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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1916
Page
7
An old promotional piece warns calomel as dangerous mercury causing bone necrosis and illness. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative that cleanses the liver and bowels without salivation, with a money back guarantee and claims of broad family benefit.
The plum or peach curculio is an insect often mistaken for the boll weevil. It feeds on foliage and blossoms at first, then the female cuts a semicircular opening in the skin of young fruit to lay eggs. The hatching grub burrows to the fruit center and causes the fruit to drop.
County Agent D F Eaton outlines prevention for peach pests and brown rot. Use a beetle trapping sweep with arsenate spray and lime to protect foliage, time sprays as fruit drops, and repeat ten days later. Apply self boiled lime sulfur for brown rot and cleanse fallen fruit to reduce spread.
Census Bureau report by Director Sam L. Rogers lists bales ginned in 1915 and 1914 for Coleman and surrounding counties including Callahan Comanche Concho McCulloch Runnels Taylor with figures showing declines and totals for the two crop years. The preliminary county totals were released March 20.
A Comanche reader, G S Walker, attests Doan's Kidney Pills regulate kidney activity and ease back pain. He buys the remedy at M W Carroll's drug store and recommends Doan's as the kidney remedy to others. The ad notes the price as 50 cents and identifies Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York as the producers.
Upward of 300 delegates and visitors from nearly every Texas city gathered for a two day Texas Good Roads association convention held in Taylor. The event drew representatives from towns across the state to discuss road improvements and infrastructure.
advertisement touts Dr Porters Antiseptic Healing Oil as able to cure old sores and long standing conditions. Claims relief of pain and healing despite duration. Pitches 25 cents, 50 cents, and one dollar sizes.
Notary attests to ownership and management details for The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent published in Comanche Texas for April 1 1916. It lists publisher The Comanche Publishing Co editor W T H Carpenter managing editor W H Carpenter and multiple owners including W I Carpenter J R Eanes Geo L Sullivan G A Cunningham L T Cunningham S P Smith E W Harris T J Williams D H Cunningham Mrs S J Thomas and others in Comanche and Austin. Also includes a civil suit notice involving Tilford Scott et al. in Comanche County with land description and court dates.
The document shows that no bond holders mortgagees or other security holders owning 1 percent or more exist for the listed securities. The affidavit is sworn and subscribed on March 28 1916 before Notary Public Jnc D Waring in Comanche County Texas with witnesses D C and J R Moore of Corpus Christi Texas.
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