Growing Children Need Liver Aid and Care
Health warning urges protection of children from internal and external contamination. It promotes Carswell's Liver Aid as a vegetable liquid remedy to prevent liver related illness in children and notes a 50 cent large bottle at M. W. Carroll's with a money back guarantee. A Detroit incident reports one year old Leo Hutton dying after a fit of anger during chocolate face cleaning.
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Carswell
M. W. Carroll’s
Detroit
Mich
Leo Hutton
Free medical advice offered to sick women by Lydia E Pinkham
An advertisement invites women with female illnesses to contact the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for confidential advice from a woman reader. It promises privacy, long experience, and no charge beyond goodwill. It also promotes a free 800 page Text Book available by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Snow Liniment Helps Back and Side Pain Relief
A rubbing application of Ballard's Snow Liniment eases pain in the side or back when you straighten up. It relaxes contracted muscles and restores ordinary motion. Prices are 25¢ 50¢ and 1.00 per bottle. Sold by Paris Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballard
Paris Smith
Railway Extension Bill to Palestine Dallas Introduced
Senator Town send introduces a bill to extend the state railway from Palestine to Dallas with an appropriation of six hundred thousand dollars. Senator Hudspeth adds a bill to raise state rangers by ten thousand dollars. The court of criminal appeals affirms a thirteen year sentence for E J McCaskey of Houston for robbing a man of ten cents.
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Austin
Townsend
Palestine
Dallas
Hudspeth
Court of Criminal Appeals
E. J. McCaskey
Houston
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Returns Malaria and Builds Up System
The Old Standard tonic Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic strengthens the body, drives out malaria, enriches the blood. Suitable for adults and children. Price 50 cents.
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Grove
France approves relief for absinthe dealers purchase
The Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to reimburse liquor dealers up to 3 million dollars for taxes paid and stocks on hand. The government will take over the stock and destroy it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Classified Ad Spur Four Thousand Readers
Readers respond to a single 25 cent classified ad in the Chief-Exponent urging land for rent seed sales or land purchases. Advertisers aim to reach 2200 families on the same day, showing the power of local classifieds for quick results.
Youth is slain in garage in Waxahachie
A speech by Rev. A C Parker of the Christian Church averted a lynching this morning and gave police information that may lead to arrests in Dallas or Fort Worth of two or more negroes suspected in the brutal murder of Jack Jones a white 22 year old killed last night in Waxahachie
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Waxahachie
A. C. Parker
The
Christian Church
Dallas
Fort Worth
Jack Jones
Dodson's Liver Tone Offered as Calomel Substitute
An advertisement urges replacing calomel with Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable liquid that supposedly cleanses the liver without sickness or salivation. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury harming bones and promises relief from biliousness constipation sluggishness headaches and sour stomach.
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Dodson
Cal
Chuck Pitts Courier Offers Prompt General Delivery Service
Chuck Pitts advertises trunks and baggage transport with round trip service and guaranteed price. Piggybacked lines promise satisfaction and prompt handling with contact by phone numbers 337 and 149 and a caution not to call number 3.
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Chuck Pitts
Inspector's 25000 Mile Quest to Guam Post Office
Post office inspector E P Smith undertakes a 25000 mile journey to Guam to inspect a distant small post office that pays its postmaster 125 dollars annually. The trip aims to evaluate operations and pay scale in far off Guam.
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San Francisco
Guam
E. P. Smith
Tasteless Tonic as General Tonic with Quinine and Iron
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is promoted as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and strengthen the whole system for 50 cents.
Governor proclaims March 10 18 as statewide clean-up day
Governor Ferguson via Health Officer Collins proclaims Saturday March 10 as clean-up day across Texas. The directive targets health officers city and county authorities women’s clubs teachers associations and heads of all educational institutions. The observance spans the state’s major cities and communities.
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Ferguson
Collins
Texas
Wonderful kidney relief attributed to Swamp-Root remedy
Testimonial from H. W. Spinks of Camp Hill Alabama describing severe kidney pain prior to treatment with Lithia Water and Swamp-Root. After using one and a half bottles he reports passing gravel and no further symptoms. Letter dated August 16 1909 notarized by A B Lee Justice of the Peace.
