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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
5
Local exchange notes a tourist asking about a tall structure in a field. A native explains the object is a damaged well cover turned by a summer cyclone, highlighting frequent Texas cyclones and misidentification.
Miss Poe offers trimmed hats at half price this week. Limited stock, hurry to pick styles before the sale ends.
A carefully compiled list of oil producing states followed by counties within those states. Oklahoma lists numerous counties including Nowata and Osage. California cites Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. Texas groups fields into seven regions with multiple counties. Louisiana with North and South divisions. Kansas, Wyoming, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Montana, Indiana, New York, Colorado, Tennessee are enumerated with respective counties. The list reflects 1922 data, noting not every county may produce oil commercially.
The Geological Survey report Continuity of some oil bearing sands of Colorado and Wyoming shows how lower Cretaceous sandstone beds in Colorado and Wyoming are continuous across regions. It links names like Dakota and Muddy sand to common stratigraphic beds aiding oil prospecting and drilling decisions.
Walter Slover and family depart for Greybull to reside through the summer, with plans to return if cold weather drives them back. Slover, long a Pecos resident except for eight months in Toyah, will manage a garage in Greybull. Friends in Reeves County extend best wishes for their success.
Abilene Texas May 21 The marking of the Bankhead National Highway across the state reaches Abilene the halfway point on the 891 mile road from Texarkana to El Paso State Highway No 1 viewed as a vital all year route from Washington to San Diego Markers pace half mile intervals from Texarkana to Abilene with completion expected toward El Paso in a month Dallas News
Headquarters advertises Exide Batteries and Service with a sale at Slack's Battery Station. Includes phone reference 7 and an identifying code 84-tf. Advertisement notes customers should act during the sale.
Mr Wayne Patton Hicks and Mrs Zetha Cheek were married in the Methodist parsonage at 3 30 in the afternoon with Rev L L Thurston officiating They came from Fort Stockton Tuesday and the Enterprise offers congratulations and best wishes for their married life.
A fragmentary dialogue jokes about willpower and a husband letting his wife drive, ending with an ad pitch promising a new hat at half the former price from Miss Lillie Poe. The text mixes aphorism with a sales tease and social cue.
A fragment from a poem noting a shoe-maker's daughter turning a heel against the speaker. The playful lines compare stepping from beverage to beverage and weaving a new heel from the encounter.
Miss Nellie Jay Turner of California pledged to wed Lieut. J A Mac if he succeeds in his non stop air flight from New York to California. She is on her wedding day.
Quick cough relief from Hayes Healing Honey paired with Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat. The carton includes both remedies for cold and croup symptoms and is available at local druggists. The salve works by penetrating the skin to ease coughing.
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