Gordon Bros to Open Men's FurNishings Store Here
Read in The Sun August 5 1921 Gordon Bros announce plans to open a men s furnishings shop in town. Also notes include a cotton crop forecast 8 203 000 bales and a K K K notice at Ector bank urging work or leaving town by August 1. J M Sturdivant authorized to sell 242 bales of government linters at 25 cents each. Joe Johnson returns from a six week government radio camp in New Jersey. Jim Sears sells Celina drug business and plans Northwest move. Claude Willis returns from Camp Logan six weeks military training.
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Gordon Bros
Department of Agriculture
Ector Bank
Whitewright
Ida
J. M. Sturdivant
U. S
Joe Johnson
New Jersey
Jim Sears
Celina
Northwest
Claude Willis
Camp Logan
Denver
Colo
Kimbell Plant Destroyed by Fire and Local Trade Prices
The Kimbell milling plant burned early Monday morning. Threshers resumed work Monday after a month of rain delays. Oats fetch 25 to 32 cents per bushel and wheat from 1.00 to 1.25 dollars. Sun contest invites readers to bring peaches to The Sun office with participants named. Mrs. Ray Manning hosted a bridge party Tuesday afternoon.
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Kimbell
Sun
Bettie Currin
H. F. Thompson
J. L. Truett
W. L. White
A. J. Cates
J. W. Waldrop
Ray Manning
Dog Days Bring Woe to Farmers Of Dixie
In Picayune Mississippi the dog days of July flood the land, soaking cotton, driving dampness through cabins, and curbing plowing. The piece notes drenched fields, weevils thriving, and a somber mood among workers and negroes as rains persist well past July 4.
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Dixie Region
Picayune
Miss
Dixie
South
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis Turns Tide In Texas Prohibition Campaign
In 1887 Texas faced a heated statewide vote on a prohibition amendment. Jefferson Davis’s retirement letter to Governor Lubbock was read at a Fort Worth rally, signaling the end of the anti liquor drive as voters went to the polls August 5 and defeated the measure by more than two to one. The Dallas News reported Davis urged restraint, while Texas leaders like Reagan and Hogg weighed in on the clash of temperance forces. The episode capped a pivotal era in Texas politics.
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Texas
Jim Hogg
George Clark
John H. Reagan
J. W. Throckmorton
Roger Q. Mills
Barnett Gibbs
J. B. Cranfill
Cone Johnson
Joe Bailey
Sam Houston
Jim Ferguson
Jeff Davis
Jefferson Davis
Beavoir, Miss
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Gatesville
Hotspur of
The
News
Democratic Party of
Texas Democracy
A. W. Terrell
Austin
United States
Galveston
Sul Ross
Gainesville
Harry Percy
North
Johnson
Dallas
Corsicana
Grover-Cleveland
Philliph
Col
D. C. Giddings
Houston
Waco
Warwick
Hogg-Clark
Little Giant
Maine
Woman’s Rights
Kansas
Iowa
Hogg
Fort Worth
Francis R. Lubbock
Richmond
Beavoir
Lubbock
Reagan
Davis
Cooke County
J. W. Bailey
Miss
Louisville
Dallas News
Clear Fork
Confederacy
Wild Horses Being Walked Down to Enable Capture
About forty head of wild horses are being walked down on the Opp ranch eight miles west of Fort McKavett. A cowhand keeps after the herd until they submit to the halter then they will be moved to other approaches. It is one of the last collections of wild horses in the state.
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San Angelo
Opp Ranch
Fort McKavett
Bath as Religious Rite in Ancient Sanitation
The article argues Moses was history’s first health officer guiding sanitation and communal bathing. It links biblical bathing rites to later religious practices, noting Moses issued citylike laws to ensure obedience and cleanliness as a symbol of spiritual cleansing.
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Moses
Egypt
Detroit Free Press
Hogwallow News Scribbles From Denk Botts Corner
Local column notes quirky items from Hogwallow. Poke Bezley names his old yellow Century of Progress while a dog sits in the road. Flinders hides in a cistern to escape hornets. A big car woman asks for Tickville directions at the store.
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Poke Bezley
Sim Flinders
Tickville
Ellick Helwanger
Ellick
Cardus Helps Beaumont Woman Recover Health
Mrs Nick Barranco of Beaumont Texas says after seven bottles Cardus stopped side pain and rebuilt her health. She felt weak nervous and poorly rested before using Cardus and learned of its benefits from her mother. Cardus is sold at all drug stores.
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Nick Barranco
Beaumont
Texas
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Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co
James Y. Nicely
St. Vincent's Sanitarium
Sherman
T. H. Lively
Ely
W. H. Forrest
F. M. Echols
R. W. Gallaher
Hayden
Ladonia
J. H. Truett
Pascal Harper
Neva Nicely
W. N. Stone
Whitewright Cotton Oil Company
Elizabeth Waggoner
Velma Kirkpatrick
Emma Moore
East Whitewright
Nell Keeling
A. C. Keeling
Cooper
Jones
Typewriter
Sun Office
Iensmore Shute
Philadelphia
St. Andrews
Whitewright Lumber Co
Sam Acheson
Bath
Hogwallow News
Denk Botts
Sap Sprachen
Poke Eazley
Jeff Potlocks
Rye Straw
Frank D. Layman
Whitewright, Texas
Cardus
Damocles
S. H. Montgomery Agency
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