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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
4
A Missouri paper warns against widespread selling of “ancient” candlesticks and other relics to tourists as pioneer antiques. It notes vast quantities marketed and a man paying 1400 dollars for a walnut stamp to craft “antique furniture” for Missouri pioneers, echoing famed conmen and Stevenson inkstand lore.
In a bustling county scene residents and visitors share a sunny day. Mrs J W Duke invites Mr and Mrs Barton to a future chicken dinner while J H W Hobbs seeks a harness. Families shop, greet neighbors, and note a recent marriage, with fruit pickup, grocery runs, and street chatter shaping a lively afternoon.
A national survey and various government statistics show women drivers are about a quarter of all drivers yet account for only 7.63 percent of recorded accidents. In large cities 2.53 percent of traffic violators were women, with 78 percent of officers calling women safer drivers than men.
Cadjo Lewis, 96, lives near Mobile in Plateau. Described by W H Blumenthal as the most historic Negro in the United States, he is the last living survivor of Africans brought to America aboard the Clothilde in 1859. Captured with 109 Tarkar in Africa, he endured a 70 day voyage, worked in shipyards after the Civil War, and now tends his garden and serves as church sexton with his wife and six children buried nearby. He says, Some of dhese days I tekt time to die. When I go, I ain't got fur to go.
A newspaper account locates a primitive settlement on Sour Island in the Hackensack Meadows New Jersey ten miles from Broadway. It notes 32 families living without schools churches phones movies running water sidewalks or other modern conveniences while aware of New York City’s lights nearby and occasional trips to Secaucus.
After the Civil War Texas cattle prices dropped while beef commanded 25 to 40 cents in the East. Hardware salesman John W Gates introduced barbed wire in 1871 in San Antonio, proving its fencing value by corraling twenty five wild Longhorns. Barbed wire spurred rapid fence expansion, overgrazing, and a rise in rustling as open-range days waned.
A collage of quirky items from Pueblo and beyond notes about hens marking eggs with G, duels called off, Prohibition ending, and locals reacting to new autos. Shifts to a Irish burglary warning by a Belfast woman, a long forgotten alimony case, a Milwaukee man defending his reputation, a wrecked railroad engine case in Welch, and rural mail box anecdotes.
The June 25 Sunday school lesson argues Christianity would lack meaning without missions and that the missionary impulse drives spread beyond home borders. It cites Jesus sending disciples, notes early temptations of hypocrisy, and praises figures like Kagawa of Japan, asserting the gospel’s universal power to save.
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