FAIRVIEW District News and Advertisements
Fairview notes list for sale of a 610 acre ranch near San Saba and a local real estate ad. The column also reports social visits by Bascom Johnson and family and Graves Burke with Mrs. Taylor, plus readers’ notices about local tonics, Hereford cattle breeders, and recent regional travel and camping along the San Saba River. A mention of boll weevil damage from a big rain affects cotton interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Blankenship
J.T. Taylor and
Clyde
Aubry
The Years and the Sleepless Man
Poet John Drinkwater recalls aging through witty rhymes from youth at twenty to elder years at eighty. The verse humorously maps stages of life and time, ending with reflections on treacherous loves and the fading fear of youth as age encroaches.
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John Drinkwater
London Sphere
Garden Above Ground on New York Hotel Roof
A New York hotel under construction plans a 14th floor setback converted into a full length roof garden. The 260 foot high lawn will run from Fifty First to Fifty Second Streets with grass flowers and shrubs. An artistic trellis will border the Park Avenue side creating a safe elevated front yard for residents.
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New York
New York City
Park Avenue
Longing for Departed Days In Deathless Nostalgia
A tongue in cheek meditation on aging and memory from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The speaker imagines renegotiating life with friends and service providers as time wears on, satirically asking for indulgence while mockingly awaiting favors from landlord, tailor, and butcher.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Brazil's aviation boom draws foreign manufacturers
Enthusiasm for aviation sweeps Brazil as major factories from France, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States send representatives. They study the market, seek government concessions, and bring machines while daily flights begin. A British company plans aerial freight and passenger routes linking Brazil's chief cities.
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Brazil
France
Great Britain
Italy
United States
Untitled Dialect Snippet From Birmingham Acotergtd
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a stenographer described as a new addition to a force. The quoted exchange questions spelling and punctuation, hinting at biases and tension in a Birmingham publication.
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Mr. Giddian
Birmingham
Brows the Stayer’s Rise and Loyalty Cited
Two wealthy men discuss Brows a trusted employee as an elderly passerby. One notes Brows works for him and is honest looking. The other asks about staying power and confirms Brows began at the bottom in 1876 and has remained there since.
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Boston Transcript
Japan to Grow Wool For Local Sheep Industry
Japan experiments to find a satisfactory sheep breed to supply wool locally. After establishing a few head per farm, farmers will be trained in sheep raising. Officials hope the new industry will create a ready market for mutton and tanning leather. The Difficult Start notes a playful exchange about starting a story with editor approval before writing.
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Japan
Asking the Impossible in an Odd Parley
A humorous exchange about Mrs Paraway who declines a flu shot after a joke about going into an alliance. The dialogue then jokes about a profiteer joining an amateur orchestra and suggests the instrument should be the loot.
Why People Buy Rat Snap in Preference to Rat Poison
A Lampasas Leader summary notes a San Saba county fair with 7000 attendees praised as the best in the state for agriculture poultry and exhibits. Miss Mabel Wilson plans to teach in Wichita Falls schools this winter after returning from Dallas. Rat Snap promotes five claims including killing rats and mice with no odor and being made in cakes. available in 35c 65c and 1.25 packages from The Corner Drug Store and Qualls Hardware Company.
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Gordon Mackey
San Saba
Lampasas
Mabel Wilson
Dallas
Mabel
Wichita Falls
Qualls Hardware Company
John Tarleton Agricultural College Prospectus
John Tarleton Agricultural College offers a coeducational junior college program with practical courses in agriculture home economics arts and sciences. It reports 1919-20 enrollment 634, extensive facilities including a $150000 agricultural building and a 500 acre farm, and claims state junior college championships in football baseball and basketball.
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Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
The
State University
American Party issues ticket at Fort Worth convention
The American Party's Fort Worth session announced a full slate with Ferguson for President McGregor for Governor Green for Lieutenant Governor De Shields for Attorney General Crozd for State Treasurer Short for Associate Justice Smith for Railroad Commissioner Alsop for Superintendent Riley for Land Commissioner Blakesley for Comptroller and numerous electors. The convention adopted a plank endorsing the closed shop policy and extending it to farming, with former Governor Ferguson voicing support in the morning session.
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American Party
Fort Worth
James J. Ferguson
Bell County
T. H. McGregor
Austin
J. W. Green
Montgomery County
B. D. de Shields
Jacksonville
Joseph A. Crozd
Hill County
Hugh B. Short
Center
Herbert A. Smith
Fischer Alsop
W. B. Riley
Hardeman County
First Baptist Church Auditorium
James E. Ferguson
Call for Closed Shop in Farming and Industry
The speaker urges extending the closed shop principle beyond industrial workers to farmers. It argues that farmers should get higher prices for crops and laborers deserve better wages, insisting mutual protection for both groups.
Rat that mimics kangaroo bark spans Oakdwell Bastrop Texas
Austin report details a rat seen in Oakdwell and Bastrop Counties resembling a kangaroo with a long tail and barking like a prairie dog. M. M. Mills of Red Rock says there are three species, one with long front legs, one with balanced legs, and a normal-tailed variant. He notes rats damage crops fruit and chickens and mentions cotton-tail rabbits dying in his area.
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Austin
Texas
Oakdwell
Bastrop
M. M. Mills
Red Rock
State Department of Health
Nora Walker Returns From Market With Fall Millinery
Miss Nora Walker returned Sunday from the market where she selected her stock of fall millinery.
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Nora Walker
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W. G. Low & Sons
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Yrma Yarborough
W. G. Lindsey
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Maples
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