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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
4
A Free Picture Show by manager J. W. May draws crowds as city council blocks a wall permit. The Enterprise notes mixed public praise and questions town impact. The piece also lampoons readers who gripe at editors and argues the costly realities of running a newspaper and the value of multiple papers for residents.
A veteran Southern editor recalls the paradox of paying for news. He reflects on editors taking abuse yet needing readers, and recounts a plainspoken farmer who distrusted editorials but kept the paper for current news and shared it with others to spite rivals.
A Barstow reader signs a May 20 letter urging exposure of oil frauds and demanding open battle with conspirators. The Enterprise pledges support but insists the writer reveal identity and meet in the open to inform the public about Trans-Pecos oil operators and local frauds.
The Honey Grove Citizen notes how a printer’s stationery has aided various fortunes from marriages to mischief. It cites a thousand statements printed for a local firm helping collect accounts, a man who married after buying note paper, a forged check leading to prison, a death from paper theft for cigarette making, and a young woman using paper to find a beau. It warns that few such packs remain.
The Alpine Avalanche suggests considering Lieut. Gov. T. W. Davidson for a role with Governor Pat. The editorial notes Davidson would make readers think beyond geographic lines in Texas.
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