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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1907
Page
6
The essay praises local option advances in Kentucky South Carolina and Alabama while noting a curb on C O D liquor shipments and express company resistance. Judge Muse in Dallas rejected liquor groups injunction against carriers and the piece ends with a quip about donkey rhetoric and preacher independence.
A local option victory was declared in Rains County after last Saturday’s election by a twenty vote margin. The piece notes South Carolina’s shift away from state liquor dispensaries to local option and mentions Governor Ansel’s quick action to wind up dispensaries. It frames the liquor trade as a corrupting political force and cites broader anti liquor sentiment nationwide.
Prohibition secured about 200 vote plurality in Matagorda County last Saturday election. The county has had local option for two years and antis circulated the petition for the election. The vote passed peacefully and the prohibition supporters celebrate the victory, noting the previous 140 vote margin two years ago and the larger margin this year.
An advertisement urges readers with blood disorders to make a tonic called The Vegetable Treatment using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Kergon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. It claims gentle action and quick relief for rheumatism and chronic backache, and notes ingredients are inexpensive from pharmacies. The piece ends with a quip about earthquakes caused by internal tides, not political eloquence.
An advertisement claims there is no case of cough or cold leading to pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar, which supposedly stops coughing and breaks up a cold quickly. It urges refusing imitators and promotes the genuine product in a yellow package from Geo. A. Thomas & Sons.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid undigested food poisons by using Dr Caldwell's laxative syrup with pepsin. It promises immediate relief from head ache constipation and biliousness and notes Cameron Drug Co sells it for 50c and 1.00 with a money back guarantee.
A vintage drugstore pitch touts Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea for nervous fatigue improved digestion and refreshed sleep. Sold as tea or tablets for 35 cents with instruction to ask your druggist.
Public notice of a four week citation by publication command issued to the Milam County Sheriff for D. B. Yow to appear April 15, 1907 in Cameron. It covers a contract dispute over land in the F Rodriguez grant with a vendor lien and multiple notes. residence of defendant unknown. seeks rescission or foreclosure and writ of possession.
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