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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1929
Page
6
A fragment from the Eagle Lake Advertizer notes the editor’s boastful stance and warns against inflated self pride. It includes poetry and reflections on father son bonds, plus brief social notes about residents, travel, and local golf. Evidence of community life appears amid editorial tangents.
The International Education Board of California Institute of Technology offers to fund a vast reflecting telescope with a mirror twice as large as any existing. The project could cost up to two million dollars and would extend humanity’s view of the heavens beyond current capabilities.
For fourteen years the God’s Mercy Store at Waller, run by A. D. Purvis, has sold general merchandise with a unique pricing system. Customers may pay whatever above cash they can afford, or nothing if poor, while the store claims over $100,000 in annual business. Purvis says a divine message moved him to open the store after leaving cotton farming. The Insurance Review notes the legacy as evidence that the average man can be trusted and generous by nature.
Claiming ordinary laxatives fail after use the ad promotes Sure Starter for Lazy Liver as a tonic to start the liver and bowels and regulate them. It offers a free bottle trial by sending money for postage to Sterling Products in Wheeling West Virginia.
Garwood residents share news of births, family visits, and church activities. Local couples welcome a baby girl MaryAnn Braden. families visit relatives in Celeste, Wharton, Eagle Lake, and Houston. multiple towns attend church services, school board names a new member, and a local baseball game boosts hometown pride.
The article reflects on the unpredictable arc of radio development and transport progress. It recounts tests on Canadian railways showing radio's rise beyond fixed bounds, with moving trains and distant broadcasts once deemed impossible. It contrasts past disbelief with modern feats and notes the claustrophobic limits of human endurance when high altitude breathing required tanks.
A dated essay argues that paying debts reflects foresight, discipline, and character. It contrasts the responsible debtor with the spendthrift, claiming the payer is the civilization’s mainspring, balance wheel, and source of commerce and honor. The piece credits individual integrity for economic and social order.
Thursday afternoon Mrs Harry Landa entertained with bridge honoring Mrs Ralph Hart of Palestine. Three tables of players included Mesdames Lenhart Lands Nathan Smothers Anderson Causey Adams Dallas Dally Raub Malcomson Sands and Misses Malcomson Sands. Mrs Smothers won high score, consolation to Mrs Lenhart. A pelton cloth guest prize and delicious refreshments followed.
A Memphis writer from the Canal Zone extols Mendenhall's Chill Tonic Regular as a lasting remedy for chills fever and malaria. He claims one dose cured him after prior failures and notes successful use across the southern country and canal region among diverse patients including children.
If you have not used Mendenhall’s Malaria Chill and Fever Tonic, cut this ad out and mail to J. C. Mendenhall Medicine Co. Evansville Indiana for a full sized bottle free. Print your name.
Mr and Mrs J H McGreary and son Joe Lee toured to Houston and spent Sunday. Mr and Mrs Fisher McCreary and their El Paso sons arrived Sunday night for a family visit. A Whilte and daughter from Yoakum drove in and spent Sunday at the Gv Morgan home.
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