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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
7
A letter describes health remedies for grippe and pneumonia, requests SCOTT'S sent to a relative serving, local cattle and grocery notices, and a Navy recruit’s daily schedule at the Oakland shipyard. John Reese writes of training days, meals, drills, and occasional entertainments, with reflections on life and letters home.
Minnie Phil of Tex reports years of severe pain and weakness then improved after using Cardui, noting rapid relief by the second bottle and lasting health for two years. She praises the remedy and recommends it to others.
An old advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsia as a fast harmless remedy for indigestion dyspepsia and gas stomach upset. It claims rapid relief when acidity causes sourness belching and nausea and urges keeping a large fifty cent case on hand for misbehaving meals.
Local residents attend church and Sunday singing. Visitors include Mrs Rosa Swanner Mace of Proc tor and Mr Louis George of Round Grove. Mentions of Mt Airy visitors, Mae Pointer Ebenezer, Iva Barnes, and a growing peanut harvest. Letter from Waldo Ark reports rainfall, crop conditions, and weevil impact with subscription request.
Surgeons urge prompt first treatment for cuts burns and bruises with an efficient antiseptic. Borozone is pitched as the ideal antiseptic and healing agent for use on man or beast. Prices listed 25c 50c 1.00 and 1.50 sold by H. P. Smith.
An advertisement urges readers to look ten years younger by darkening gray hair with La Creole Hair Dressing priced at $1.00. The pitch emphasizes transformative effect and affordable cost for a beauty solution popular in its era.
An advertisement touts Prompt Relief for colds coughs la grippe and headaches with Laxative Quinidine Tablets noting no effect on head or stomach. It urges winter supply at 25 cents and argues against Thanksgiving turkey to save food for the army. Honey Grove Sig.
Special prices advertised for harness and leather goods at Burks Mercantile Co. Prescription services highlighted at Warrell's Drug Store with three registered pharmacists in charge of the prescription department.
Sunday services featured Rev. Randolph Clark of Granbury at the Christian church. Numerous locals and guests traveled between Gatesville Crawford Lamkin Baggett and Carlton for visits. The Mothers' Club improved school grounds with see-sawe benches as Bree and children promote Grove's Tonic for malaria and vitality.
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