Blackwood Webb Run For Commissioner Place Four East
W M Blackwood and Luther Webb announce candidacy for Commissioner Place Four in East district. They seek local leadership and support from residents and community groups.
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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1921
Page
4
W M Blackwood and Luther Webb announce candidacy for Commissioner Place Four in East district. They seek local leadership and support from residents and community groups.
The piece argues lowering cotton production while boosting consumption as the cure for low prices. It cites a possible 20 to 50 percent drop in cotton acreage next year and promotes a Dallas led movement to wear cotton garments. It urges nationwide Wear Cotton Clothes clubs to help farmers and provide affordable, durable clothing.
Patchy dialogue shows a Garden dispute as a neighbor recalls planting flowers and a gift box. The speaker mentions Henry's liver pills and a street encounter, hinting at a comical miscommunication about a garden and a box of seeds.
Allied experts contend Germany can pay the large reparations asked, noting its lower postwar debt and substantial industrial capacity. They contrast Germany with France, Belgium, and Italy, arguing Germany’s external debt was about 2.5 billion marks for 65 million people and its industries are producing robustly as prewar foreign trade rebounds.
The report places Texas among states with notable divorce figures, listing Nessada Oregon Washington Felling Oklahoma Mon a Arizona and Indiana. It notes Washington with the latest data and suggests Texas lags behind higher divorce rates in other states.
The international reform bureau ranks Beaumont area Jefferson county as fourth worst in the U S for divorces with 760 per 100000. It notes Jefferson Brazos Harris Galveston Pecos Wichita and Tarrant counties have rates double Japan s and cites the Flowery Kingdom as most notorious for easy divorce. The piece stresses home as a sacred institution and urges parental example to teach children the value of the home amid growing trends toward divorce.
Dallas reports rising interest in pulp from cotton linters as low linters prices spur new plants. Commerce, Memphis, Augusta, and Hopewell sites pursue production while USDA findings confirm linters yield high grade paper comparable to wood pulp, signaling potential large scale mills and competitive costs.
The Legion should not be held responsible for all actions by wearers of the American uniform. Hasty judgment against the organization is unfair as some Legion members attacked Non-Partisan League representatives in North Dakota. Yet the public expects the Legion to act prudently and uphold standards.
The Baltimore Sun asserts the American Legion should publicly condemn members who overrun the rights of fellow citizens and compare their actions to Kaiser tyranny. It calls for rebuke of those who forget Americanism and the liberties soldiers fought to defend.
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