Pilot Grove News Notes Warm Wind and Busy Local Life
Pilot Grove reports warm windy weather as farmers advance. Local social life thrives with visits from relatives, school outings, and Thanksgiving gatherings. Road gravel work begins with home labor and free gravel offered by landowners, and church youth groups plan a bright future as Rev. Dunn preaches for the Christian Church.
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Frank Ferguson
A. H. St. John
Glenn Ferguson
Nobility
R. E. L. Binion
Tom
Wichita Falls
Childress
Bert Morris
West Texas
Commerce
O. G. Bow
S. F. Garland
Sherman
M. G. Davis
Trenton
Morris McCarley
Jim McCarley
Tom Binion
J. C. McAfee
Lois and
Doss Chism
S .G. Ashinhurst
A. K. Sparks
Tom Bean
Forrest Doggett
van Alstyne
A. B. St. John
Dallas
Joe Burks
McKinney
Lillian Morgan
Lavada Mitchell
Don Hopper
A. H. Knox
Krum
A. T
Scott
Carl Holland
Kentuckytown
G. E. Thrift
Pilot Grove
J. E. Dunn
Christian Church
Baptist Church
Georgia Lee Neathery
Bow Corner
Cannon
West End
Automobiles converge on crowded street scene
A quizzical note from the Shoe and Leather Reporter questions why millions of cars share the same streets at once, reflecting on traffic congestion and the daily clash of mobility and urban life.
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United States
Doctor Mellenthin to Visit Sherman for One-Day Free Consult
Specialist in internal medicine with fifteen years experience will be at the Binkley Hotel in Sherman on Friday December 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. No charge for consultation. He does not operate and treats stomach liver bowel blood skin nerves heart kidney bladder bed wetting catarrh weak lungs rheumatism sciatica and rectal ailments. Address is 211 Bradbury Building Los Angeles California. Married women must be accompanied by husbands.
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Binkley Hotel
Mellenthin
State of
Texas
W. Bennett
Roscoe
R. L. Daniel
Sweetwater
Otto Eickmann
Wetmore
Nell Egan
Palestine
Bill Graf
Vernon
H. B. Hughes
Texarkana
Ark
C. A. Jones
Ranger
Jean Mills
Abilene
Bradbury Bldg
Los Angeles
California
William Tell Wounded in Nose in La Shooting Match
In Lafitte near New Orleans William Tell outshot Eads Blocker as Blocker shot Robert Hackney city detective through the nose with pistol bullets. Hackney was treated at a New Orleans hospital and listed not seriously hurt. The pair, both crack shots, had bet a hat on the outing after Tell knocked cigarets from lips and Blocker did the same.
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New Orleans
William Tell
Eads Blocker
Robert Hackney
Lafitte
Hackney
Blocker
15 Dead Toll of Football in the U. S. 1927
Topeka report by George Masters lists fifteen football deaths in the 1927 season. Illinois and Texas each show three fatalities, with Pennsylvania one of the states also reporting fatalities. Kansas Colorado Oklahoma Nebraska New Jersey Wisconsin and Michigan each have one death.
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Topeka
Kan
United States
George E. Masters
Illinois
Texas
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Nebraska
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Michigan
Detectives Settle Rooster Dispute By Coin Toss
In Dallas two detectives faced a bitter argument between two elderly men over ownership of a rooster. Each man held a leg of the bird and demanded possession while neighbors watched. The detectives proposed flipping a coin to settle the dispute, and both men accepted the outcome.
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Dallas
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Illness and Death
Card from Mrs. N. C. Ross and family thanking neighbors for help and sympathy during illness and after the death of their husband and father. Wishing God's blessings on each reader.
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N . C. Ross
Beef cow tops Fort Worth market at 116 dollars
Edna buyer W. R. Farquhar purchased a cow from A. E. Westhoff shipped to Fort Worth for 116 dollars. It marked the highest price for a single beef cow since the war.
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Edna
W. R. Farquhar
A. E. Westhoff
Fort Worth
Animal Recipe Noted at Westhoff Ranch Near Edna
An animal raised on the Westhoff ranch near Edna is mentioned as part of a historical record. The fragment indicates provenance from a Texas ranch and local connection to Edna, but no broader context is provided in the readable text.
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Westhoff
Edna
Mule Breathes Space After Kick Proof
A dated dialect exchange hints at a mule injuring a person recently, with humor about the mule’s behavior and a light regional touch. The snippet preserves a regional voice and rural setting without graphic detail.
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U. S
Dyer @ Jones
Drug Store No
Rexall
the Watch
Planters National Bank
BUICK
Lovejoy
O. B. Flint
Mich
Pearce Motor CO
Sherman, Texas
Shakespeare
South Side
Main St
First National Bank
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