cent want ad to earn cash. The brief note suggests others have used the format successfully and questions why the reader should not try it.
Senator Sorghum contemplates reconciling with voters he defeated in his party after the primaries. He acknowledges victory while questioning if there is sufficient time before the general election to win back those supporters.
Local ad offers chickens and eggs for sale to L W Moore in Pecos Texas. Includes a contact line and price details obscured by OCR.
Rates listed for advertisements include 40 cents per inch or 10 cents per line for readers.
Advertisement touts the Sunday edition of the El Paso Herald with comics in color, Herald Junior, magazine features, and 24 pages of news, urging ranchers and Pecos Valley households to subscribe for 2.50 annually as the southwest’s best value.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as removing the cause with a signature claim by E. W. Grove on a tuxedo item. The fragment hints at a branding style typical of vintage patent medicine promotions.
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