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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1936
Page
4
The Wichita Falls Record News asserts democracy thrives in America while facing peril overseas. It champions freedom between individuals and nations, deeming humanity worthy of liberty, and calls Americans and Canadians to protect this noble ideal along the free frontier from sea to sea.
Our Past by C. B. Bishop reflects on liberty’s costly heritage in Texas, honoring Alamo defenders and frontier settlers. It laments modern complacency, urges Texans to remember the blood shed on March 1836 and the enduring freedom won by the founders amid conflict with Mexico.
National Safety Council figures for 1985 show over 100 000 accidental deaths in the United States with homes accounting for about 81 000 and autos about 37 000. The piece contrasts home and industrial safety gains, cites common home accident causes, and urges caution to avoid hospital and morgue outcomes. It also includes a series of brief, offbeat notes.
Monday morning notes record plans for Wednesday’s Old Settlers Picnic and Centennial Celebration amid lively town chatter. Farmers discuss crops, rainfall, pasture grass, and prices. residents share errands, traffic, and social visits around the square.
A Douglas-Frontpage essay contrasts the U S Canada border, peaceful and permissive, with the France Spain frontier marked by guns and vigilance. It argues American liberty and self direction vs European rule by force, framing climate for Europe’s future and war risks.
A bizarre clipping notes Daniel Brown a mountaineer who refuses vaccination for his sons and a Los Angeles woman Mrs Callie Sweltzer discovers four valuable diamonds tied to a dress after plumbers loot for rings. Antonine Galsprin in Hull shoots a neighbor’s violin over its music. Mrs Ella Holden of Portmouth seeks police custody of her eight year old daughter describing her as corrigible.
The text urges Christians to avoid harsh judgment and practice gentleness when correcting others. It emphasizes restoring those who falter, bearing each other’s burdens, and living a life of goodwill in a world of moral consequences. The guidance applies across eras, stressing practical, ethical conduct in daily life.
Six Detroit players receive autos at banquet as after dinner talk shows audience appeal. Spain reports say revolution relieves halls as Wilkes Barre parents scold school board over discipline. Democrats in Detroit consider hitchhiking to suit auto manufacturing city. Waukon Iowa bounties on rattlesnakes cut to require tail, rattles previously sold. Smithsonian to translate 1602 western hemisphere medical text with remedies, including cures for feeble-minded. Chicago man crashes after riding a senator powered by gasoline. vows to learn stopping. Hungarian girl’s vase break uncovers jewels and gold under false bottom. Hollywood crew crafts icicles and spider webs for films. Mountain Home Arkansas Anti-Cussing Club grows to 50 aiming to wipe out swearing.
Bounty clerk recites a relief signer who changed her mark after marriage. Jamaica Plain man carves the world’s largest meerschaum pipe with Battle of Bunker Hill figures. Minnesota physiologist J Ellisno, famed for dangerous shooting, owns a deadly insecticide air rifle. Los Angeles man Herbert Gordon arrested for spying from a cattle tower on women sunbathing at a sanitarium. Saint Mauch woman complains husband withholds earnings details.
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