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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1924
Page
4
The Vernon Record lists mailing details and editor contact, explains post office status, and provides subscription and advertising rates. It notes address changes, rate per word for notices, obituaries, poetry, and display ads, with a pledge to correct erroneous reflections upon notification.
The nation mourns Samuel Gompers, longtime AFL president, praised for resisting Bolshevik and German communist influence in American labor. He backed peaceful negotiation, opposed labor parties, and defended contracts while guiding U.S. labor to growth. His death prompts tribute to a steadfast defender of American institutions.
A Dallas conference under Governor-elect Miriam A. Ferguson recommends a connected Texas highway system linked to an adequate road program. The plan aims for continued progress and a fairer tax distribution among road projects.
The conference recommends shifting highway funding to favor those who use the roads most. It calls for lower automobile license taxes and higher gasoline taxes, giving counties more road funds while centralizing maintenance at the state level. Commercial and tourist users would bear higher costs.
Chevrolet Motor Company has moved to manufacture hundreds of small and large parts internally to cut costs. The shift includes aligning assembly plants with Fisher body plants and began in the fall of 1928 with in house drops such as front axles and steering wear parts.
The Chevrolet Motor Company reduces malleable parts from 140 pounds to 60 pounds. It now makes all drop forgings and stampings in house and has taken over fenders and sheet metal parts like side aprons radiator splash guards and hoods. This policy enables added quality in the car.
Glycerine mixture with buckthorn bark sold as Adlovika claims to ease gas in ten minutes by acting on both upper and lower bowels. It promises to remove gases and poisons and draws out material thought absent from the system. Available as obstinate constipation remedies from Gilluids Soli Vernon Marrold Odell druggists.
The register shows numerous entries including Ottice Cloniger driving a Ford and R. R. Harrison with a Chevrolet coupe. Others include B. P. Wisener in a Ford, F. C. Mints Ford, W. C. Snyder Ford, M. A. Inman Ford, A. B. Meyers Chevrolet, and G. G. Brady Ford among many more.
Chevrolet and Ford offerings feature prominently alongside Dodges from A. H. Thrash and Homer Smith. L. A. Hollar and Fred Streit list Ford trucks while Prank Micola advertises another Ford model.
G W Backus Jr son of Mr and Mrs G W Backus returns from Wisconsin to Vernon to join his father in the G W Backus Marble and Granite Works. Mrs Backus to join him soon. Bob Pove an oil field worker is in hospital with a dislocated knee receiving treatment.
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