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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
1
Entered as second class matter on May 2 1911 at Hearne Texas under the Act of March 3 1879 with Hearne Texas December 15 1916.
County records show a push to appoint a USDA Smith Lever Act funded demonstration agent in Robertson County. A chamber of commerce endorsement and a visit by a Texas A and M Extension rep highlighted plans to combine town, tax, and federal funds to support farm life education and rural development.
A letter to a judge proposes boosting circulation of a weekly by launching weekly expert articles. Proposed topics include quitting cotton for Johnston Grass, funeral arrangements with undertakers, keeping a passenger train on time, removing conscience from scales, the phrase twelve-ninety-five, and placing maxim silencers on phonographs. The writer hints at broader community interest and cites personal moves and correspondence with Franklin.
Aunt Prunella and LT debate a newly coined term Bulemap or Bullen-em-up used to describe verbose oratory. The scene riffs on livestock journals, etymology, and playful digs at long winded speeches, ending with the narrator calling LT the GOAT, A. Nutte.
A poem style advertisement roundup from The Old Reliable Democrat listing local merchants and services. It showcases business ads for clothing, glass, meats, insurance, shoes, clocks, medicines, and general goods with lines praising advertising’s payoff. Includes sellers like Dillard Allen Elliott Cohen Gatling Farrar Ely Gowan Hudson Ryman Crump Mateer and Jungle Kid notes.
A Brooklyn Daily Eagle poem line compares a lover’s griddle cakes to emery wheels and asphalt. The speaker jokes about weight gain from cake, claiming to gain nineteen pounds a day and wondering when the cakes will push him to the brink. The piece blends humor with culinary imagery in a personal, playful note.
The piece extols kind words from friends and presents an original poem from a town ally. It quotes the editor’s aim to serve readers, crediting advertisers correspondents reporters and printers for a weekly clean sheet, and thanks all who cooperate to make the paper possible.
In a small town the newspaper relies on reader help to gather local news. The Democrat invites community members to share guest lists birth and death notices events and other happenings by phone or mail to improve coverage and prevent complaints about the paper.
A classic 19th century remedy ad urges mothers to keep Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey for winter colds fever sore throat tight chest and croppy coughs. The product promises to loosen phlegm relieve congestion and stop the cough with antiseptic pine balsams. Suitable for croup whooping cough and chronic bronchial troubles. At all druggists 25c.
An advertisement touts Lax-Fos as a mild effective laxative and liver tonic that does not gripe or disturb the stomach. It contains cascara as a stimulating laxative and tonic and is said to aid digestion and restore healthy functions. Price listed as 50 cents.
Kath leen Talbot of Calvert and Randle Miller of Hearne wed Saturday evening in Calvert in a ceremony that united prominent local families. Talbot attended the university and belonged to Kappa Alpha Theta, while Miller, son of the late Monroe Miller, grew up in Austin and runs the Brazos Valley Garage. the couple receives wide good wishes from friends and the Democrat joins in congratulating them.
Children willingly take Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a pleasant remedy for coughs hoarseness and bronchitis. Promoted as effective and easy to take it is sold by James L. Hazlett Drug Co at 50c and 1.00 per bottle.
A vintage ad touts LANA TIVE BROMO QUININE as a tonic and laxative, claiming it avoids nervousness and head ringing unlike ordinary quinine. The copy urges remembering the full name and seeks the signature of E. W. GROVE, priced at 25c.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications, being a constitutional disease. Internal remedies like Hall's Catarrh Cure target the blood and mucous surfaces. It is a prescribed tonic and purifier, sold by druggists at 75 cents, with testimonials available.
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