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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1922
Page
7
An old newspaper ad promotes LIVACAPS for bad liver and colds to be taken at bedtime with a hot foot bath. Claims cold is gone next day for both children and adults. Red Label price 50 cents. Sold by all druggists. iy-VS 10tf
Dallas Public Health Institute features a historical note on Ben Clark known as Red Neck for aiding Cheyenne captives. Clark helped reunite four sisters with General Miles, later settling as Fort Reno’s interpreter and long time government servant remembered by both white and Native communities. The article then outlines an upcoming Public Health Institute in Dallas January 16 to 21. It lists speakers from Tulane, Chicago, and local institutions and notes hotel accommodations, travel discounts, and free lectures on tuberculosis nutrition disease control and hygiene. Dr. Wilson T. Davidson chairs the arrangements.
Lohn farmer Lohn killed a Polan China hog weighing 989 pounds and over two years old. After sticking the hog and draining the blood, the carcass yielded dressed hams of 126 pounds, a likely McCulloch County record for meat produced.
Ford Retail Sales go Over Million. Ford retail sales of cars trucks and Fordson tractors topped 1,093,000 in 1921 with production at 1,050,740 units. December 1921 sales rose nearly 25 percent from December 1920, and Fordson tractors more than doubled. Prices for key models were cut for the fourth time in sixteen months. Ford employs about 40,000 in Detroit, with roughly 20 percent of the city’s population tied to the company.
In the sixties a trapper in Wyoming named Dr W F Carver outshot ambushing Indians with a repeating rifle after a clever setup. He gained the moniker for his feared medicine gun and later served as a scout for the army. He befriended Buffalo Bill Cody and joined his Wild West show as a sharpshooter.
Otto Kolmeier promotes a gas wire carload and announces 1/8 off Ladies Caps and Sweaters. Schroeder Bros. touts new wire stock and urges customers to compare prices before buying.
A large display shows a clearance sale on durable dress and school wear in all sizes from 12 to 54. The offer highlights a great big lot and a carload quantity linked to Otto Kolmeier.
The store advertises dresses priced at 12.95, highlighting fine tricotines valued to 32.00 and sizes from 16 to 44 as part of a winter clearance sale.
Four years of high value promises headline an upcoming sale starting Saturday February 4. TM McCrary Fish & Poultry Buyers depart, urging customers to bring chickens and eggs next door to Maier for top market prices. Bermuda Union seeds and Stetson hat line introduced at new prices. Property listed includes 57 acres with a house 114 miles from the courthouse.
Frankfort datestated as January 24. A bill introduced in the Kentucky House by Representative Ellis of Barren county would forbid teaching Darwinism evolution atheism agnosticism or the origin of man in any state funded school college or university. The measure was referred to the committee on Kentucky statutes. 60 Ladies Coats and Coat Suits 1/3 off.
The State of Texas against Fritz Strube for accidental homicide in a collision on the San Antonio road last summer ended with a not guilty verdict in Bexar County County Court. The jury swiftly dismissed the charge. A separate notice announces feed items for sale with a free camp yard for customers.
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