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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1924
Page
6
Vernon shoppers fill streets and stores as Santa and the holiday season drive last minute gift buying. Window displays glow with toys, gems, furs, and electrical gifts while post office lines form for parcel service and railway carols echo through the chill. Local dealers prep new autos for Christmas Day demos.
Do not kill hogs until you have bought your hog killing salt from Puckett Brothers. This notice urges proper preparation for hog processing and directs readers to the local supplier for the necessary salt.
Henry W Grady warned fall prosperity would delay until Southern farmers eat bread from their fields. Farmers should specialize yet also grow home feed crops like corn and hay to control costs for cash crops such as cotton. Buying feed retail and selling crops wholesale affects profits and costs for farm operations.
The piece discusses the cost chain for feed and meat from farmer to consumer, noting low yields push prices, while feed crops fail as soil builders. It also mentions ads for hog sales at Puckett Brothers and social notes on local residents, including Essie Schindler visiting from Crowell and Coleman Devers moving to Altus for a bookkeeping role with Wim Cameron timber.
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