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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1925
Page
6
A reader describes quick handcrafted gift baskets and tins decorated with enamel paint. She outlines simple candy recipes Butterfly Wings My Own and an unusual date chocolate treat, plus a Mock Fruit Cake and other edible ideas to fill decorative boxes for friends. She stresses personal touch and cost savings.
A nostalgic reflection on Christmas softening rivalries and hurts. The speaker imagines being photographed on Christmas to look pleasant without questions, noting the day dissolves grudges and rekindles old memories with tenderness, even amid sorrow.
The article recalls a Christmas gathering on the Neches river sixty years ago. Descendants of participants later held high offices in Texas, including Congress and the governor’s chair. It reflects on Texas progress and the enduring Christmas spirit in the piney woods.
Classified ads survey offers from Glen Rose to Lubbock and beyond, listing farms, ranches, and tracts for sale or lease. Properties include 615 acre stock farm near Glen Rose, irrigation options, numerous acreages in Texas Panhandle and South Plains, and regional listings in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Florida, and more with terms tailored for cash, installment, or trade. Prices range from a few hundred to thousands, with emphasis on tilable land, water access, and development potential.
A dense classified page lists used and new motors, junk buyers, and many sale offers. Items include horry outfits, barber shops, hotels, grocery stores, filling stations, and a headline grabber for a 10 acre tourist park with pecan trees. They also advertise seed, plants, and nursery stock from various Texas and nearby states.
A collage of old ads offers underground treasures guidance, piano company mail order, free bait for trapping, mineral goods, hunting wildlife products, wolf and coyote extermination formulas, furs made to order, and various mail order items from Grimes Lawing Piano Co in Fort Worth to Mrs H Sheppard in Uvalde Texas.
An archival advertisement notes Kodak finishing and prompt service for prints that do not fade. It promotes enlargements, new film, and trial offers by Bryant Studio in Ft. Worth and JORDAN CO. in Austin with 8 cent film processing and prints.
Multiple kennel advertisements list availability of white Spitz puppies and various breeds including bulldogs collies German police pups Russian Wolfhounds Boston Terriers cocker spaniels bird dogs deer wolf coonhounds and foxhounds. Prices range from five to fifty dollars with delivery and catalog details provided by each advertiser in Kansas Missouri Ohio Texas and Colorado listings.
Classified notice listing include Holstein bull calf for 25 dollars with delivery guarantee. Various offerings from Robert Ellis in Caddo Oklahoma and Gladys Powell in Chareo Texas for Shetland ponies and broken ponies. Also ads for stocker lambs breeding ewes and two year old wethers, plus a Colorado Horse and Mule Commission Co notice and Missouri jacks and Percheron study.
An opportunity is offered for a partner with limited cognites to engage in manufacturing mechanics implements and washing powder. contact Wee Today Sullivan at Box 47 Ft. Lee New Jersey for details.
When you have turkeys to sell call us at 208 West 13thFort Worth Texas. Prices listed under Veg Hished Prices. Contact CLIFTON reoptca for details at CO. Fort Worth Temas district.
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