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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1922
Page
4
The piece denounces a notorious wood yard and laundry linked to a corrupt pre posterous system and calls for a police clean up. It cites 5000 beggars earning at least 15 dollars daily and suggests courts sentence some to county farm labor to learn honest work.
The editor calls for immediate, united effort to raise money for the Wheat Guarantee Well. They warn delays will stall progress and reiterate it is a straightforward, honest proposition requiring all interested parties to participate now to start the oil well and reap rewards sooner.
About one hundred Methodist ministers from New Mexico and West Texas will meet in Pecos next week and stay several days. The town plans a general cleanup to present a neat appearance as they begin arriving Tuesday.
The Santa Anna News urges Coleman county to join the West Texas movement toward dairy farming with more milk cows purebred stock and alfalfa. It argues cotton income and credit risk make a dairy shift appealing citing local conditions milking butter eggs and pig as you go plans to improve bank deposits and home consumption.
The Charity Organization Society of New York criticizes beggars on Broadway while alleging big city beggars collect over 36 million dollars yearly from pedestrians and visitors. It argues the society should control charitable distribution and end indiscriminate giving.
A Dallas physician condemns corn whisky as a preventive for dengue fever and dismisses moonshine as a cure for ailments. The piece warns that excessive consumption is deadly and compares drinking to self harm, urging sensible men to quit whisky.
The new budget director General Lord faces a mixed report from the 1922 books showing a start deficit of 24,468,703 and a year end surplus of 313,801,651, with the national debt reduced by 1,041,968,844 and a general fund balance of 272,105,512. Analysts caution that many savings result from postponed payments and elastic expenditures remain untested, but the system is seen as potentially more accurate and favorable to the public purse.
The Texas market summary notes strong demand for sweet potatoes and brisk movement of supplies with prices from $1.10 to $1.25 per 50 pound crate and carload and wholesale activity across cantaloupe watermelons onions and peanuts. It covers grains, hay, live stock, cotton and cottonseed with state spot prices and regional quotes across Fort Worth Dallas Houston Galveston and Wichita Falls.
Auto mechanic advertisement offering generator and wiring repairs with guaranteed work or money back. Claims expertise in solving generator and electrical troubles with association to J A Hardy and Son. Short, practical notice for local customers.
Texas and Pacific Railway receiver J L Lancaster orders sixteen new locomotives at about one million dollars for quick delivery. Eight are government type six wheel switch engines and eight are 4 6 2 passenger engines with modern features including booster and super heater. The fleet will serve the Toyah El Paso division while the strike continues. Mrs Jim Camp and daughter Nancy visit sister in Hereford.
Advertises roof hazard warning and soot filled flues with a cold winter forecast. States two workers will clean out and inspect flues. offers affordable prices. Promotes applying to E. L. Collings Insurance Company at 64 f.
Mrs J A McCaslan will teach irregular grade work at the home of Mrs S E Wilson from 9 to 12 am and provide High School tutoring in the afternoon at her home on the north side of the track at the Otto Elder place.
Some of the finest black cotton lands the sun shines on. Also suitable for fruit, feed crops, oranges, dairying, poultry and hog raising. Prices right and terms to suit any good farmer. Request our new booklet. H. M. Madison, Gen. F & P Agt. San Antonio Texas. Summer excursions till September 30. Write Geo. F. Lupton about them.
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