Weatherford to Mineral Wells rail timetable notes
A fragmentary timetable shows departures from Weatherford and Mineral Wells with connections to the Texas Pacific line. It mentions arrival times around 4 to 8 a m and links to other trains, highlighting a close connection at Weatherford with the Surface Railway.
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Texas & Padific Traine
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Table and Kitchen Free From Price Baking Powder Co
A new cook book titled Table and Kitchen is offered free by the Price Baking Powder Company of Chicago. The 400 plus pastry and home cookery receipts include kitchen hints and dining room etiquette. Send name town and state on a postal card and postage is repaid. German or Scandinavian version available on request.
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Local Advertisers Standout Firms Listed by Towns
An exchange notes advertising leaders in each town, urging readers to seek the best firms visible locally. It highlights dependable options and suggests visiting notable merchants to ensure quality services.
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Ives
Blemish Cure Promise From Local Drug Co
English Sporn instrument removes all hard butt or calloused scraps and blemishes from homes blood pavins curtn pits sweetney ring bone stiles sprake and swollen thrusts. Save 50 by use of the bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold by The KR B Envin Drug Co.
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Looks and health tied to organ function claims
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a tonic that improves appearance by balancing vital organs including the liver stomach and kidneys. It promises clearer skin and better complexion. The note also references political talk about the Wilson bill and gold standard parity. Weatherford, Re.
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R ‘ Drug Co
Public Servants and Scandal Chatter Stir Community
A Abilene Reporter note warns against scandal mongers and slanderers urging residents to shun traitorous talk. It contrasts public servants with bosses, calls for patience as the panic passes, and urges farmers to allow cotton to help commerce resume.
The Man Who is Guyed
An essay argues that taunting a moody irritable man can trigger violent outcomes. It compares such behavior to handling a loaded gun and urges kindness and self-control to prevent injuries, prison, or execution.
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Rudyard Kipting
Cate
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Cherokee county urged to attract immigrants for fruit trade
The Jacksonville Banner opines on a growing suspicion culture and urges Cherokee county to assemble a credible exhibit for the Dallas fair in October. It notes Ohio county offers ready locations for fruit business investments and criticizes grand land grants in tie to immigration debates.
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Cherokee County
Dallas Fair
Police County
Ohio County
Controlling Ads Provokes Protest in Weatherford Tribune
A Weatherford Tribune editorial denounces political and religious pressure on newspapers for ad placement. The note warns that boycotts and coercion amount to tyranny and slavery. The ad copy touts Woolford's Sanitary Lotion as a cure for "tins" on men and horses, sold by The K. 45. Abraham Drag Co.
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Alaninas
Woolford
Adraham Drag Co
Salt Watered Crib Remedy Fends Off Weevils In Corn
A 19th century note describes Captain Silas Baggett's method to protect corn during cribbing from weevils. The process uses light water spraying with salt while the corn is spread in twenty foot crib pens, then piled near the door with salt applied to the bulk, aiming to keep grain fit for cattle feed. The Waxahachie dispatch adds a separate report of racial tension and a preacher in Waxahachie, contrasting Colorado and Texas views, ending with calls against liquor and social equality debates.
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Waxahachie
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Texas
Rich stranger mocks hotel and show buildings in Chiago scene
A rough, moneyed man lounges in an Auditorium chair in Chiago and jokes with a menial about the hotel name and the Spectatorium at the fair grounds. He asks to move an expellatory device and take a chaw of the weed, displaying disdain for the venue.
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Fair Grounds
Diagnosing Watch Promises Healing by Vein Signals
A self taught healer claims a watch she built detects disease via veins in the right and left hands. She asserts the watch marks disturbances and prescribes herbal lotions. Medical observers view it as a demonstration of suggestion rather than true medicine.
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God Faigaee
Posali
Seysa
Deceptive Scheme Involving Savings Bank Plot
A rustic tale describes a young man joking with a fruit lawyer over saving money and a pretend bank mischief. He offers two dollars, then three, and toys with fake figures to woo Mary Jane, promising to confess the bank has busted and to love only her.
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Mary Jane
Unearthly Noises Disturb Atlanta Nightly
Residents report eerie sounds in central Atlanta attributed to a new boar ting house occupant described as the champion snorer of the world. Dr J L Farmer traced the disturbance to the boarding house, noting the noises reached 300 yards and could have carried farther past a nearby freight train.
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Atlanta
J. L. Farmer
Silk House
Curious Zaparos courtship ritual described
The text outlines a South American tribe the Zaparos have a unique courting custom. A lovestruck youth chants while courting and upon return gazes at the beloved’s feet. He then gathers fuel to cook a meal if accepted. if rejected he leaves sorrowfully.
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South America
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Frugal congressman declines California bid amid balking riches
A modest former congressman who once represented a district near the capital in two terms moves to California. Central committee urges him to run again, but he refuses citing poverty and campaign costs in Washington, recalling past costly promotions of anxious constituents.
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Congress
California
Central Committee
Spokosman
Washington
Modern wedding calm contrasts old veil era with Edam cheese lore
A Washington wedding showcases a bride’s placid composure as she enters the church and openly quips to friends about chaperoning next season. The piece then shifts to Edam cheese, described as small round Dutch cheese named after a Holland town, once likened to cannon balls in size and hardness during sieges.
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Washington
Amsterdam
Holland
Missing pony sought by J W Graves for recovery
One day pacing pony five years old eighteen hands high with white facial markings one white hind foot and a blotched gg brand on left shoulder. Sorrel mare described as temperamental. Reasonable reward offered for information leading to her recovery.
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J. W. Graves
Prank Herron
J. Wy Shannon
Frank Herron
W. H. Conningham
Thomason
Willems
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