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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
14
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a tasteless quinine and iron preparation. It claims it strengthens the system against heat and malaria, relieves weakness, aids nursing mothers and pale children, purges biliousness without vomiting, and boosts appetite, priced at 50 cents.
Legal text states that sowing Johnson grass on another’s land or selling products containing its seed is illegal. The statute, Article 12386, Penal Code 1911, prohibits knowingly and willfully placing Johnson grass or Russian thistles on land not owned by the actor.
The law prohibits selling or giving away oats hay straw seed or grain containing Johnson grass seeds or roots. Anyone ignorant of the contamination is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined 25 to 100 dollars upon conviction.
The text presents Oscar Callaway and Senator William Kent arguing over U S policy toward Mexico. Kent opposes aggressive actions that could harm Americans abroad and warns that constitutional rights do not extend abroad, stressing the risk of property and life when enforcing foreign policy for private gain.
A man named B. W. Hill of Snow Hill North Carolina describes a two month struggle with dysentery. After failing with doctors medicines and weight loss from 145 to 125 pounds he found permanent relief using two bottles of Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. The notice states the product is for sale by all dealers.
The World questions Senator Albert Bacon Fall of New Mexico over his mining interests in Mexico and the proposed resolution that American rights travel with citizens abroad The piece accuses Fall of using public office to boost private Mexican investments and warns of war for personal profit while demanding patriotic duty from others.
H. H. Ladd opens his Indiana silo drawing many locals who praise its looks and utility. Farmers increasingly install silos to preserve stalk and waste as nutritious feed, reducing costs and effort compared to buying feed.
Washington Aug 1 Congressman Callaway works on a banking and currency bill with no central bank or reserve board. It would let banks issue currency under regulated rules and retire it when the emergency passes, mirroring the Scottish system. Several representatives study the proposal seriously.
When the baby endures hot weather and bowel disorders the remedy is McGees Baby Elixir. It reduces feverish condition corrects the stomach and checks looseness. Price 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Sold by Paris Smith.
Fleet Gill, a prosperous farmer near Comanche, loaded two ears of Johnson grass in Hasse and shipped them. Gill reports selling a large amount of the grass this year and notes hay growers can profit more than cotton, suggesting diversification could raise living standards and push cotton prices higher to be affordable.
Another good rain fell Friday evening in the section lasting about two hours. It benefited late feed and cotton materially, easing conditions for crops and farm work. The light but steady precipitation brings value to local agriculture and soil moisture.
Comanche people are told that a single dose of Adlerika a German bowel and stomach remedy made from buckthorn bark glycerine and related components relieves constipation sour stomach or gas instantly and antisepticizes the digestive organs. Druggist M. W. Carroll endorses the formula claiming rapid help and noting it gained fame by curing appendicitis.
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