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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1901
Page
3
City ordinances restrict grave digging and interment without consent and regulate burial costs, disinterment, tomb defacement, and cemetery conduct. The Cameron Water Power and Light Company outlines water rents, usage, fraud penalties, supply limits, and inspection rights for customers.
The text warns that repeated violations of water rules may lead to a warning and possible shut off from premises. Consumers may appeal to the city council for rule compliance determinations. It also states water or plumbing bills unpaid within ten days may result in service being turned off.
Robinson Pool and Brown solicit clients with farm and town properties to sell or trade and offer real estate loans on farms and brick business property. They list trusted loan arrangements, insurance offerings from major companies, and a free fireproof vault for valuables, inviting patronage from customers and friends.
A private hospital advertises treatment for medical and surgical diseases not contagious. It offers nurse care, allows patients to choose physicians, and invites physicians to send cases. Dr E S Ferguson is the business manager. A testimonial praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup in an infant, noting its safety and effectiveness.
An elderly advertisement page touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and other tonics. Promises relief for digestion colds fevers and bloating with prices and multiple sales outlets including Thomas and Moore in Corning Ohio and surrounding towns. Also promotes Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment Whites Vermifuge and Bastard's Snow Liniment with varying prices.
A sales pitch urges customers to replace aging harness sets now to save time money and patience. It warns the old set may be weakening and out of style, and invites readers to call for service or upgrades.
Twenty per cent more doses of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonite than in a bitter chill tonic, as noted in an older advertising blurb.
Mutiny at the new U.S. prison site two miles southeast of Leavenworth Kansas releases 26 convicts and leaves one killed and five gravely wounded. Federal guards pursued through a forest toward Easton with farmers looted for horses and clothing. Warden McCloughry was in Kansas City. Superintendent Hinds compelled to accompany the fleeing group.
From Coopersville Michigan comes news of a pleasant tasting liquid that calms a bad cough before bed and, it is claimed, will soon cure the cough. Mrs. B. Himelburger credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and its unmatched efficacy for coughs and colds. Bottles are sold for 50 cents and 1 dollar at Thomas Moore's drug store with trial bottles free. Rex Dyspepsia Tablets promise relief for indigestion and sour stomach with a money back guarantee through Cameron Drug Co.
A poem classically laments approaching winter as farmers and townsfolk brace for scarce meat and cold. It references the boy, the farmer, school, harvest, and rural life with humorous hyperbole about scarcity and the looming frost. The piece closes with a playful but unfinished line about spring.
Mrs Ida L Rosen of Denver Colorado writes that after years of female troubles and difficult menstruation she took Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and regained health and energy. She reports improved strength to perform duties and urges others to try the remedy with a note to Mrs Pinkham for advice.
An American firm wins a Mexican concession to build a Monterey to Matas Moros railroad. A Burlerson county man jailed ten days and fined fifty dollars for stealing a hag. Agricultural station site debates surface in Henderson or Smith county as Fort Worth hosts location discussions with broad statewide interest. General James Hagan dies in Mobile at eighty. veteran of Mexican War, Hays Texas Rangers, and Confederate brigadier who led a brigade under Wheeler.
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