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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
7
War work shifts priorities as silk and wool blends replace full fabrics. Draped skirts return with peg-top silhouettes while low military heels replace high French styles for daily wear. Straight hair remains popular with high coiffeurs and new jewelry designs on display.
Comanche residents endorse Doan's Kidney Pills for long standing kidney backache and weakness. Mrs. W. L. Robertson reports back pain relief and restored energy after use. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. misrg. Buffalo New York.
Health remains good with recent light showers. Visitors include J S Bradberry and family from Snyder with Mrs J W Reed, and R E Bradbury and family from Mullin. Miss Annie Muller returned from Comanche. Local election passed quietly with W A Johnson J W Woods G E Johnson Mrs Franklin C J Lee J W Carwile receiving majorities. Sam Edgar Reid plan to go south to pick cotton. Cora Jackson of Comanche visiting Cottrells.
A fragment recounts a sister's illness in which doctors planned gall bladder surgery but she improved after using Mayr's remedy, enabling her to walk to church in three weeks. A later note mentions Lamkin School Board meeting on September 16 1918 and sealed bids for the district depository to be sent to the board president in Lamkin Texas.
An advertisement touts La Creole Hair Dressing for natural gray cover up. It promises a simple home solution with price one dollar and emphasizes improving hair appearance for women.
Dallas hosts a District 6 30 31 meeting as S 8S Frazier outlines new Federal licenses for gins handling two tons of seed or more. Prices for seed and ginning rates are set to curb evasion, with enforcement and penalties emphasized. Dr. Brown seeks data on gin fires linked to stall electricity for USDA investigation.
A 19th century health note warns mothers to use California Syrup of Figs to ease a sick child and avoid counterfeits. The column also shares local updates on religious services, travel, school matters, and residents going to Virginia, Texas, and Fort Worth for work and study.
Surgeons advise first treatment for cuts burns and wounds. An efficient antiseptic applied promptly prevents infection and promotes immediate healing. BoroZone marketed for man or chest use as the ideal antiseptic and healing agent sold by S P Smith with prices 25¢ 50¢ $1.00 and $1.50.
A defeated candidate catalogs his losses from the campaign noting long canvassing hours, miles walked, handshakes, and various charitable acts. He cheekily adds personal admissions and farcical counts to tally the campaign's toll, ending with the defeat.
Squeeze juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, add three ounces of orchard white, shake well to make a quarter pint lemon skin whitener. Massage daily into face neck arms and hands to reduce freckles tan sallowness redness and roughness, leaving skin smooth and clear. Harmless and effective according to the ad.
An old advertisement promotes Herbine as a malaria cure or preventive. It claims yawniness daytime dullness and chills signal illness, stating the medicine will expel impurities, strengthen the liver, and cleanse the bowels. Price 50e, sold by Pek Smith.
The passage notes that while German forces allowed Allied capture of roughly half their ammunition dumps, they have not managed to force Allied forces into seizing their rental dumps.
Mrs Blanche Bowers of Indiana Pa credits Chamberlain's Tablets with a breakthrough in digestion. After years of limited eating and failed remedies she tried the product and reports her digestion is now fine. The testimonial appears in an advertisement highlighting the remedy's effectiveness.
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