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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
9
State game warden, posing as Q R Stevens from Llano, visited Ballinger and filed fourteen charges for violations of game laws. Offenses include hunting license failures, shooting doves out of season, selling fish without licenses, and receiving game from another county, with fines set at ten dollars plus costs totaling $19.70 per case.
Lee L. Chapman of Mapleton Iowa credits Chamberlain's Liniment with ending two years of rheumatism and months of sleepless pain after using it for two months Five years ago. The text also mentions an advertisement line about sales and dealers.
R L Hickey left Wednesday for Comanche to join his brother J M Hickey and others for an auto tour through west and southwest Texas via Brownwood San Angelo Ft. Stockton Pecos City Reeves county Van Horn and other points. They expect to be absent ten or fifteen days.
The notice urges trying Chamberlains Cough Remedy for coughs and colds. It cites its remarkable cures and world wide reputation and states the preparation is for sale by all dealers.
Granbury Texas April 18 Alex Chandler a Negro received a sentence of fourteen years in the penitentiary for criminal assault on a white woman in Erath County April 4. He was transported to Huntsville under guard to begin serving the term to avoid mob violence.
An advertising health claim promotes Herb ine as a tonic to cleanse the liver stomach and bowels and improve complexion. It asserts the product restores a clear pink and white complexion desired by ladies and lists a 50 cent price and Paris Smith as seller.
Mail order houses use Fort Worth as a distributing point to beat parcel post. Freight shipments arrive daily at Fort Worth post office packed with parcels for Texas and the Southwest. Local agents move cases to the post office for redistribution, cluttering the south annex each morning. Postmaster Speer notes the scheme benefits the shippers but strains local space.
Houston residents learned a two month old baby boy was found dead in White Oak Bayou after being placed in an oat sack marked U S and weighed with a rock. The killer, C E Chesire of Liberty County, confessed after ingesting poison to avoid shame over his fourteen year old daughter and the early birth of the child.
Farmers and others distant from a drug store are advised to keep a bottle of Ballard's Snow Liniment at home. It is pitched as a powerful healing and penetrating remedy for cuts wounds sores sprains and rheumatism. Prices 25c 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by Paris Smith.
A detailed schedule for a Layman's Meeting at the First Baptist Church in Gustine Texas from Thursday before the first Sunday in May 1914 through Sunday night. It lists devotions preaching sessions and topics by Wes ton Edwin Palmer W T Curtis T J Mooney Eugene Fisher J F Milton Lena Robinson Amelia Scott Roy Ditto H Watson Will Robinson Hill Huddleston Jeff H Pritchard and Thos H Taylor along with timing and participants.
An advertisement touts McGee’s Baby Elixir as a genuine stomach and bowel remedy for infants. It claims quick action, purity, wholesomeness, and pleasant taste with bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents and sold by Paris Smith.
A Hamilton man described as a queer chap receives typical monthly statements with no offense. He treats credit as a favor, pays less the disputable $4, and quietly resolves errors when receipts show payment. He avoids anger, returns friendly relations, and lets disputes be settled calmly.
Advice stresses plumbing in houses as analogy for the body with digestion likened to plumbing and typhoid risk. Recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for quick relief and notes availability from all dealers.
An advertisement touts Croxone as a cure for sleep disturbing bladder weakness backache and rheumatism in the elderly claiming it cleanses kidney filters dissolves uric acid and speeds waste removal. It promises immediate effect and lifelong safety with a money back guarantee from any first class druggist.
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