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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
6
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An humorous San Saba county item recounts Rafe Thornton’s 48 year odyssey from San Saba to Mason. Ill-fated trip includes Lizzie the mule’s illness, doctor calls, and ambulance transfers. Thornton ends with costs and plans to return years later. Also notes Homer Jennings and S. F. Clark visiting San Saba.
Weatherby announces Mesala for cattle on Fords and Fordsons promising quick cure. Product is pleasant, inexpensive, and sold with a positive guarantee. Simmons Drug Store offers it for seventy five cents.
Locker Texas June 21 1926 Miss Cecil Walker spent a week with her sister Mrs Ollie Smith of Pioneer returning home Monday Elmer Jones Brownwood business Wednesday and many locals visited relatives and friends across nearby towns A Junior Social at Mrs Jessie Neals featured ice cream and milk shakes as the Union group enjoyed the event Locker baseball beat Pontotoc 14 4 and a Cummins reunion gathered Mr and Mrs Tommie Cummins and kin from Algerita to the train to Louisiana later.
Sloan Texas June 21 1926 the San Saba News describes a Saturday afternoon shower with 1 to 2 inches of rain along Elm Hollow to Banar Man's Hole about two miles wide. pests grasshoppers threaten crops as farmers begin poisoning them. Navy McCall Gray meeting draws good audiences. Visitors include Roy Woods and families from Wallace Creek and San Saba. Dr Gray praised as a fine speaker. River Iris low from irrigation in Menard county. Vocational Bible School opens at Presbyterian Church for ages 4 to 15 with Miss Russell in charge from 8 to 11 30 am, nondenominational and open to all children.
San Saba scene shows Pennant Filling Station and Campbell’s promoting voile dresses at five dollars. Ad copy highlights value and local goods.
For over 40 years Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been used to treat catarrh. The product includes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
In San Saba a local man known as Denny Sullivan prophesied rain by seven. Despite initial doubt at The News office, clouds gathered and then rain fell around six, boosting his 100 percent weather reputation. The report notes continued boasting by the self styled prophet and mentions P. H. Van Cleave and a dress sale.
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