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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1918
Page
2
The Ghost Gyler receives praise from critics for Mary Miles Minter in a cohesive amusing performance staged by Josephine Phisham Bacon Tully. Lila Lee debuts as a charming new star, while Viola Dana stars in Flower of the Dusk adapted from Myrtle Reed.
A old time circus brings tents animals and popcorn recalling simpler shows. Florence Morse Kingsley’s To the Highest Bidder follows a young woman selling herself to save her brother’s farm. Rosalie Dean helps Frank Grey after a loan, but murder charges loom. Catherine Calvert stars in A Part of The Underworld with a brutal political boss and a girl drawn into danger.
Brown Nov 4 special correspondence describes a quiet Sunday with no church service and a singing at the school house. Visitors include W L Stephens from Wichita Falls, plus local families and churchgoing residents. A large black wolf was killed by S C Hawley. Pendleton & Son advertise window suggestions.
The Northwest Texas Annual Conference will meet in Abilene instead of Lubbock due to a quarantine in Laubockminder from Spanish influenza. Delegates from Vernon County travel as several pastors relocate to Abilene while ministers reassess laity rights for women and the Apostles Creed wording.
In Wichita county the Guette No 1 at Sunshine Slope Oil Co tested 40 barrels from a 120 foot sand between Sunshine Hill shallow and Ram Wing deep. Trans Land Development Co brought in a 100 barrel well on Sunshine Hill last week. Burkburnett sees Hardin No 1 abandoned at 2 000 feet near townsite pool. Helen Elizabeth on Van Cleave property yielded 500 to 600 barrels daily. Smith No T swabbing 200 barrels and Overbys Smith No T pumping 1 000 barrels from a 1 666 foot sand. A boiler at Staley No 1 blew, derrick 25 feet, no injuries.
We thank friends for kindness during bereavement and loss of our husband son and brother May God’s blessing rest upon you from Mrs Lucy Clovpron Mr H H Clpton and family Mrs Maggie Ellis Mrs Blanche Johnson J J Harvey. He made a business trip home last week from Fort Worth.
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. It asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine purifies the blood and reaches mucous surfaces, prepared by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo with testimonials offered.
In a letter dated October 6 Corporal Robinson of the Thirty-Fifth Division recounts going over the top three times in four days. He says he has not been scratched and notes three to four months of active service. He writes from a rest village after departing from Kansas City. Wait, Thirty-Fifth Division is referenced.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during the illness and death of our wife and mother J H W Brock and Children. Bob Rose of Chillicothe visited Vernon Friday.
An old advertisement promotes Nux I Tone an iron tonic with Nux Vomica beef peptones and wine. It claims to restore vitality for pale weak and run-down conditions and lists benefits including better sleep appetite and flesh. A clipping offers a 75 cent coupon toward a one dollar bottle on Nux I Tone Day Saturday November 9th.
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