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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1950
Page
13
Philadelphia March 7. Dr Eldridge Lyon Eliason aged 70 a surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and a onetime national inter collegiate gymnastics champion died Monday.
An old advertisement touts Doan's Pills as a mild diuretic to ease backache, fatigue, headaches, and dizziness from kidney strain and minor bladder irritation. It claims 50 years of use and promotes Doan's as help for cleansing the kidney tubes and filters.
Corpus Christi Texas Mrs D D Smithey says her husband the barber used Baker's Hair Tonic and her dandruff and itchy scalp were removed. She praises Baker's Hair Tonic and Lathernist Shampoo and notes a money back guarantee at local drug stores and shops.
Rope halters donated for the calf scramble by J. E. Acklin Company and Roy Dalby. The show plans, judges, financing worries, and support from area officials, clubs, and merchants amid Coliseum issues and upcoming poultry auctions.
Georgetown March 7 The Masaryk birthday anniversary was observed in Southwestern University in an assembly. Prof Eduard Taborsky of the University of Texas spoke on Thomas Masaryk and Free Czechoslovakia. The a cappella choir performed works including the Czech National Anthem.
In 1914 about 12,400,000 net tons, representing 50 percent of global sea going merchant tonnage, were registered in Britain. This shows Britain's dominant maritime position at the outbreak of World War I.
Charles L Hairston, named crew leader for Williamson County 1950 census, has been granted leave as manager of the Chamber of Commerce for the census period.
William W. Boddie of the Texas Manufacturers' Association urged a Taylor town hall or community leveling project at a Taylor meeting. Jerry Pavlik, Rev. Stephen Brown, Ray Lewis, Mayor R. F. Kollman, and TMA leaders endorsed holding a community level program within 30 to 40 days.
Cotton supplies more than three fourths of all fiber consumption in the United States, reflecting its dominant role in domestic textile production and end uses.
Anna Andoniadon of Salonica Greece thanks Sylvia Smith of Taylor High School for a World Christmas Festival package. A Greek reader J A Athas Candy Jim translated the letter and noted Anna’s interest in Texas customs. The translation aided Sylvia in replying to Anna about the Future Homemaking project.
Caroline Starr Balestier of Brattleboro Vermont is identified as the American wife of author Rudyard Kipling.
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