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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
3
H. W. Bolton and G. H. Hagan operate a real estate loans and fire insurance office with abstracting services, offering property transactions and risk coverage. Local clientele can access title work, mortgage financing, and policy options through the firm.
Letter-style note discusses sending a check and a request to include a clear statement with place and date. Mentions keeping books straight and reading correctly to ensure happiness for Bob and the writer. Contains informal phrases and incomplete details.
Ottawa announces prohibition of importation and manufacture of intoxicating liquors with limited exceptions for medical sacramental and industrial use. The ban extends through the war and one year after peace, targeting beverages over 2 1 2 percent alcohol and tying enforcement to a government mandate for wartime efficiency. Liquor purchased before Dec 24 may be shipped into Canada by Jan 31, 1918.
The Marble Falls Messenger notes rain records show 25 inches and lists eleven Democratic gubernatorial candidates for 1918. Names include Neff, Hobby, Terrell, Garrett, Looney, Hogg, Mayfield, Morris, Warren, Ferguson, and others, with one more expected to reach twelve.
Goldthwaite resident Mrs. D. G. Womack reports backache relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She describes swelling and vision floaters diminishing, noting lasting kidney regulation. Price 60 cents at dealers. Wester-Milburn Co. Manufacturers, Buffalo, New York.
R W Burleson cashier of City National Bank returned home from a sanitarium where he was operated on for appendicitis two weeks earlier. He is recovering well and plans to be out soon after the holidays. John Estes visited his children for Christmas after months at aviation fields near Ft Worth and Dallas. Prof W E Cantwell and wife of Oakdale Burnet county visited his parents at Bend this week while Cantwell filed his war board questionnaire.
The sheriff of San Saba County issues a sale notice under a December 4 1917 court order to satisfy a judgment of W H Gibbons and May Ward Holman against J O King et al. The 90 acre estate known as the J O King place near Fisher Miller survey is to be sold at public auction on a February 1918 court day, between 10 am and 4 pm, at the San Saba County courthouse. The notice runs in the San Saba News for three consecutive weeks.
A. Gose came home from Santa Rita where he ran a large laundry for two months. He plans to spend the holidays with his family. W. J. Moore returned from a weeks long trip in Arkansas and Mississippi and Kansas City. He is interested in several hundred cattle wintered for fattening in Mississippi Valley fields.
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