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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
5
J R Eanes and Company offers buying selling and exchange services for real estate. The firm handles property transfers and market listings, assisting clients in transactions and consulting on local market conditions.
In hot weather Prickly Ash Bitters is promoted as a stomach liver and bowel purifier. Users reportedly endure heat better and feel less fatigued at night. Wm. Reese Co. Special Agents.
Rain remains needed in the community as Miss Annie Sims stays with ill Mrs. Nellie Sims. Visitors include Mr. W. B. McClendon and wife to Mrs. Waynie Smith in Midway. Ola Dukes with Ava Poynor, M. M. Poynor visits near Comanche. W. M. Poynor and son go to Lowensha for flour. A church visit at Custer. Ava Poynor and Gray Mason wed Sunday evening. Best wishes for a long life together.
A pastor urges Sunday attendance and lively church involvement to double the school’s strength and the teachers' effectiveness. He notes Edison’s phonograph as a joke about recording sermons, then stresses the congregation’s role in the church’s success and welcomes all to the home-like church led by Samuel H. Austin.
It is not easy to cure this disease but in most cases relief is possible by taking Chamberlain's Tablets and following the printed directions on the package.
An advertisement claims La Creole Hair Dressing can darken gray hair to look ten years younger. The product is priced at $1.00 and is marketed to readers seeking youthfulness.
A Baptist meeting has begun at Jones Crossing with Rev. Hughes and Rev. Prichard leading. Joe Hodges and family from Weatherford visited W. H. Hodges, Fay Wilson improves after illness, Lena Hanson attends Bethel meeting, and local youths Hettie and Albert Hodges join the crowd. Wes Pecan and Jeff Chandler visited John Hoover on Sunday.
John M. Crabtree a Dallas merchant recounts gaining 34 pounds after taking Tanlac over 18 months. Once bedridden with catarrh stomach indigestion and weight loss to 118 pounds he reports weight rise to 152 pounds and a return to normal life. He endorses Tanlac and cites improved sleep appetite and vitality. Stores listing the medicine and distributors follow.
The Christian Co operative Meeting held at Hamilton Texas July 28 29 was well attended by members from Hamilton Hico Dublin Stephenville Gustine Lamkin and Comanche. The meeting inspired constructive work and D N Shipman reports progress among pastorless churches sent by the cooperation movement. Attendees included R F Holloway J R Eanes Robert Holloway and Samuel H Austin of Comanche.
Fragmentary text records Aeon agreeing on cuts and wounds view referenced as TI TREAT. No clear context or outcome is provided.
An old advertisement asserts that constipation is the start of many diseases and promotes HERBINE to remove bowels accumulations and restore prime condition. It notes the price at 50c and sales by S. P. Smith.
Higginbothams advertises daily hog purchases with the note that hogs are coming in plentifully and buyers are ready. Farmers are urged to bring hogs any day.
Notice of a sheriff sale issued by Comanche County District Court under an order dated July 10 1917. Property described as 120 acres in the James Hamilton survey with metes and bounds, located in Comanche Texas. Sale scheduled for August 7 1914? court house in Comanche. Parties include J E Miller Sheriff and claimants M E Hampton and others. Costs of suit.
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