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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
2
Advice column from Terrell urging kindness and avoiding gossip roasts. It links speaking ill to social harm and contrasts noisy tavern roasts with absent targets. The piece argues for hygienic, tidy backyards to prevent disease and promote civic cleanliness, recommending drains, grass, flowers, and hidden refuse barrels.
A garbled line hints at a theatrical or musical moment titled This Your Backyard. The fragment suggests a prompt for audience engagement or a brisk musical number, with emphasis on timing and a call to action for immediate participation or applause.
Thorn dale Thorn speaks in poetic lines about vast seas where waves drift unanchored toward the west, and ships never again appear on the horizon, creating a haunting, timeless maritime vision.
Sunday morning service at 10 includes organ pieces by Rosenkrans and Cra dle Song Dreyschack. Hymns Home Sweet Home My Mother's Songs Oh How I Love Jesus. Vocal solos and choirs led by Mrs H F Saunders Miss Mary Henderson and others. talks by Mrs Henderson J M Ralston Rev J W Milton and others.
A stormy Monday morning in Thorndale shrouded by grief as Ernst Kieschnick, a wealthy farmer with holdings in Lee County and Bishop, is found dead with a pistol by his side. He was 53, survived by his wife, eight children, and a large extended family, with no clear cause for the act. The community mourns the loss of a respected citizen and caring father.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy to keep bowel movement regular and cleanse the stomach liver and kidneys. It claims relief superior to other medicines and cites a testimonial from C E Hatfield of Chicago. Prices 25 cents at local druggists.
Cameron Cotton Oil Company stocks Mebane seed to aid replanting after potential cotton crop failure. Seed sourced from Daugherty and Bailey Turner farms near Gabriel are cleaned and reganned. Mill will not ship seed for $40 to $50 per ton and will not fill orders until local farmers are supplied. seed sold here at $35 per ton while available.
An advertisement proclaims relief from backaches nervousness dizziness headaches and rheumatic pain through kidney cures. It cites A S Moseley of Cameron Texas praising Dean's Kidney Pills and notes a 50 cent price at dealers with the claim of curing the kidney cause.
Cheeves Brothers have let the contract to J A Walston for remodeling their square store. Groundwork for a 10 foot extension begins, creating one of the city’s largest mercantile buildings with plate glass front and expansive show windows. The old Racket store wall will be removed, a steel post supported ceiling installed, and interiors revamped to house a larger stock.
A fragment notes a year ago three bulls or bovine subjects with whooping cough and references a remedy, though details are unclear and context is incomplete.
All Saints Episcopal Church will hold Sunday services at 8 p m due to the rector's absence in Belton Sunday morning. Bible class and Sunday School proceed as usual at 7:30 p m.
The Baylor University Glee Club of twenty five members will render an interesting musical program in the High School Auditorium on Thursday evening May 7 at 8 30 o clock. Admission for students is 25 cents and 35 cents for others.
Mr Arthur Slone of Buckholts visited his wife in Cameron Sanitarium where she had an operation. Attending physicians say she has improved rapidly and will be up and about soon. The Slone family is prominent in Milam county with ties to W H Slone and Laura Williamson of Cameron. Friends look forward to their return to Buckholts.
Mrs F H Trubus of Springville New York describes six years of a torpid liver and disordered digestion eased by Chamberlain's Vabiets sold by dealers. The testimonial notes quick action and relief.
The Senior's Glee Club will render a musical program Friday evening May 15 in the High School Auditorium. Admission is 25 cents for all attendees.
The Oil Mill reports letters and messages from Waco and other McLennan county areas plus Thorndale Gause and southern towns seeking seed. They offer $50 per ton but have refused to release stock, keeping seed for local residents.
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