Moonlight schools and Mrs Stewart's illiteracy drive
Five years after a Kentucky county superintendent started moonlight schools to teach reading and writing to illiterates, the program expanded statewide. Under Mrs Cora W Stewart leadership, literacy rose from a county to a state movement with 17 states adopting similar efforts. The piece asks what Milam county can do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora W. Stewart
Rowan County
Kentucky
Chicago
Stewart
Milam County
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root touted for kidney relief
An 1909 testimonial from Lafayette Indiana claims Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root dissolved gravel stones in the kidney and bladder. The letter notes a Soldier's Home inmate passed numerous stones after use and invites readers to request a sample by mailing ten cents to Binghampton New York with a booklet on kidney health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Bryan
Swamp Root
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghampton
N. Y
Cameron Herald
Traveling Salesman Mr Will Templeton Seen in Cameron
Former Cameron citizen now a traveling salesman from Waco was in Cameron this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Templeton
Cameron
Waco
Promotions at Citizens National Bank
At a stockholders meeting Citizens National Bank elected Oxsheer Smith as president and Dave Wilson as cashier. H F Smith Sr retired as president. Hilly Stedman became assistant cashier. Directors named include T S Henderson Oxsheer Smith E Vogel sang Jr H F Smith Jr and D L Wilson. A 10 percent dividend was declared on capital stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens National Bank
H. F. Smith
Oxsheer Smith
Dave Wilson
Hilly Stedman
T. S. Henderson
E. Vogelsang Jr
H. F. Smith Jr
D. L. Wilson
Pain in back and kidneys cured by Dean's Kidney Pills
J M Mitchell a Cameron painter reports three years of dull back pains blamed on turpentine fumes. After using Dean's Kidney Pills from Geo A Thomas & Sons Drug Store his pains vanished and his kidneys regulated. Price fifty cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sponsors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Cameron
J. M. Mitchell
Painter
N. Bowie & W. Main Sts
Geo. A. Thomas & Son
Mitchell
Foster-Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N. Y
Local visitors from Gause visit city Tuesday
Messrs A J Pheades S M Dixon and Lee Robertson and I Emmett Ely of Gause were in the city Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
A. J. Pheades
S. M. Dixon
Lee Robertson
I Emmett Ely
Gause
Sure Signs of a Torpid Liver
A health note urges the liver as the source of dizziness headaches billiousness and constipation. It promotes Po-do-lax as a quick acting remedy that aids liver discharge of poison tones the system and also helps the stomach. Available for 50 cents at druggists.
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Kafhr
Colm
Marble Yard
Cameron, Texas
Cameron State Bank
Texas
City of Cameron
Geo. T. Graves
The
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Binghampton, N. Y
the Herald
Citizens Nat's. Bank
Nature
T Neil
RoWne
T. P. A. and
Gunter Hotel
San Antonio
Percy Tyrrell
Mgr
Tyson
Davis Co
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