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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1913
Page
9
Mrs Arthur Wentworth Bal Balford, the western Audubonist, praised Congress for banning the import of all feathers except ostrich and domestic fowl. She argued feathers are cruel and vanity driven, recounting a tale of an opera-hall aigrette prompting a costly exchange between wearer and observer.
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The article notes rapid silo adoption in Nebraska from 1909 to 1910 with 40 to 350 silos and 1200 sold this year. It highlights stave silos as cheapest and easiest to erect, preserving ensilage better and reducing costs from two dollars to six or eight dollars per ton.
Mrs Lop Mangel of Mogadore Ohio credits three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles and avoiding surgery. The ad touts the remedy as a standard treatment for displacements inflammation ulcers and irregularities and invites women to write for confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
An advertisement urges readers with torpid liver weak digestion or constipation to purify liver stomach and bowels this season. It promotes Herb ine as the right remedy priced at 0 sold by Paris Smith.
The paper imposes space charges for obituaries cards of thanks and resolutions of respect. After a notice of death is published it becomes family news only and the policy will be strictly followed.
Governor designated November 5 and 6 as Good Road Days to test the Missouri plan for road building in Texas. Citizens urged to suspend business, join the effort, and donate labor to repair and improve county roads for winter hauling and local development.
Mrs. S C Burton of Houston writes that after three weeks in bed with womanly trouble Cardui helped her regain health and 15 pounds. The letter promotes Cardui as a purely vegetable tonic and urges readers to start treatment, noting 50 years of use and a home treatment booklet from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
Mrs. Kate Heckman of Springfield Ohio credits Vinol with restoring her health after alleged consumption and ulcers on the lung. She says Vinol soothes inflamed surfaces stimulates appetite strengthens digestion and helps ward off pulmonary disease. The Hamilton Drug Co Comanche Texas offers a money back guarantee.
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