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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
3
A former A&M College Extension expert warns that April chick losses reach hundreds of thousands of dollars due to ignorance and poor management. Key advice covers heat, milk, green feed, grit, water, dry housing, and easily digested food to build vitality.
An advertisement notes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets promise to stop cough and headache and cure a cold in one day. E W Grove’s signature appears on each box and the price is 30 cents.
Belton Texas April 14 George F Hornsby 28 years old paid the extreme penalty on the scaffold at 2 12 this afternoon He declared his innocence to the last Death was instantaneous his neck broken by the fall He spoke from the scaffold reiterating innocence and peace with his maker He advised others to do likewise His body was taken to Temple for burial Hornsby thanked Bell County officers and people for kindnesses.
Hornsby killed J. N. Weatherby, a Brownwood auto dealer. The case moved to Bell County, drawn wide attention in district court. Hornsby lacked funds for counsel. Sam D. Snodgrass of Temple was appointed. The jury set the death penalty. an appeal failed, higher court affirming the verdict.
The Governor faced petitions bearing over 7000 names urging commutation to life imprisonment. Meanwhile Willie Carter, a 16-year-old state witness against Hornsby, swore his trial testimony was false, exonerating Hornsby and implicating himself and another man. Carter was later arrested in Brownwood, where he repudiated his Temple testimony and admitted to the murder charge.
Trial details note Carter taken to Austin for interview with Governor Neff who declined to overturn the verdict. Hornsby remains the first white man hanged in Bell County in about fifty years.
R S Morehead advertises a good stock of auto castings and tubes with competitive prices and a call to visit before buying.
A fragment notes Colds cause grip and influenza with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. It identifies one product as Bromo Quinine and includes E. W. Grove's signature on the box. The line reads 30.
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