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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
4
The excerpt laments changing times as homes lose warmth to moving pictures dances and street life. It recalls fireside games and neighborhood gatherings replaced by ragtime nights and bright lights outside, ending with a sharp critique on modern youth and homes becoming shells.
An exhortation to openly show love and support to friends before they die. Don’t withhold alabaster gifts of sympathy until after loss. Brighten homes, speak kind words now, and send flowers before death to ease their burden. Post mortem kindness cannot lift the living.
73 acres with good improvements for sale located 1 mile east of Shiner on Hallettsville road. For more information contact Fritz Ehlers of Shiner Texas Route 1. Includes a 29x4 structure.
Yoakum Herald reports Commissioner Burkett working through his precinct to repair and grade roads after rain. He has dragged surfaces, improving riding conditions, and replaced near collapsing culverts and bridges with new ones, making travel smoother in the area.
Charles E. Mitchell argues in the American Bankers Association Journal that the Dawes plan offers a framework for settling Allied debts to the United States. He warns against forcing full payment and suggests taxes, gradual repayment, and maintaining international trade without crippling debtor economies.
Otto Richter submits a renewal for a one year subscription to the Gazette. He notes he receives the paper every Tuesday forenoon and looks forward to that day.
A historical snippet recounts Deep Mourning Hannah, a good natured mammy, asking for black union suits at a dry goods store after her husband’s death. The clerk offers white ones but Hannah rejects them. A separate note says Mr and Mrs Geo Hamon moving this week from Henkhaus to Moultun for the summer.
An eye catching line urges readers to call when in need of anything for their Ford car. The message promises genuine parts and service available through City Garage run by manager Emil L Bailusek.
Notice announces a May 26 1925 election at City Hall Shiner Texas from 8 am to 6 pm to decide whether fowls may run at large. F R Mergenthaler appointed presiding officer and J M Canon signs as secretary.
Dean Dodson recounts a Louisiana farmer who faced a $2200 hospital bill after his wife and daughter fell ill. He boosted income and trimmed costs by milking cows, selling milk and surplus garden products, feeding waste crops to livestock, expanding poultry, using idle land for grain and hay, and conserving fuel. By year’s end he paid the bill and learned sound farming.
Nordheim Texas May 9 a barn on the Herry HK Remmers farm was struck by lightning during a thunder storm Friday night and burned along with its contents. A cow died, about 150 bushels of corn and other feedstuffs were lost, and farm implements were ruined, though the automobile and some tools were saved. Insurance coverage partially mitigates the heavy total loss.
Mrs. Cora Sandifer of Newmoore ten miles northwest of O’Donnell Texas reports a rat problem with ineffective traps. She mixed a tablespoon of concentrated lye with a cup of molasses and placed it near a water tub. The next morning forty seven dead rats floated in the tub and within a few nights all rats on the place were dead.
W M Nolikamper of Filatonia visits W H Miler in a noted meeting. The occasion marks a courtesy call between regional residents.
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