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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1922
Page
4
A garbled mix references Mayfield Ferguson and opposing campaign focuses on Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan. Mentions Senate actions, President Harding, and railroad police in early week deliberations while weather and vernal garden notes intermingle amid local tensions and sparse clarity.
Chillicothe leads a drive to improve roads linking Vernon Altus and Odell with a chamber backed tour to foster trade ties. Merchants see road upgrades and tourist parks boosting inter state traffic and the Vernon trade radius, hoping to capture travelers and dollars as new bridges and routes extend regional commerce.
The report notes a Fort Worth to Lake Worth electric interurban railway project starting after 25 surveys finish. The Southwestern Traction Company will build it, with Lake Worth to gain a new facility. Fort Worth Chamber supports the effort as business leaders assist this extension plan costing over 1.5 million dollars.
A compact remark states that daily life often requires sense even when one lacks explicit knowledge. The line reflects on practical adaptability over certainty.
Griffith, 80, marks sixteen years as precinct one justice of the peace and is nominated for another term. Known as the marrying squire, he has united 245 couples and aims to continue in office as long as able. He was born in Wales in 1842 and came to Texas in 1872, settling in Vernon after a Denver line career.
The Corpus Christi Caller notes that hand producing 100 pairs of women’s shoes consumes 1025 hours of labor while machines need about 50 hours. A machine saw can produce pine beards in 272 hours, as much as 16,000 hours of hand work. The piece warns of a future where human labor is devoted to making and maintaining machines.
The article extols electric power as a vital utility enabling faster work, cites late-mouster hens producing eggs with higher value, notes rising interest in the Dallas to Terrell interurban line, and reports Waxahachie streetcar conductors receiving annual accident-free service awards for four years.
Whiteker of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce urged Vernon officials to push strong county exhibits at the Wichita Falls and Dallas State fairs. He aims to attract many west Texas counties and select a creditable farm display from Dallas exhibitors to travel to other fairs.
That culling the flock to remove birds except vigorous prolific layers improves progeny shows in tests at the United States Experiment Farm Deltsville Ma. The best birds from 100 Rhode Island Reds in 1920 laid seven more eggs per bird in their second year than the original flock.
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