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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1904
Page
3
A woman dropped a package with 800 dollars on a Houston street. A streetcar conductor handed in the money to his employer and the owner recovered it. The grateful woman gave the conductor a $2 reward for his honesty.
The article reports on a speech by Mrs. Zehner at the Assembly Hall on August 18, praising purity and womanliness, deriding Carrie Nation as unfeminine, and urging girls to cultivate their gifts while boys focus on study. It includes admonitions against tobacco and plans to support a Purity movement. It also notes a State Treasurer report on land revenues and mentions an invention bequest for a girls' industrial school.
DuPont Georgia resident J F Hughes recounts a lung abscess battle finally eased by Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. He praises rapid recovery after a few days and full health restoration. Trial bottle offered free, medicine sold 50 cents and $1.00. Also reports a Llano company forming to manufacture a boll weevil control machine.
A Texas testimonial claims Hallard's Snow Liniment cured a five year paralysis in the wife's arm and helped with old sores frost bites and skin eruptions. The ad sells 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles at W J Sedberry. A separate note describes a “modern bullet” capable of piercing multiple horse bodies at long range and a man after passing through a tree trunk.
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