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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1923
Page
3
A customer testimonial from Caroline Dillard of Peoria Va praises Foley's Honey and Tar for rapid cough relief without opiate ingredients. The ad touts it as the world's best selling cough medicine, with claims to refuse substitutes and wide availability. An accompanying line lists furnished rooms and baby chick feed offerings from nearby Nor rid & Prater.
Radio station WOAF Tyler Texas offers a $65 transferable scholarship in bookkeeping shorthand telegraphy cotton classing radio business administration finance or penmanship at Tyler Commercial College. To win send a four word sentence with each word starting W O A F and provide five youths names and addresses. entry due May 1.
Mr Raford Reid visited the Chief's editor and joined Mrs Hughes of Proctor in lamenting that labor saving devices have not given women real leisure. They note sewing machines and cooking devices create more work and poorer durable cloth, leaving many with little benefit and workers transformed into machine workers.
Purina Startena contains dried buttermilk wheat bran granulated meat oat meal alfalfa flour corn meal linseed flour wheat middlings charcoal and salt. Each element supports growth of the tiny chick's body produced by Comanche Produce.
An entertainment note announces The Flirt showing at the Majestic on Monday and Tuesday. An adjacent ad promotes Liquid Borozone as a powerful healing remedy for flesh wounds with prices of 30c 60c and 1.20 and lists seller 8 P Smith.
W C Davidson writes from Hiner Alabama March 28 1923 reflecting on 25 years in Comanche from July 1885 to 1909. He notes public service, requests readers pass along any bad deeds, mentions near disability but remaining able to live and work, and reports market at Wilson dam with 1500 laborers plus scabs paid.
John D. Osgood, inventor of the thermostat, died at his Haverhill home after a long illness. He previously ran an electrical contracting business in St. Louis. The fragment notes stomach ulcers and cancer as indigestion related, plus a Hamilton Drug Co. Ferrasal product and Porto Rico seed potatoes sold for $1 per bushel, and a local notice for J. B. Rogers, four miles north of Comanche.
An old Classified line advertises a lighthouse keeping apartment for rent with a contact phone 2 or 104. It also promotes White's Cream Vermifuge claiming worm treatment will restore health for children, priced at 35 cents, sold by S. P. Smith.
A humorous verse by Harry Lee Marriner laments rude questions from passersby. The speaker jokes about shaving while lying about eating fish and making peach ice cream to mask daily tasks. Dixon's Studio is noted as where beauties go.
Notice seeks to correct miscredited subscriptions and urges readers who are behind on payments to visit the office to settle accounts. Also advertises housekeeping apartments for rent with contact details, phone 104 or No. 2.
Comanche Produce Company advertises Purina Startena as the finest starting feed for chicks covering the first six weeks of life with all essential nutrients.
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