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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1929
Page
4
August Payitk departed Monday for a two week stay at Mineral Wells seeking a climate change and mineral waters to restore health. The traveler is reported in a run-down condition but hopes the trip will improve his strength.
Paramount casting searched for girls with long hair for a Stair of Sand sequence. They nearly rewrote the song to A Girl With Long Hair is Hard to Find as applicants filled the quota. The dance hall scene features bustle era styling with Willsee Beery Jean Arthur and Chester Conklin in a Zane Grey desert tale filmed at Rex Studio. Charles Edgin Johnson visited family in San Marcos.
The Douglas MacLean Christie production The Cinemation Kid shown at the Rex Theatre this week features MacLean as Clarence the typewriter salesman in a melodramatic plot about underworld threats and a carnal rival. Other cast includes Francia McDonald Lorraine Eddy and William Davidson. Nearby, residents discuss cotton crop prospects as Humble Oil drills its thirteenth test well near Altair.
Rate for advertising in this column is 712 cents per line for each insertion. Payable in cash with order. Freeing afonea8 counted as a full line. Star parasite remover promises to rid lies and mites and improve health with money back guarantee. Calvert Drug Co. offers product and Mrs. F Odem advertises apartment rentals. phone Nee 261.
Rock Island residents record visits and travels including James and Oliver Jacobsen in Houston, Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Roper in Tulia, family absences of Rev. J. O. Yount, Mrs. Charles Wegenhoff and son Victor Charles, Mrs. Rabb returning to Winchester, Miss Zenobia Burns and Zenobia with J. R. Burns, Wayne Schroeder of Houston, and many others visiting Houston, San Antonio, Winchester, Winch ester, Halletts ville, Ball ington, and Garwood with neighbors and relatives this week.
A Payette County sheriff traced an alleged whiskey operation to a cellar behind a home near Edhenvare. Officers found no mash or active still in the initial search but uncovered a concealed cellar with empty barrels and a loose soil area where a still might have been hidden. The case involved warrants served on a Mr. Medler and a search of multiple outbuildings as the investigation continued.
An old advertisement extols Chill Tonic as a cure for malaria bilious intermittent and malarial fevers. It claims Skin pallor improves and appetite increases, promoting the product from J. C. Mendenhall Lyonsville Indiana a practitioner since 1873.
An odd ad invites readers to mail a cutout to Mendenhall Company in Eyagsville Indiana for a free full sized bottle. It requests the reader print their name and appears as a promotional gimmick with imperfect spelling.
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