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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
1
The piece contrasts spendthrift wastefulness with frugal living. It recalls Edgar Wallace, a prolific author who wrote hundreds of novels, stories, and plays. Despite success and wealth, his estate failed to cover debts, leaving his wife without support.
The 1821 settlement between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers grew to 300 families by 1824 with Austin as legal authority. He set land prices and established two alcalde courts on the Brazos and Colorado. Trials, land applications, and relations with Tonkawa and other groups populated daily duties, while Texan schooling and early industry emerged alongside cattle branding practices and penal measures. Col Jared E Green owns extensive land holdings as graves and settlements multiply.
A flurry of Sunday visits and family gatherings across Wellington and Reed Oklahoma includes Mrs J A Lowe and family, Mr and Mrs J B Long, the Cason and Carpenter households, and appearances by Jolly Byer Fuson Cook and King. Birth announced Franks Fuson welcomed a ten pound baby boy. Water scarcity forces Ed Campeanu Fort Collins Cole to pour skimmed milk on a blaze endangering their home.
Herbert Abner, an Iowa farmer, fined $250 for calling his neighbor a dam fool ten times at $25 per offense. Mrs. Charlotte Foulks of Boston fined heavily for borrowing a baby to carry while she begged.
Secretary Wallace announced last Friday that the cotton average reduction plan is fulfilled and southern farmers proved they can cooperate for their own and the nation's good. Three and a half million bales will be retired, reducing potential carryover as June consumption hits a recent high. Prospects for cotton growers look better than in five years.
San Francisco erects a tall granite shaft in Golden Gate park to memorialize Roald Amundsen the Norwegian explorer who found the South Pole in 1911 and undertook multiple polar journeys before disappearing during a 1928 air rescue attempt. The monument honors his intrepid exploration and science contributions.
English professors in Kansas City debated how newspapers shape speech and headline style. They noted terms like probe crash pact flay blast tilt and warned against overreliance on journalese and shortened phrases.
A reminiscence recalls Cowboys in Western Oklahoma engaging in informal louse fights with bets from one to ten dollars. Winners kept the lice, which were placed back on the loser, as camp lore and river legends mix with World War era anecdotes. Dewey Ellis and Ross Wilkerson praise J D Hill for freeing prisoners and planting grass on the courthouse lawn, with Mrs Burden and Mrs Orr adding flowers.
Community notes celebrate decent rainfall in cotton country with Ira noting two inches at Quail and Morgan grinning widely over the weather. Local editor defends press figures while recalling street chatter about a taxi life story and a few sharp incidents including a bite of danger.
A vintage advertising pitch touts Crazy Water Hotel as a fifty four year symbol of recovery and health. It invites readers to spend a week or two in pleasant surroundings at the lowest cost in years with no obligation beyond mailing the attached coupon for full information.
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