Pilot Grove News and Local Notes
Dr Birt buys a new automobile. Decoration Day planned at Pilot Grove cemetery next Saturday. Mrs Hattie Garland returns home after visiting relatives in Gunter. Miss Ethel Wilkerson and brother Carl of Oklahoma visit sister Mrs L L Binion. Grayson county Sunday School program led by Bro Edwards with Austin College quartet providing music. Howard McSpedden and Herbert Neathery leave for Denison to join National Guards then to Fort Sam Houston for training. They are praised as ready to defend the flag and will be remembered with pride and concern.
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Howard McSpedden
Herbert Neathery
Denison
National Guards
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Howard
Herbert
Pilot Grove
Jefferson Highway Association Meeting Called
Denison May 9 1917 President W N King of the Texas division calls a meeting of the state association at Denison May 24 at 9 00 am to transact business elect officers and join the sociability run leaving Winnipeg May 14 and reaching Denison at 3 30 pm the same day ten Texas counties Grayson Fannin Hunt Hopkins Franklin Titus Camp Upshur Gregg Harrison are represented seven delegates per county. Counties urged to send full auto representation and escort the official party as part of the sociability run.
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Denison
W.N. King
Texas
Jefferson Highway Association
State Association
Jefferson Highway
Winnipeg
Canada
Grayson
Fannin
Hunt
Hopkins
Franklin
Titus
Camp
Upshur
Gregg
Harrison
Anthem of the Free and the Eagle’s Watch
Poem excerpt praising liberty and national duty attributed to Nora Evelyn. It envisions citizens rallying to defend freedom, the eagle guarding homes, and victory over tyranny, ending with a reverent call to extend the golden rule.
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Sons of Freedom
Nora Evelyn
Cotton Belt East and West bound timetable snippet
A fragmentary railroad time table notes east and west bound schedules for the Cotton Belt line with trains numbered 208 and a 3:30 p m departure, including a morning 9 50 a m listing.
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Inorg
Elves and Friends Attend Moonlit Ball in Fairy Wood
Nancy recalls a tale of Elves Fairies Gnomes and Mr Giant hosting a moonlit ball. The Giant arrives slowly to avoid stepping on guests while Fairies wear silvery costumes and starry wands. Brownies and Gnomes perform in playful attire as dancing begins. Shooting stars headline the night with the Moon and Crickets providing light.
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Nancy
Daddy
Mr. Giant
Mr. Moon
Effie Elf
Peter Gnome
Cotton Belt Leads Health Campaign Against Malaria
The Cotton Belt Railroad joins Uncle Sam in a systematic malaria fight along its lines. The firm funds health work with U S Health Department planers on site in Texas. Rail cars and facilities will be screened to keep mosquitos out, improving living and working conditions for employees and communities.
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St Louis Mo
Cotton Belt
Sam
United States Health Department of Washington
Texas
United States
J. A. le Prince
Panama
L. L. Williams
U. S. Department
Tyler
Lemolac replaces calomel as a pleasant liquid remedy
Advertised as a safe substitute for calomel Lemolac is a pleasant tasting liquid medicine that does not gripe sicken salivate or cause time off work It is sold with a guarantee to please all family members including babies and is priced at 50 cents with money back if not satisfied.
Calomel Recall Cited By Trade Directory
Isfactory by Dyer Jones and all five druggists. P. S. If you forget the name spell calomel backward.
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Dyer & Jones
P. S
Americans and humor raise political stakes in satire
A man with a superior air says Americans lack humor, while the reply notes they can laugh but often misplace laughter by electing a joke to office. The exchange satirizes public gullibility and political naivety with biting wit.
Bleacher Banter at Ballgame Notes
A playful exchange questions why places at baseball games are called the bleachers. The response jokes that fans on them lose hope when the home team falls behind.
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Pilot Grove News
Jefferson Highway Association Meeting
East
Lizard
Effie
Elf
Sun and
Dallas News
Luther Smith & Son
T. H. Truett
Lemolac
Washington, D. C
STH
VIA
A.m
John F. Lehane
Whitewright
J. F. Lilley
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