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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1920
Page
7
A vintage ad urges readers to use Prickly Ash Bitters at first signs of indigestion constipation and kidney trouble claiming it wards off sickness and saves money. It promotes keeping a bottle at home with price listed as 1.50 per bottle and credits Hamilton Drug Co and Wim Reese Co as agents.
Classified notice indicates Duroe Jersey P C and Wiesendanger signatures offered for sale. Listing provides limited details and no contact information in the readable text.
Messrs N N Durham and Geo W Simmons bought the Wm Reese Company drug business in Comanche after 29 years. They have installed new showcases and a cold drink fountain, improving the store and promising a full line of drugs and sundries while maintaining high service standards.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautifier at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and may white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless and never irritates.
Purifies and enriches blood with iron and quinine. Pleasant to take, even for children. Widely trusted for malaria and body building for over thirty five years. Sold in drug stores at 60 cents per bottle.
An old advertisement touts Prickly Ash Bitters as a system purifier for a blue mood and torpid liver. It claims to cleanse the stomach aid digestion dispel gas and bring back strength and vim with a bottle priced at $1.50 and promoted by Hamilton Drag Co. and Wm. Reese Co. special agents.
The notice markets Aspirin as Bayer tablets proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It urges acceptance of an unbroken Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. It notes 12 tablet tins cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists. Aspizin is described as Bayer’s monoa cetic acid ester compound.
A Comanche resident W D Martin testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved a disordered kidney condition and a lame back. He recommends the medicine to anyone needing kidney relief. Also promoted are Prickly Ash Bitters for appetite and digestion with agents Hamilton Drug Co and Wi Breese Drug Co offering special sales.
Hard-working men face kidney liver and bowel disorders and Prickly Ash Bitters is promoted as keeping vital organs in sound condition. Price listed as $1.25 per bottle.
Damp chilly weather boosts interest in Ballard's Snow Liniment for rheumatic aches. Paris Smith advertises. Duroc-Jersey pigs for sale listed by E C Wiesendanger.
Comanche families visit Mr Starr's home Sunday to Tuesday. Ike Booker moves to Sidney. Ollie and Wiley McDan ils away this week. Ethel and Johnnie Reese hosted a party Friday. Mrs West and children returned from De Jean to visit sister May McCallum. Stella and Edna McMillan hosted a party last Saturday. Merle, Ina Dingus, and Jimma Tullis attended Mt Pleasant church Sunday night. Nora and Lorene Starr hosted a singing last Sunday. Willie Loudermilk of Downing and Garrett of Sweetwater attended the Starrs singing. Samuels went to De Leon. Eula Harris, Midget Bowers, and Jesse Harris attended Suez singing Sunday night. Next Sunday's church and Sunday school are planned.
Pape farmers express hope that boll weevil impacts will not shift cotton plans, with talk of a big cotton crop. Local residents John Davis, Will Wingfield, and families share visits to Brown County and Marlin. Judgments of travel include Judge Hanson’s return from Marlin and several business trips to Proctor and Comanche. A dance at Mike Roache’s and barn projects from Brinson and Hanson are noted along with various family visits.
The column reports recent pleasant weather, church and singing plans for next Sunday, and multiple social visits. It notes Frank Godfrey and wife visiting Mr. Frank Stewart, Ruth Laughlin visiting her parents, Elender Snell returning to Dallas, E M Bear and wife with Mercury's Creek relatives, a local boy party at Wilhelm’s, Elsie Tupin and Ruth Laughlin visiting Bear family, Bellah Anderson returning from Temple after her husband's operation, with him said to be recovering well.
For indigestion constipation biliousness this 50 cent bottle of Lax FOS with Pepsin offers a pleasant liquid laxative option. Marketed by Paris Medicine Co, makers of Laxative Bromo Quinine and Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
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