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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
3
A writer’s friend seeks a public post in a Scottish town and tries canvassing councilors. He hires a cab to visit Bisset the treasurer, Maitland the joiner, and Gray the cabman posing as a councilor. Realizes he’s dawdling through the wrong offices and leaves, choosing to let fate decide.
An advertisement by Dr. Shoop promotes Restorative for stomach heart and kidney nerves, offering a free booklet and samples. The piece includes a London Answers anecdote of a boy idle at a factory being told he is too slow to be a soldier after a near‑miss with a hoist shaft, but escaping unharmed.
An advertisement asserts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy contains no opium or narcotics and is safe for children and adults. The notice, attributed to J. W. Peeler, promotes its sale.
Advertises a price raise to nine cents for tuk teys by W R White. Calls customers to bring items and assures highest payment.
Advertises Ballard's Snow Liniment for burns cuts scalds sprains rheumatism and all pains. Claims quick healing and relief from injuries in children. Sold by Saunders Drug Co with prices 25c 50c and a pint bottle.
No case on record of a cough or cold resulting in pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the cough and breaks up the cold quickly. Refuse any but the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in a yellow package. Saunders Drug Co.
Ad claims Foley's Honey and Tar stops coughs and expels colds without opiates. Saunders Drug Co. urges avoiding neglect to prevent pneumonia risk and promote safer lung relief.
An advertisement claims catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. It asserts the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces and refutes quack claims, citing testimonials and a Toledo company.
A promotional note for a cough remedy praised as best on the market for coughs croup and whooping cough. Offered for sale by J. W. Pooler during the season.
The article notes extreme cold eight feet of ice, snow in summer, and dry air allowing skating at 9 degrees. It praises summer Arctic days with brilliant sunrises and sunsets while insisting nights are harsh and monotonous. Travelers suffer burning skin, blistered lips, and thirst from the frigid air.
The Boston Transcript recalls Nightingale’s nighttime ventilation advocacy. It notes early opposition to night air and her persistent argument that night air is the air we breathe at night. Her efforts influenced healthier living and modern approaches to tuberculosis treatment.
Advertises Ballard’s Horehound Syrup as a two month cough remedy sold by Saunders Drug Co. Claims it stops coughs at once and helps with chest cold influenza bronchitis and pulmonary troubles. Priced at 25c 50c and 1.00.
J S Keener & Co of Tomoda North Carolina advertise Chamberlain s Cough Remedy as giving perfect satisfaction and containing no narcotics making it ideal for coughs and croup in children. For sale by J W Peeler.
An informal notice notes a Daly favorite and a Daly weekly Dallas News email aimed at a one year subscription option costing 37 dollars. The item highlights the offer and the intended audience in Dallas.
The Boston Traveler notes that 223 capital offenses once punished by death show how little value was placed on life in old English law and in many jurisdictions before abolition. It cites Edmond Burke on securing Commons assent to death penalties and lists common offenses leading to hanging for minor crimes and various past punishments.
A St Louis railroad man recalls a Mississippi practice of loading freight cars by using a full deck of cards. Black workers follow orders from a white supervisor, each car marked with a card symbol while dice and card games entertain the laborers in the South.
A village talk turns to goats in a public house anecdote about a Christmas purchase and a spring alarm clock that was eaten by a goat. The gray haired patron questions the seasonal joke as the tale unfolds with rustic humor from a London Express note.
A brief note from the St. Paul Pioneer Press describes a person pressing another to inform Jinks of a highly important matter. The speaker insists they will encounter Jinks today to discuss an owed debt.
A dialogue fragment shows Mistress accusing Sarah Jane of injury theft as she falls and breaks her neck. Sydney bulletin notes the darkly comic punishment of deducting the injury from her wives.
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