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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
8
Ad extols Dadson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel claiming calomel causes salivation and sickness. Warns readers calomel today brings nausea tomorrow and urges try Liver Tone for a healthy, energetic start without side effects.
Mrs W W Greer is honored at a seven o clock dinner hosted by Mrs Tom Denson in Hefley Heights. The table features green and red decorations a cut glass centerpiece red roses vine and red berries with red bird place cards. Guests include Mesdames Denson Henderson Mc Intosh Cheeves Triggs Kemp Sprinkel and others. A four course menu and Edison grand opera program followed.
A comparison shows 1894 cotton at 4 cents and corn at 13 cents a bushel, needing 3 1 4 pounds of cotton per bushel. With current prices 52 3 pounds buy a bushel, implying cotton could be 61 cents per pound. A motion urges sending a petition to Congressman Rufus Hardy to seek a government price floor of 35 cents per pound for cotton.
Leland Denson hosted a social dance assisted by Camer ons Young Men's Club with chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Will Stafford. Mrs. J. D. Lewis provided piano music and guests enjoyed cherry ice cream to close the evening. Denson was praised as an ideal host and invited to repeat the hospitality.
A Dunbar Molasses bulletin from New Orleans states two can sizes will be used this season No 10 one gallon and No 5 half gallon to conserve tin and labor in support of the war effort. Canners and packers are instructed to limit production to these two standard sizes.
Mrs. R. H. McIntosh hosted a complimentary dinner at her N Houston Ave home on Thursday for Mrs. W W Greer who will soon move to Austin. Guests included Mrs. T S Henderson Mrs B W Cheeves Mrs C W Lawrence Mrs W W Greer and daughter Miss Lola. Friends in Cameron show how much they will be missed.
G. W. Simmons reports the government has seized all country yarn stock and that Red Cross control over supplies is limited while authorities complete surveys. He pledges the Red Cross will distribute yarn to chapters as soon as the government finalizes its program.
Red Cross headquarters issues a statement on yarn knitting supplies and asks workers to be patient. The note from A Flinn, chairman, suggests future availability of knitting yarn may arrive.
Mr and Mrs J W Phillips extend thanks to the Ben Arnold and Walker's Creek communities for aid during their siege of typhoid fever and the death of their young son. They express gratitude and invoke blessings from Him above.
Mike asks about the fountain and the Soda Girl replies it is a soda fountain, explaining it plainly with a pitiful look. The exchange reads as a simple dialogue snippet in a humorous or lighthearted voice.
Rev H R MacFadyen returned Friday night from Presbytery in Austin and Sunday morning gave an account of the assembly. He highlighted missionary work among soldiers in Waco by Dr Caldwell's church and stressed its impact.
W. A. Beal, a prominent farmer from Jones Prairie, visited Cameron on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Johnson of Temple spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cheeves.
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