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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1926
Page
4
Advert says Dodson's Liver Tone cures biliousness and digestive distress. It claims Bud Evans recovered from severe illness after one night, with rapid relief and renewed energy. The copy pushes a money back guarantee if no improvement, noting easy, gripe-free action and refund by the druggist.
A box of Grove open-trate salve is included with every bottle of Hayes Healing Honey for chest and throat relief. The salve is applied to the chest and throat to ease cold or croup symptoms in children.
A garbled collage lists for sale and trade items and local business references. It includes mentions of Alemite gasculators for gasoline, Davis Service Station fuel products and lubrication, Eastman Kodak film at Ulory's, Graham bread at J Burger and A Foeh stores, and various notices about city paving in Eagle Lake Texas. Included are prices, addresses, and instructions for purchasing extra copies of the Headlight and other services.
An advertisement touts LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN as a specially pared syrup laxative for habitual constipation. It promises prompt relief and regains regular action when taken regularly for 14 to 21 days, stating it stimulates and regulates digestion and is pleasant to take.
The city lays out costs for pavement and curb in front of properties on Post Office Street including Mra Susilo Frasar and Lyle Phillips with frontage details. Railroads Southern Pacific and Sapta Fe are cited to pay substantial sums for crossings and paving along Main Lake and Commerce streets, plus a large payment as their portion on Post Office Street. Mayor R T Whitmoreland and City officials announce the allocations.
A speaker recalls a sly thrill from pounding threats and a biting fear when noise of knocking hits. The lines reflect distrust of strangers and the sense that danger hides behind routine encounters among four familiar people and many on the street near the steeple.
Miss Mary Burns of Catoron, a former Eagle Lake schools teacher, arrived Saturday evening for a week long visit to Mrs. W. EL Mc Ree.
A colorful portrait of Valencia in its slogan as a paradise of love and commerce. The National Geographic bulletin highlights new bridges sewers a central market and an enduring Moorish influence. It details the Tribunals de las Aguas where peasants act as judges, without lawyers or formal robes, delivering swift community justice rooted in irrigation rights and local tradition.
A Chicago Daily News instance shows how a jury foreman’s slip of the tongue freed a highwayman amid a not guilty misstatement. Though corrected and polled, the judge ruled the error irremediable, prompting calls for common sense to curb legal technicalities that shield criminals and threaten society.
Messrs John Tanner and James Gemmer of Gemmer and Tanner gravel firm visited Dusineas last Saturday, with headquarters in La Houston and Columbus.
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