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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1895
Page
8
An advertisement touts Furnitur e and Parlor furniture in sets and pieces. It lists mantels, whatnots, music stands, rockers, chairs, couches, beds, wardrobes, dressers, dining and kitchen furniture, safes, bookcases, office desks, and more. Tin shop services include roofing and galvanizing.
Wholesale and retail dealers list heavy hardware shelving crockery lamps tinware rope wind mills pumps buggies and harness carriages carts and vehicles. Reapers mowers plows cultivators John Deere and standard brands plus carpenters tools blacksmith gunners farming tools and related supplies.
A complete Undertaking department provides coffins and burial cases, double metallic hermetically sealed and beautifully trimmed. I have two hearses, one white and one black, always ready for service.
Sanitary plumbing and fittings offered with full service. Wrought iron and lead pipe bath tubs marble slabs laboratory boiler systems rubber hose sprinkling fixtures. Estimates for residences and buildings. Claims to beat all Central Texas competition due to large stock and heavy sales. Sporting goods include shotguns rifles sixshooters cartridges shells fishing gear.
A historical note describes the Ladies Cemetery Association formed with 16 charter members growing to 100, dues 25 cents monthly, and city oversight starting October 184. It covers expenses for sexton wages, fence erection, water pipe trenching, planned drives, planting, and future improvements. It mentions upcoming elections, and a miscellany of local news and literary items from 1895.
The piece notes picnics and camp meetings as dew rises with a camp meeting starting Friday night before the fourth Sunday led by Rev. Mr. Chives and his son from Houston. It reports an excellent corn crop and good cotton, some sickness with doctors traveling, and better business activity and an anticipated strong fall trade locally.
Sheriff John H. Broker advertises a Milam County land sale on the Garrett W. Smith case after a July 1895 levy, listing the 100 acre tract and sale at the Cameron courthouse. Also notes a staffing ad, and obituaries for W. A. Herter and Jas. Brandon with ages and locales.
Samuel Pollock of Briceland recounts an epidemic of dysentery last summer. After one dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the illness abated. before half a bottle was used he was well and urges others to try it as the best remedy, sold by J. F. Thompson.
Notice of the pharmaceutical board for the 20th judicial district meeting in Hearne on July 23 1895 to examine applicants for certificate compound medicines. Also a testimonial note promoting Thompson's Sea Worm Killer claiming cheap effective cure for screw worms with claims by local citizens and sale by J F Thompson.
L. D. Fuller opens a first class barber shop beside John G. Neher's saddle shop promising polite, competent service. The ad guarantees good order, scalp treatments for exzuma and dandruff, and courteous treatment for all customers.
The advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped lips chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It claims it cures piles with no pay required if not satisfied and lists a price of 25 cents per box.
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