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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
7
A collage of medical claims and quack advertisements shows testimonials for Smith's Sure Kidney Cure and Pine's Cure, plus warnings and health tips. The catalog includes eye water for ailments, teething syrup, and malaria tonics, with stray proverbs and trivial observations interspersed.
Reports detail multiple fatalities from fights near Italy in Ellis County and Beaumonts area, with Patrick and Dick Fennel named. Beaumont Improvement Company expands capital to 100000. A Woodmen of the World picnic draws 400 to Denton. Royalties, rail taxes, and land sales mark ongoing economic activity in Texas towns.
A playful line suggests money buys bold color and bold living as a man spends green to render towns in deep red tones. The quip links wealth to vivid transformation and lively nightlife without naming people or places.
A noted philanthropist plans to donate his fortune to charities, promising substantial good. The ad promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Oxidine as remedies, and notes an American eclipse photo study in Sumatra. It mentions a 1902 American tour by Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark.
Candy makers report the richer profits come from fancy candies sold in ornamental boxes, with the presentation often attracting buyers more than the contents themselves.
To join the German army a man must swim and the best swimmers can cross a stream several hundred yards wide while carrying clothing a rifle and ammunition.
Citizens who insult police, cab drivers or streetcar conductors face imprisonment and fines as public officers. The report notes a drop in temperature after a period of instability.
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