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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
8
A fragment from Marcus Aurelius on time and life’s fleeting events. The river of time carries each sighting moment away, making way for the next, as the ancient thinker notes in a reflective adage.
The writer laments the Jazz age and its reflection of public mood, notes fashion and safety fears from bobbed hair to crime, critiques politics and tax policy, questions wartime maneuvers at Fort Sill, and half-jokingly praises poultry ventures and domestic habits shaping Texas life. It closes with a commentary on laziness and marital strain.
A Metropolitan Life Insurance campaign distributes one and a half million fly swatters to support a health drive against disease carrying flies. The wide campaign urges immediate, thorough swatting to curb germs and protect milk and food.
San Saba County shows diverse assets from rich pecan markets to marble quarrying and cedar shipments. The county sits along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe line with towns like San Saba and Richland Springs boasting banks, schools tied to Texas universities, and growing tourism plus a hoped dam for irrigation. Prospects include potential oil in geology studies and a new road system under Chamber of Commerce efforts.
Mrs Alf Williamson and daughter of Eagle Pass returned last week after a pleasant visit to their father Dr. Jos Greer. Mrs Williamson traveled via San Marcos with her sisters Miss Lenora and Miss Ora Anna, who resumed studies at South Texas Teachers College for the summer normal program.
Advertisement for a daily stage line from San Saba to Brownwood via Goldthwaite with connections to Stephenville Fort Worth Bus line. Also fruit berries advertised at Smith Farm three miles southeast of Locker with pruning and clean land. Brier berries priced 25c per gallon, 40c picked. picking begins Monday May 26 and runs Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. rain postpones. Signed Henrietta Smith.
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