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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1921
Page
2
Special correspondence reports visitors and residents in Fargo area including J T Castleberry and Vernon guests. Mentions include Miss Bess Herrick of Waco leaving after two weeks with Frances Wicks, a new baby born to Mr and Mrs L Rogers of Tolbert, and notices of fresh vegetables and grocery ads from Me Celvey Grocery Co.
Miss Lillian Newton of the Carnegie library finds Vernon men enjoy Western stories and detective tales, with business men reading avidly. Summer reading shifts to lighter fare for women and club members, while new books include Pour Minute Essays, Elementary Economics, The Wilderness Mine, Missy, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Miss Minerva's Baby, and Josephine in adventurous stories for children.
Vernon report highlights a customer’s claim for Doan’s Kidney Pills easing back pain and kidney weakness. Also mentions a 50 percent stationery sale at Ferguson Drug Co, local social notes, and upcoming astronomical eclipse forecasts with brief community updates.
The edition highlights multiple films and star roles for the week. It promotes While New York Sleeps with New York City skyline scenes and urban color, Milestones tracing three generations, The Place of Honeymoons with Emily Stevens gowns, The White Dove with moral questions, Ting Lang with Sessue Hayakawa, and Eva Novak in Society Secrets along with comedies and dramas.
Mrs Hf L Terhune entertained with a 42nd party for her sister Miss Lorene Greene of Thorp Springs. St Patrick decorations highlighted the salad and ice courses. Hostess was assisted by Mrs BF L Childress and Mrs A B Garland.
A notice to stockholders requests attendance at the Bailey Hotel at 3 p m Thursday to discuss important matters. Other items include a farm loan ad from Davis & Summerour, travel note about Mrs Chandler Caraway visiting Wichita Falls, and Phillip Maloney of Philadelphia visiting his sister Mrs M F Kelly. Prices of Sing Sing prisoner products cut while wages stay at one and a half cents daily.
A fragment notes Latvia as a new Baltic state where living costs are high, stating twenty five cents a day as a comfortable amount and that depreciation affects the English pound versus the dollar. It mentions Z. F. Reilly, roadmaster for Denver, visiting Vernon over the weekend and a reference to tax collectors in Vernon on Monday.
An eight and a half pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hood Wright of West Wanderer Street Vernon. Mother and child are doing well. Local notices mention promotions and business ads including Ferguson Drug Co offering half price paper and hardware items from McAdams Lumber Co and McCeliver Grocery Co.
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