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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1919
Page
2
A vintage advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel causes cramps and salivation and promises quicker, gentler liver action with no sickness. The ad urges a small dose and a money-back guarantee if unsatisfied.
A Comanche County letter urges donations to fund state Democratic petitions for Bailey Bailey plank declarations. It requests $1 contributions, notes funds kept at Comanche National Bank, and calls for prompt replies. A regional anthrax outbreak prompt quarantines and animal-culling guidance follows from the Livestock Sanitary Commission with vaccination cautions.
Vandyke and Mrs Sid Bowers visit from Saturday to Monday. Zella Edwards returns from Longview after three weeks visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Johnson and son of Gustine visit at Mrs Edwards. McDaniel and sons and Wialey Brewer trip to Desdemona. Rev Carter to preach next Saturday and Sunday, Sunday school urged. Mrs Clemons of Gustine visits sister Mrs Will Edwards. Martin of Comanche visits Uncle Tom Hammonds. Baptists’ association at Downing this week. Myrtle Merrett visits her parents. Homer Starr visiting Comanche. Ollie and Wiley McDaniel attend party near Gum Springs. Ballard’s Snow Liniment advertised for pain relief. Sold by Paris Smith.
An old newspaper ad claims catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and cannot be cured by local remedies. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional cure and offers $100 for any untreatable case, urging readers to buy from F. S. Cheney & Co., Toledo.
The Comanche County Court declares a quarantine after the discovery of anthrax among stock. The order names Assistant State Veterinarian and the Sheriff’s office as contacts for aid and enforces burial or burning of carcasses for public protection.
Health guidance urges buyers to demand Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross. Fraudulent pills found in Brooklyn were mainly talcum powder. Check both package and tablet for the Bayer Cross and follow proper directions and doses.
County Health Officer A. J. Gray issues a quarantine restricting stock within a mapped territory along the Frisco railway and adjacent land boundaries. The County Judge may appoint guards to enforce the order, and residents are urged to comply to maintain the restriction.
Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces of Orchard White to make a quarter pint of freckle and tan lotion. Use daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles sunburn windburn and tan. Harmless and cheap, available from grocers and drugstores.
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