Local Happenings at Hogwallow and Surroundings
Dunk Botts scares a hen on a practice day in the stable. Jeff Potlocks adjusts his time after moving west. Cricket Hicks plans courting lessons with Miss Peachie Sims Sunday. The Old Miser counts money while neighbors are in church. Salem Barlow asks at delivery window for mail that isn’t there. Bounding Billows merchant touts leather shoes. Clair Hancock’s honesty gains neighborhood trust after church remarks. George Washington’s portrait graces Wild Onion school room. Jefferson Potlocks visits store to settle debts, seeking distraction from troubles.
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Cricket Hicks
Moving Pictures
Peachie Sims
Musket Ridge
No records of baptism before the sixteenth century
A fragment notes that no baptism records exist prior to the sixteenth century. It adds claims about Michigan’s salt reserves and a comparison of manila rope to steel cable in strength. A scientist is quoted stating the average human lifespan is about thirty one years.
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Michigan
Manila
Factoids From A World Almanac Of Odd Notions
A collection of scale figures and curiosities noting population mortality rates, Buddhist share, beef shrinkage from roasting, Victoria Falls height, tobacco mineral loss per acre, Panama and Suez canal dimensions, and Bolivian tin mine depths and ore richness.
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Panama Canal
Pueblo Flood Night Of Terror Amid River Deluge
Floods and fires swept across the city and surrounding areas after heavy rainfall. Refugees endured a night of terror as streets and rail yards flooded and debris blocked progress. The military organized aid, unloading food trucks and assisting cleanup. A comparative regional memory notes historic disasters and loss of life in major events such as the Chicago fire and the Titanic sinking.
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Arkansas
Pueblo
Galveston
Texas City
Chicago
Johnstown
Mt. Pelee
Iroquois Theater
General Slocum
San Francisco
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promised to Cure Deafness
Catarrhal Deafness cannot be cured by local applications. A constitutional remedy through the blood is claimed. Hall's Catarrh Medicine asserts it cures by restoring inflamed Eustachian tubes and mucous surfaces, with a $100 reward for any case not cured. Circulars free from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Retreading Tires by R S Morehead in The Adventures of Grandpa
An ad style notice by R S Morehead promotes retreading tires to extend life, offering vulcanizing and patching for blowouts as part of tire maintenance messaging in the column The Adventures of Grandpa.
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R. S. Morehead
Whitewright Texas votes on extra school tax in 1921 election
Whitewright City Commission orders June 20 1921 election to decide an additional Ad Valorem tax of twenty five cents per one hundred dollars for maintenance of public schools. Voters will see For the Increase in Tax or Against the Increase in Tax on ballots. Election managers named and notice to be published.
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Board of Education
Whitewright Independent School District
City Commission
City of
Whitewright
Grayson County
Texas
J. M. Carter
R. B. Gordon
A. T. Phillips
S. 8. Doss
T and P removing electric fans from steel coaches
Marshall May 24. The Texas and Pacific Railway ordered removal of all small revolving fans from steel day coaches. Fans are being taken down and stored in the storeroom here to reduce operating costs and expenses.
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Marshall
Texas & Pacific Railway
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Health Claim Card
A tonic advertised as energizing and blood purifying states it restores vitality, improves appetite, and adds color to the cheeks. It claims to be iron and quinine suspended in syrup and suits both adults and children. Promote malaria and grip germ destruction with its strengthening effect. 60c.
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Grove
Reporter's Call for News to Improve Local Paper
The notice invites readers to share tips or stories from visits or visitors. It emphasizes that timely, readable information will help strengthen the hometown newspaper and keep residents informed. Readers are encouraged to contribute details from daily life and community events.
Boiler Work Refining and Patching Notice
Refining and patching services advertised with emphasis on out of town work and prompt delivery. Request prices in response to the notice.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Atlas Peck
Jeff Potlocks
Salem Barlow
Bounding Billows
Clair Hancock
George Washington
Wild Onion
Jefferson Potlocks
Victoria
Zambesi River
Denison Herald
Associated Press News
Guy Stedham
Wilbur Carter
Kelly
Sherman
R. May
Kirkpatrick’s
W. Hugh Ford
M. & P. Bank
R. C. Hoyle
R. B. Nall
Commercial Bank
Wolfe, Freeman & Wolfe
Sherman, Texas
Grandpa
Mark
Uidy
Littell
James F. Ballard
St. Louis
Grayson CC
F. M. Echols
Ss. H. Montgomery
the Whitewright Bakery
J. M. Young
Dr.Price
Taftee Price Baking Powder Factory
Independence Blvd
Vestal
Q.R. S. Player
Phonograph
South Travis ST
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