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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1913
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic promoting quinine and iron. It asserts effectiveness against malaria chills fever weakness debility loss of appetite and biliousness with claims of energizing nursing mothers and pale children. It promises safety and guaranteed quality from the local druggist and lists a 50 cent price.
Northbound and southbound service times listed for trains No.4 No.31 No.6 No.5 along the Cotton Belt in Frisco. Notable departures include 9 50 a m and 4 35 a m with morning and afternoon slots across routes No.1 No.2 No.11 No.4.
The article notes peanuts becoming more used as human food and for peanut butter. It highlights the oil’s rising demand and suggests cotton oil interests promote peanuts during cotton shortages. W. E. Lowe of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank is praised for pushing peanut cultivation in De Leon, helping farmers gain banking capital.
The DeLeon trade area received heavy rain last Sunday and night benefiting crops. The Union Warehouse Co bought the Hampton lot and moved the Hampton house. Professor E L Howell left Graham for a principal post, praised as a future Texas leader. Despite reports of drought damage, De Leon expects a moderate crop, with bales short but offset by higher cotton prices and farmer diligence.
Lamkin’s local Baptist congregation decided to erect a church at the site with a projected cost around 41,500 dollars. Pastor Rev. W. M. Scott supports the project and is expected to lead the successful undertaking.
W R Beattie of the St Louis Southwestern Railway visited to promote an exhibit car that will tour the North and East showing Comanche county products. The car, built in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, will visit towns for one to two days, inviting northern farmers to settle along Cotton Belt routes and boosting farm crops and real estate through coordinated exhibits and ads.
An advertisement touts Dodsons Liver Tone as a safe laxative and liver tonic to replace calomel. It promises a money back guarantee if relief is not provided and highlights benefits for constipation biliousness sour stomach and torpid liver with a 50 cent large bottle price.
Residents of Comanche and Comanche county discuss a potential Comanche Day at the Waco Cotton Palace this fall. If plans succeed a cheap rate would bring a large group for a coordinated excursion and county advertisement.
The Comanche City School Board awarded the grammar school project to Charlie Oates of Stephenville as the lowest bidder at 10500 dollars. Other bids included A J Olsen 11165, Gage Brothers 11600, and Warren and Son 11300. The brick building will have eight classrooms two halls two toilet rooms a principal room and a library. Construction starts after bonds are placed with occupancy hoped by January 1 1914 on the West Ward grounds.
An old reliable DR PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL advertises a survival dressing for pain relief and healing. Not a liniment. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 options.
147 acres located 244 miles north of Gustine offers 60 acres cultivated and 87 acres of grass and timber. Includes a new two room house, good well and wind mill, tank, and additional 40 acres of fine usable land to develop into a home site ready for cultivation.
Auction description lists 76 acres three miles south of Hasse and eight miles east of Comanche with 50 acres in cultivation. Includes an average residence, barns, a good well, and 68 acres six miles south of Comanche with 40 acres cultivated two thirds extra fine valley land and balance sandy land suitable for trucking. includes a four room house, fine well water, a good orchard and berries. A fine little home offered.
A 164 acre farm lies 6 miles north of Comanche with 110 acres in fine cultivation. It features two sets of improvements, two good wells, a 12 ft wind mill and a tank. The seller touts it as one of the best farms in Comanche county.
An ad by Neely Harris Cunningham Ham Co promises close prices and long terms on farm sales, accepting young horses or mules as part payment though First Mondays aren’t considered. A separate item reports a hay ride for teachers to the Country Club with several attendees listed by name. An herbal worm remedy ad offers White's Cream Vermifuge at 25 cents per bottle sold by Paris Smith.
Sam W. Switzer has been named Government Gin Reporter and began duties last Monday. He must visit every gin in the county twice monthly during the cotton season, counting bales gained and filing required reports with the government.
A Toledo firm lists F. J. Cheney as a trustworthy partner after fifteen years of known business dealings. The National Bank of Commerce signs the statement, asserting Cheney’s firm is financially able to fulfill obligations.
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