Early Days in Texas at Old Settlers Meeting
Joe Sappington recalls Texas progress from kerosene lamps to autos, telephones and X rays at a Hamilton gathering in June 1915. He contrasts frontier doctors and camp meetings with modern medicine, transport, and gadgets, noting progress and loss of old institutions.
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Old Settlers
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Bill Davis
Houston
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Polly Wiggers
Wild Cat Creek
Litttle
Anti-Saloon League
Woman's Suffrage
Dreuths
Kansas Grasshopper
Boll Weevil
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Theodore Roosevelt
Husband
Young Husband
Youthville
Mary Jones
Old Pete
Mary
Pete
Cave Creek
Boysburg
Thought She Could Not Live Ends With Reflective Past Echoes
A Unionville Missouri reader recounts a grueling bout with illness and nervous collapse, credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for recovery, and reflects on aging, religion, politics, and nostalgic journeys through youth towns and old attractions in a lengthy, wandering reminiscence.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Martha Seavey
Missouri
Lydia L. Pinkham
Eutopia
When Hot Weather Oppresses and Aids Digestion
An advertisement from The Wm. Reese Co. promotes Foley Cathartic Tablets as ideal for indigestion and constipation. It claims heat worsens dullness but stools regularity helps, offering relief for bloated heavy feelings during heat.
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