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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
6
An advertisement claims people can gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It asserts the product activates digestion so patients absorb ordinary food, enabling rapid flesh gain.
A lecture urges women to master cooking and housekeeping as essential life skills. It argues health and happiness depend on diet and that home management is a respectable business requiring practical knowledge and self sufficiency. Aimed at wives mothers and other home makers.
A writer from Alvin Texas argues against multiple hot meals daily. They suggest balancing health comfort and economy and question three hot meals unless labor can be divided. They propose ready dainties like Aunt Je mima's buttercakes and prepared cereals as alternatives.
A household note shares a plant stand project by John Wells a six by one and a half foot table on castors with a galvanized tin pan filled with sand to drain excess water. The sand creates a stable moist environment for Amarillas Begonias Fuschias Geraniums Callas Oleanders and other plants. The writer mentions Dinah a stout front door and Kansas winds as humorous context.
A brief description from Princeton Kansas touts a simple method that uses no water beyond dampening a rag to complete cleaning work, emphasizing its efficiency and ease.
Advertisement touts Bicklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for itching piles claiming it has cured thousands. It also markets the salve for injuries pains or bodily eruptions with a 25 cent box price and a cure guarantee sold by Thomas & Moore.
Good season and crop prospects amid stock water scarcity and cotton seed shortages priced around 25 dollars per ton. Showers aid grass and stock. anticipate a children s day at the church on the first Sunday in May. Local teachers praised, with Miss Lada Chandler favored for next year. Local ministers preached, and Ed Flinn buys yearlings for 8 to 9 dollars. A Hillsboro inventor touts a cotton chopper to ride on a cultivator, with caveats about rag weed and cotton stalk detection.
Hungary seeks to block all live plants fresh fruit and packing materials from the United States amid fears of insect and fungus diseases. The decree targets any origin in America to prevent pests entering the empire.
Milam County offers rich black land at 20 to 30 dollars per acre far below Texas prices. Jones Cox & Cox list prime tracts including 110 acres with 90 cultivated, two houses, pasture, and fencing near town with easy terms at 225 dollars per acre. Inquiries and listings invited by Cameron Texas firm for buyers or sellers seeking bargains.
The advertisement promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers as a reliable gentle laxative. It claims the pills are pure ly vegetable and easy to take while assisting bowel action and strengthening the body.
The April Cosmopolitan issue features Rafford Pike papers on What Women Like in Men and What Men Like in Women, plus A Clever Emperor and a Confederation of Nations with photos. Major General Witzhugh Lee plans fifty lectures on War and Peace in the United States and Cuba, with a Y M C A star course in Waco on April 17. Also ads for Ballard Horehound Syrup and Herbine digestive remedy sold by Thomas & Moore.
A compact schedule of excursion rates and sale dates across numerous 1902 events. It lists Imperial Shrine San Francisco trips, Knights of Pythias in San Francisco and Waco, State Conventions in Texas, and national gatherings in Ashville Louisville Dallas San Antonio and more with sale dates and final return limits. Includes Homeseekers to California and Texas events, with agents Cavanagh and Keenan noted for inquiries.
Excursion tickets from 1 and G points at one third rates to World Famous Hot Wells Natural Sanatorium and Health Resort. Low excursion rates will be made for the above occasions.
LaLuiz Harris of Salem New Jersey describes a severe fall attack of muscular rheumatism. After trying prescriptions and rheumatic care he used Chamberlains Pain Balm from an advertisement in the South Jerseyman. Two applications brought improvement and one bottle completed his recovery. Sold by Thomas and Moore.
Johnson H. Bickett offers broom corn seed in Cameron at 1.50 dollars per bushel. The notice appears as a local classified seed ad from a Cameron store.
The tablet form is easier and more pleasant to take, milder in effect, and more reliable, cleansing and invigorating the stomach while leaving bowels natural. pills are harsh and often cause constipation. Available from Thomas & Moore with local grocers and services noted.
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