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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1924
Page
4
The Vernon Record is printed in Vernon Texas with R H Nichols as editor and manager. It notes second class mail status and advises subscribers to provide old and new addresses for changes. Subscription rate is one year for $2.00.
Classified ads cost 12 cents per word for first insertion. Three insertions reduce to 8 cents per word. Minimum charge 25 cents. Local reading notices cost a word per insertion. Obituary notices charged per word. Poetry 2 cents per word. Cash required with reading notices. Display ads 1 column inch rate 45 cents.
The piece reviews Obregon's decade of rule in Mexico and the peaceful transfer to General Calles. It praises gains in order, education, railroads, and agriculture while warning of ongoing risks from ignorance and lingering revolutions. It calls for supportive U.S. involvement to aid Mexico’s pacification and development.
Republican Senators passed a resolution expelling Senator La Follette and three allied radicals. The decisive November majority enabled regulars to act though earlier small margins prevented formal schism. The move preserves party control and leadership of the Senate amid La Follette’s faction.
The Republicans in the Senate act to expel those alienated from the party to restore discipline and clear political atmosphere. The move follows La Follette’s third party candidacy and a weakened working majority for Republicans next session. Democrats might mirror the step for similar internal realignment.
Farmers from four Gulf Coast counties organized an eleven car train, the first ever run by Texas farmers, costing about 25000 dollars for a twelve day tour through central and north Texas. A 9000 dollar ticket covered 150 reservations. over 100 farmers paid 150 dollars each. The trip, leaving Corpus Christi November 9 and returning November 22, visited 38 towns with two hour stops. A 160 man Fort Sam Houston band accompanied exhibits of farm products and a 4000 foot motion picture film from Nueces San Patricio Jim Wells and Kleberg counties was shown. Population served by the Gulf Coast auction is about 64000.
Phone 473 advertised tailor delivery from City Tailors Roundtree and Williams. A birth notice announces Mr and Mrs Artie Berry’s son born November 28 at Lake Pauline.
Y. D. Moses of Vernon is recovering from an operation at a local hospital.
Bargains in folding beds at Lisenbeen Furniture Co. explore affordable frames and models in stock now, with discounts and limited quantities available for immediate purchase.
G. PD. Sonris completed a trip to Dallas where he engaged in a business mission and related dealings.
Miss Elise Beth Lacy leads an advanced cooking class at the University of Texas to create as many peanut based dishes as possible from a single Texas product. Miss Ruby Peak of Lubbock demonstrates peanut macarons stuffed tomatoes peanut sandwiches peanut candy peanut bread and peanut banana salad after experimentation.
National Livestock and Meat Board announces a first of its kind cook book titled Meat and How to Cook It. Compiled from material by high school home economics students across the United States, the guide will be distributed free to schools colleges and households upon request. The book grew from the National Meat Story Contest in which nearly 12 000 girls competed and submitted essays.
Report notes Senator Pramoes B Waaren, aged 30, a millionaire and long-serving member since 1845, pursuing rapid ascent to Republican Senate leader. Describes him as powerful and compared to historic figures while contesting the late Hillary Cabot Lodgs’s legacy.
Recipes tested at home or school form the beat of thousands submitted for a cook book. Each recipe is accompanied by the submitter name and address, highlighting community involvement and home testing.
Miss Pearl Graves of Tempore California submitted the winning story titled Meat and How I Cook It after securing the national championship. The piece was chosen as most appropriate for the cookbook for girls and highlights how she prepares nog.
The Dallas Morning News extends the Cotton on 1 Acre contest deadline from December 1 to December 10. Entrants must mail reports and affidavits to the Cotton Contest Editor at the Dallas Morning News by December 10 for the State Cotton Contest Committee to review and declare the $1,000 grand prize winner. Also, the Record office seeks clean cotton rags.
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