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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1926
Page
7
Pecos Mercantile Co Grocery Dept notes half hour deliveries at 8:30 9:30 10:30 11:30 2:30 3:30 4:30 and 5:30 with rush orders given special attention all hours. Maye's Cash Grocery also appears in the text.
A sheriff in Reeves County Texas announces a public sale of three tracts of land totaling 1380 acres in Reeves County. The sale arises from a Ward County District Court order in favor of Durer Alston against Toyah Texas Oil Gas and Land Company for 487 dollars plus costs, with eight percent interest from June 1 1926. The auction is set for October 5 1926 at the Reeves County courthouse between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. to the highest bidder. Publication will occur weekly for three weeks in Pecos Enterprise and Gusher.
Publication summons for Ralph Matthews in Reeves County District Court Pecos Texas. Plaintiff Juanita Matthews sues for divorce alleging cruel treatment. Citation commands sheriff to publish weekly for four weeks before November 22 1926 and deliver return. Pecos Pecos Mercantile ad follows.
Community Garage announces jam-up service for hydraulic brakes using Lockheed hydraulic brake finid. Experienced technicians invite customers to benefit from proven braking expertise and quick repairs.
Satirical piece on poverty and improvised living with a wolf metaphor, detailing a desperate, humorous sketch of a family’s frugal life and misadventures. Includes a brief train timetable and notices from Pecos, Texas, with prices and schedules.
A sermon urging readers to value continuous advertisers who present quality, fair prices, and factual ads. It stresses safety in shopping, the advantage of buying from those who advertise, and the time saved by reading ads before leaving home.
A housewife and a butcher trade sharp words over meat costs with one remark about paying 80 cents a pound and another countering that paying twenty-five cents would be worse. The exchange highlights consumer tension in grocery pricing.
We pay the highest prices for your chickens. Call and let us pick them up. Pecos Mercantile Co., Grocery Department. 38
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