Local society notes and classifieds from the Wichita Falls area
Residents visit relatives and neighbors with many social updates including Roscoe Cook staying with his grandfather J R Fleming and Mrs F C Short visiting Sherman. Local businesses Gordon Bros Pierce's Cafe and Vittitee Dairy advertise groceries and meals while a road crew repairs a bridge north of Bells. Basil Thomson buys a residence and plans to move, with assorted ads for furniture skates and garden services.
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Roscoe Cook
Wichita Falls
J. R. Fleming
Seed Cotton Sale Ad From W C Cook
An advertisement notes a sale of several hundred bushels of cotton seed from Mebane pedigreed seed, grown on heavy land and ginned on a pedigreed-only gin. Price is 1.40 dollars per bushel, sacked and delivered, with cheaper prices at the barn unsacked.
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Mebane
W. C. Cook
Farm land and Fordson tractor for sale in Oklahoma
One hundred and ten acres of land in Bryan County Oklahoma half a mile from a good little town can give possession. Priced absolutely right. I also have a Fordson tractor in good condition for sale. See me at once George German.
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Bryan County
Oklahoma
George German
Lost or stolen diamond rings advertised for reward
Two diamond solitaire rings missing with delivery to Whitewright Sun reward offered. Whitewright Sun want ad suggests placing an ad to sell or locate the items.
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Whitewright Sun
Sun
Hill's Filling Station Promotes Gulf Gasoline and Auto Parts
Hill's Filling Station announces new Gulf gasoline and oils in the Spearman addition with a note on second-hand auto parts. Manning & Clark advertise utility gifts while Whitewright Filling Station owned by Wade Sears promotes wholesale tire and tube pricing in a removal sale.
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Hill
Spearman
Whitewright Filling Station
Wade Sears
Fourteen Points on Killing a Church
A fourteen point satirical list lectures on church attendance and participation. It warns readers to avoid coming, to come late, to bring a grouch, to question personal gain from services, and to avoid accepting offices.
Rules For Church Members On Independence And Support
The passage urges church members to seek independence from their pastor visiting other churches, avoid praising sermons, delay payments, and downplay harmony. It warns against flattery, sharing pastor faults with strangers, and resisting zeal, while recounting historic oil discovery practices and the shift to modern products from Seneca oil.
The First Oil Well in Ohio History
Noble County near Caldwell marks Ohio’s oil origins with a well drilled in 1814 by Robert McKee for salt brine. The early operation began in primitive conditions as the oil industry slowly grew from its modest beginnings in this 19th century tableau.
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Sen
Ohio
Noble County
Caldwell
Robert McKee
Marietta
McKees_ Rocks
Pennslyvania
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F. C. Short of
Sherman
R. W. Williams
Gordon Bros
F. J. Osburn
Dallas
J. E. Russell
Ross R. May of
R. May
J. M. Carraway
van Alstyne
C. J. Davenport
J. L. Dyer
Paul Gunby
City
CC. T. Atkinson
Baby
S. T. Montgomery
Georgetown
Lloyd Moore
John Jennings
R. A. Dicus
Whitesboro
George Gattis
Pierce
Annie FE. Jones
B. B. Kimbell
Kay Kimbell
Fort Worth
Pierce & Sons’ Cafe
Bells
Basil Thomson
S. "Blanton
George Hansard
Manning & Clark’s
Just
Hill’s Filling Station
Boykin’s
W. C. Boykin Company
Erman, Texas
the Home OF Home Furnishings
Sherman’s Greatest Department Store
Toyland
Old Santa
Grayson County Boys and Girls
Lincoln
Wilson
Franklin
Hanna
Gladstone
Wanamaker
Washington
Roosevelt
Garfield
Planters National Bank
Manning & Clark
Winchester
Dyer & Jones
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