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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1923
Page
5
An old advertisement touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a pleasant safe cure for coughs and colds, popular with mothers for children, claiming no opiates. It promotes White's Cream Vermitage to expel worms, priced 35 cents, with a trusted water works note for J F Ulery, local watch inspector.
A collage of rural reminiscences describing odd practices of fifty years ago such as shoe shining with Mason's slack, hogs fed with buttermilk, quinine in molasses, and girls modest in public settings. Cappy’s musings juxtapose rustic routines with a humorous anecdote about a knuckleled goat and a runaway motorcar.
Lamar county farmers store pork at Paris municipal abattoir to boost home consumption and storage capacity. Article urges more municipal abattoirs and cold storage plants, arguing they would raise hogs cattle and other meat for settlers and city buyers, with Paris cited as a profitable example.
Orville Wright faced reproach for not challenging the Smithsonian Institute while Tingley was credited as first to fly. A diner taunted him about being taciturn, while Wright replied with his usual calm wit. Separately, Mrs. A. O. Dorion of Freeport visited Detroit to see her mother, Sallie Duke, bedridden for weeks.
At his home, Dr. H. Flingerald of Wagle Lake promotes a regimen aimed at rheumatism kidney bladder troubles and lung throat diseases. He lists a range of ailments including nervousness asthma catarrh and cures for kidney and bladder issues with special attention to chronic diseases. Office phone is 28 and residence 12.
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