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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1915
Page
6
A period advertises California Syrup of Figs as a safe fruit laxative for children and adults. It claims to relieve constipation by cleansing the liver and bowels within hours, notes a pleasant taste, and warns against counterfeit syrups and imitation brands.
Petrograd reports that in the six months after vodka was prohibited authorities found 1,800 secret distilleries. Many were used to refine shellac and convert methylated spirits into drinkable alcohol, widening illicit production.
Mrs E F Thomas of Logansport Indiana praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds and croup in children saying it provides prompt relief with every use. She recommends it to neighbors and friends and notes she gives it to her own children when suffering from croup. For sale by all dealers.
The Education Bureau and the National Child Labor Committee state that reducing child labor accelerates literacy. They argue illiteracy and exploitation are two sides of the same issue, urging reforms to protect children’s future over present gains.
The remedy does not suppress a cough but loosens and relieves it. It aids expectoration and opens secretions helping the system throw off a cold. It counters any tendency of a cold to develop pneumonia. It contains no opium or narcotics and may be given to a child as confidently as to an adult. For sale by all dealers.
Dallas reports Albert L. Reed describes Runnels County in the Let Texas Feed Itself campaign. Farmers raised more than enough feed, exported surplus poultry and butter sales reached hundreds of dollars, and prize forage crops boosted profits per acre far above county land value. County used Texas Industrial Congress to improve forage crops. four prizes were won, including a large feterita yield.
Invigorating to the pale and sickly Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic drives out malaria enriches the blood and builds up the system. A true tonic for adults and children.
Austin Feb 12 The state penitentiary system owned 864845.44 on Jan 1 1915 and lost 561506.53 in 1914. The House investigating committee cites about 83 million appropriated for four years, with revenues exceeding by farms and factories.
A child with intestinal worms is described as handicapped in growth but improves after a few doses of WHITE'S CREAM VERMIFUGE. The product is said to destroy and expel worms with immediate improvement and thriving, priced at 25e per bottle and sold by Paris Smith.
Texas banks are asked to boost hog numbers locally as Texas spends 52 million dollars yearly on pork. The Texas Bankers association agricultural committee, with Fort Worth Stockyards, has circulated the Pecos plan to bankers statewide. Pecos Chamber and packers helped finance broad sow consignments, inspiring similar efforts in other counties.
Local advertisement by J D Mason offering a corn and bunion cure with a money back guarantee. Promises complete cure in 3 to 5 days and invites visits to his shop.
Notice to Farmers advertises wood feed stuff hogs for breeding and any farm grown items in the Chief Exponent. It costs 25 cents and ads in the Chief Exponent get results.
Five cents sent to Kal ey & Co. Chicago to receive Foley's Honey and Tar Compound trial package for coughs colds croup bronchial and lagrippe coughs plus Adey Kidney Pills. The Wim. Reese Co. sells Singer Sewing Machines with easy terms and payments in produce feed hogs wood etc. Call at the Singer Office Comanche Texas S. J. Miles.
Local ad notes payments offered for eggs butter poultry and furs by Floyd Carpenter, located two doors south of Atwood's second hand store.
Eggs from full blood black Morp? chickens 1.25 for 15 shipped by parcel post to any county area. Seller T R Lacy Sidney Texas. (22-25)
Gradual health decline in a Council Bluffs dealer improves after Peruna use. A Wisconsin resident credits Peruna with preventing colds for seven months and restoring health. The ad notes Peruna tablets as an option and discusses livestock feeding benefits for soil and economy.
In a Collier’s Weekly excerpt the Atlantic City mayor is quoted as proposing to advertise for two hundred fifty live-wire chorus girls fifty prize fighters and as many first-class gamblers to revive the resort. The piece questions whether he has a daughter and suggests she should be the first employed if one exists.
Bold hair care ad promotes Knowlton's Danderine to banish dandruff and restore lustrous hair. Claims one application doubles beauty, dissolves dandruff, prevents itching and hair loss, and improves texture. Suggests a 25 cent bottle from drug stores and toilet counters with quick results.
The piece argues livestock enables use of hillsides slopes terraced land and poorly drained areas that cannot grow crops. Animals convert otherwise wasted farm products into finished goods and act as machines turning raw materials into marketable outputs.
Doan's Kidney Pills receive local praise from J. M. Childers of Comanche Texas for rheumatic pain relief with no return attacks years later. His daughter reportedly recovered mobility after four boxes and has not suffered another attack. Advertisement notes price 50 cents at dealers and promotes the Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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