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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
2
The San Saba County official organ announces weekly publication from San Saba Texas. W A Smith J BE Hayden and V B Breazeale serve as editor proprietor and foreman machinist. Advertising representative ICAN PRiESS ASSOCIATION.
A collage of brief, dated notes and comments. It touches on church speech, river lore, a shirt-tail parade after a Longhorns game, and humorous vignettes from Barber County. It moves through bee caves, McAllen editors meeting, Ranger talk in Eastland, and a Christmas homecoming poem with family scenes.
The column notes sympathy skewed toward abusive husbands, urges stronger measures against wife beating, and imagines a future with safer fire storage. It cites Denmark shipping butter to the United States, jokes about rotten butter, and jokes about American husbands for France. It reports oddities from a missing overcoat to a misconnected telephone death and mocks European and Chinese figures with satirical lines.
A collage of 1910s style classified ad lines includes poultry product pitches, farm equipment for sale, pure giant bronze turkeys with prices, and a posted lands trespass notice. Multiple names and contact paths appear alongside dates and locations in San Saba.
A box supper and auction cake gate will be held at Pecan Grove schoolhouse on Saturday night December 18 to raise funds for a community benefit. Everyone is invited and welcome.
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