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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
3
M M Ray and Mrs Rich Ney visited Houston Sun. For two weeks engines within city limits have blown whistles at full blast causing a shrill din. Citizens urge railroad officials to curb the practice and the city council may pass ordinances making it costly to keep whistles open in town.
The piece juxtaposes cave man hats with etiquette rules for hat use and parody about editors. It cites outdated customs such as removing hats indoors and in elevators, plus humorous anecdotes from the Keerville Mountain Sun and Olney Enterprise about editors and trivial reports.
Mrs E Prudhomme of 616 West Woodlawn San Antonio Texas says a month on Sargon Soft Mass Pills cured her malaria caused weakness indigestion and constipation gaining five pounds and restoring color and appetite She notes the product also expelled malarial poisons and recommends sharing the news with friends Beckman’s Drug Store Eagle Lake St supplies the pills.
George Gray of Houston and Ralph Speegle of Yoakum, Humble Oil men, visited Eagle Lake Tuesday. They plan a new filling station on the Whit ten property opposite Alamo Lumber yards and two more stations nearby, boosting Eagle Lake to about seventeen gasoline outlets. If the three are built on East Main, the street could be dubbed Gasoline Pike.
Mrs Ed Walney hosted a birthday party Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6 oclock at her Walney home honoring her daughter Juanita Maes ord birth day anniversary. Fifty little guests played games on the lawn and enjoyed lemonade ice cream and cake. Balloons served as favors as the children left with smiles.
Advertises Sterling Products in Whiteling, West Virginia, promising a free bottle to prove a laxative remedy can start the bowels and relieve biliousness and constipation. Claims harsh laxatives leave you worse and urges readers to request the free sample.
A Texas housewife faced a rattlesnake incident while discussing a New York Times editorial on snakebite antitoxin. The Times reviews decades of antivenom research, noting venom variances and methods. It cites Pasteur Institute work and Col ML Crimifiins on Texas moccasin bites, illustrating antivenom as insurance against snake fangs.
The item mentions various oddities and advice about serums and snake venom, then reports Mr and Mrs A P Rollins and two children from Dallas visiting aunt Mrs P O Norris, noting Miss Mary Williamson of Engle Lake as a remembered local girl. It closes with sympathy from The Headlight for Old friend and former Engle Lake citizen BR L Brothers who died in Slayden.
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