My maternal Great-Grandfather keeps popping up in newly-uploaded papers online.
On September 13, 1940 a Lamar County newspaper in Texas published this fuzzy photo of Edgar Willhelm standing next to the offspring of a well-known symbol of the Democratic Party. He had just turned 70 years old, and he and his wife, Lena, were living on "Sylvan Pattonville Road" according to the 1940 Federal Census. From The Paris News, page 8, see the clipping along with the whole page:
BTW, make mine a 1941 Plymouth in cherry red!
My Great-Grands were living in Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas, as evidenced by this mention of "E. Willhelm" in a church newsletter published January 19, 1909. Reading this description of West Texas reminds me of the old greeting, "Hey, how are you? Tell me the price of corn." (Yes, I honestly heard that expression as a kid. It was said with a laugh)
Archived newspapers from Paris, Texas have several "For Sale" want ads from Ed Willhelm for firewood and vegetable produce. This ad below is from a town outside of Denton, Texas called Decatur and was published in June 1924. I've seen several of these uh, offers over the years, but this ad is a new discovery. But I've long been told that Edgar wrote religious pamphlets and enjoyed debating Scripture.
And one more ad Ed placed in The Bartlett Tribune & News, Bartlett, Texas, Vol. 38, No. 43, Ed. 1, Friday, June 6, 1924:
If anything, my small collection of Ed's name in newspapers has helped me construct a timeline of his many home addresses. (The adjective "peripatetic" has also been used with my Indian Territory pioneer ancestor, Sam Ackley). I've now learned that he and Lena were living outside of Houston, in Seabrook in 1924. I wonder if he had to part with any ten-spots to these "Sunday isn't Sabbath" advertisements.
What did YOUR Great-Grandfather do for fun?