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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
9
The piece argues that rising costs hit farmers for inputs while consumer Coca Cola prices stay stable. It notes wheat, cotton, wool, meat, sugar and machinery all rise, squeezing farm profits, and urges farmers to share higher costs with other growers and rely on staples like Coca Cola which remains unchanged in price at fountains and bottles.
A Tucson correspondent writes Will Carpenter of the Comanche Chief from Arizona praising the landscape and climate. He notes green foliage year round, drought cycles, rain expected in July, dry riverbeds, and local farming of corn oats wheat kaffir milo maize vegetables and some cabbage using dry farming and irrigation. He closes with best wishes from W P Capehart.
Comanche resident P Helmecke recounts years of kidney pain and sleepless nights. After using Doan's Kidney Pills, back pain subsides and general distress eases. He reiterates continued trust in the remedy, noting ongoing satisfaction and price of 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY advocates the same product.
Wylie Horn of Ft Worth visits home folks this week. Curtis Jackson from Oklahoma came to be at his mother's bedside. Vada Magness visited her grandmother last week. Tom Nabers went to Rock Bluff. R T Stevens hosted a Saturday night party. A L Fisher left for New Mexico to visit relatives. Several attended singing at Salem and Ocie Belt started a singing school at Arbor Springs. Health is good.
A vintage advertisement touts La Creole Hair Dressing as the solution for gray streaks and coarse hair, promising restored beauty and lustre to withered tresses. The copy emphasizes transforming dull, harsh hair into a glossy look.
Cotton Grove residents report visits from J A Kennedy and Parker families from Menard. Thelma Cade travels to DeLeon. Hill Lambreath works near Lamkin. Orah Cleere is ill. Roe visits Lewis near Harmony. singing at Will Beene’s Sunday. Mattie Duncan visits Comanche. Christwell and Matthews visit Odessa Johnson. Oak Valley singing well attended. next shown on first Sunday. Ice cream supper near Sidney. Bud Arnold and Thelma Cade attend Sidney singing.
Advertised remedy claims rheumatism is driven from the body by purifying the blood with cod liver oil. The product is described as nature’s blood maker and strength builder, aiding organs to expel impurities and relieve suffering, with a warning against alcoholic substitutes.
An old advertisement touts Chill Tonic promising to cure chills and fever within a week. It guarantees satisfaction with a full refund if not effective after a proper trial, offered at 50 cents by dealers.
Three young girls aged 7, 5, and 6 months died when a tree struck by lightning sheltered them near Mount Salem, twenty two miles north of Tyler while they hid with siblings. another child was badly shocked but regained consciousness today. The Estes family is from Tyler. Mrs. Estes was visiting relatives.
W. B. Starling of this place sells a large can of cream to the creamery for 22 cents. He plans to market about 1000 fine honey jars soon and expects to sell his turkeys at roughly 13 cents per pound. No hardship is reported at the Starling home.
An old advertising line promotes Siete pi Diarrhoea Cordial as a medicine kept in the chest for fifty years of constant use. Price listed at 25 and 50 cents.
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