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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
8
J. M. Cochran D D 8 dentists in Comanche Texas operate from an office over F M Bank with phone numbers 418 and 456 for appointments and inquiries.
Local notes list multiple Brownwood, Comanche, Fort Worth and Dallas residents visiting relatives, attending business trips, and traveling to the Cotton Palace in Waco or Little Rock. Names include Geo L Sullivan, Mrs Allen, J A Butter, Will Irvin, Dan Clark, T M Gore, and many others with destinations such as Dallas Fort Worth Brownwood Comanche Gustine and Muskogee Oklahoma.
A parade of visits and returns marks the Comanche social scene. Residents travel to Whitesboro Fort Worth and Venus for work hunting and family ties, with locals hosting relatives from Anson Stephenville and Dallas while attending church and Cotton Palace events.
Advice to tailor a diet by age and occupation to keep bowels regular. When feeling overfull or constipated, take one Chamberlain's Tablet.
Local feed supplier Atwood Brothers offers bran hay and mixed feed with a claim of slightly better service. The brief notice promotes their offerings and invites customers to compare price and quality with competitors.
Advertiser J. C. Henderson lists lump coal for six dollars, with contact by phone number 2 for orders.
Hard-working men and women are prone to kidney liver and bowel disorders. Pricky Ash Bitters is advertised as the work er's friend keeping these organs sound and vigorous. Price is $1.25 per bottle with Wm. Reese Co. as special agents.
Higginbotham's offers a cash discount on a large stock of Buggies for the next weeks. The deal emphasizes a temporary price cut to clear inventory.
John L. Brown reports a hen laid two fully developed eggs in one setting a large egg with a tiny egg floating in the whites. The writer suggests plates of prophecy and jokes about doubling production while pondering what the two in one might mean, joking about Alsace-Lorraine annexation by France.
Regulate the bowels when they fail to move properly. Herbine is described as an admirable regulator that helps the liver and stomach and restores strength and buoyancy. Price 50 cents. Sold by S. P. Smith.
Bring your prescriptions to Carroll's Drug Store for best prices and purest drugs. Three registered pharmacists in charge of the prescription department.
Mattress re making service promises to refurbish old mats for 1.50 with a guarantee. Atwood Brothers advertise the redeployment of worn bedding to be as good as new.
J Tamaaine Ponta and Mrs Davis hosted guests Saturday and Sunday with four Misses Norwoods. J R Horner and Mrs Winnie Munn dined with niece Mrs Martha Isham. W I Davis and John Parkman of Hasse visited. Jennie King and Miss Norwood visited Briar Grove. Theodore Woolsey of Proctor spent weekend with friends. Tennie Hassey of the Church community visited Lucille King. Horner lost a horse last week. Thompson entertained youth with a singing day. Horner sold several head of cattle. The school shows progress under Jennie King. Also an advertisement for B Lard's Horehound Syrup.
Marriage licenses issued list A. P. Bingham and Miss Pea Andress. Also promotes Prickly Bitters with claims of kidney benefits at $1.25 per bottle via Wm. Co. special agents as a promotional blurb.
An upbeat promotion urges readers to take Cascarets nightly to liven the liver and clean the bowels. It claims relief from headaches biliousness foul breath coated tongue sallowness stomach gas and hints at improving overall energy with a fresh morning feeling. It also touts Cascarets as a laxative for children.
Burks Mercantile Co offers a fruit cake mixture with dates figs citron orange peel and almonds and walnuts. The ad emphasizes ready to bake blends and kitchen essentials for holiday baking.
A wartime recruiting scene in a Tit-Bits item shows a 17 year old in a recruitment office. The sergeant questions him about dying for the country, and the boy replies he is joining to make a German die for him.
The item catalog lists Bran Shorts and various feed products including wheat middlings and corn meal. It notes availability for farmers and mentions delivery options. Prices are not specified in readable text.
An advertisement offers stoves and furniture from Burks Mercantite Co at best prices. It promises brand new furniture and stove pits with fittings and hints at affordable options for those who cannot afford to destroy existing items.
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