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H. W. Spinks
Camp Hill
Ala
A. B. Lee
Justice of Peace
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. J
Bingham, N. Y
Vollintine guilty gets five years
Fort Worth jurors found J. T. Vollintine guilty of manslaughter in the killing of O. W. Batton and sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary. Vollintine asked his lawyer what he must do next and was told he would have to go to jail that night. He expressed satisfaction with his actions in defense of his home.
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Fort Worth
J. T. Vollintine
O. W. Batton
Vollintine
John W. Baskin
Ferguson Issues Most Sweeping Quarantine in Texas
Governor Ferguson issued an exclusion order preventing entry of livestock fodder fowls and all domestic animals from any state Canada or Mexico into Texas amid foot and mouth disease in the most sweeping quarantine yet. Cotton seed hay straw chickens and hides from other states are also indefinitely barred.
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Austin
Texas
Ferguson
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Union
Canada
Mexico
Cascarets Promised to Cleanse Stomach and Bowels
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a quick remedy for constipation and biliousness, claiming use tonight yields a morning cleanse of the stomach liver and bowels. It urges adults and children to use the 10 cent box and notes healthier bowels and cheerfulness. A second item mentions a Pennsylvania hotel keeper reporting beer fed to chickens increased egg yield with 13 hens laying 291 eggs last month.
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Philadelphia
No Shortage of Horses in This Country
The Carriage Builders' National Association cites official data showing 24,000,000 horses in the United States as of January 1, 1915. Even with large exports and wartime purchases, there would be no serious shortage of work horses, since selling a quarter of a million would be less than one percent of total stock.
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United States
National Association
Local Delivery Ad Announces Prices and Ownership Change
A terse notice from Bob Carver promotes general delivery services with a 15 cent round trip clothes haul. He announces purchasing Chuck Pitts and states Pitts cannot return to work for two years, noting Pitts did return. The message closes with Carver’s sign-off.
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Chuck Pitts
Bob Carver
Mortgage Loan Notice Seeks County Reps in Georgia
Money to Loan. Applications for loans from $100 to $10 000 on improved and unimproved town property and farm lands with 5 percent interest. Interest annually or semi annually. Terms one to ten years. Requires description location and valuation of security and improvements. Southern Office Southwestern Mortgage Loan Assn Fourth National Bank Bid Atlanta Ga. The 26 29.
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Southern Office
Southwestern Mortgage Loan Assn
Fourth National Bank Bid
Atlanta
Herb ine for indigestion relieves pain and expels matter
The advertisement promotes HERBINE as a remedy for indigestion. It claims pain relief within a few minutes and that fermented matter is moved into the bowels and expelled. Sold by Paris Smith at 50e.
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Paris Smith
Wealthy Women Open Public Kitchen for the Poor
In New York two of the city’s richest women opened a public kitchen offering freshly cooked food at cost for take home use by the poor. The venture aims to aid relief efforts and provide affordable meals to those in need.
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New York
Red Pepper Plaster And Horehound Syrup Combos
A chest plaster to draw inflammation and horehound syrup to ease chest tightness are offered as a two for one deal. The dollar size horehound syrup includes a free porous plaster with each bottle. Sold by Paris Smith.
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Herrick
Ballada
Paris Smith
Special Teachers Examination Notice in Comanche County
A notice informs readers of a special examination for State Certificates for teachers on the first three days of April. The Commissioners Court designates The First National Bank of Comanche as depository for two years to cash all vouchers at month end if reports and vouchers meet legal requirements. Most Respectfully, W. D. Jenkins.
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Commissioners’ Court
First National Bank of
Comanche
Texas
W. D. Jenkins
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Manche, Tex
T. M.pulliam
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Comanche Mercantile Company
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Ian
Cardus
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Clifton Mills
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Scott
Nature
Schrrangyoe
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