Angelina County Votes Dry in Local Option Election
In a county wide local option vote Angelina County swung dry with pro prohibitionists carrying 15 boxes of 16 and a 432 vote edge. Lufken Huntington Homer Burl Manning Diboll Platt Rocky Hill all show dry majorities. antis won Pollock. Celebrations erupt as voters express support for prohibition with results unlikely to change. Also includes assorted advertisements and notices about medicines and agricultural products.
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Angelina County
Lufken
Texas
Huntington
Homer
Burl
Manning
Diboll
Pollock
Anti
Platt
Rocky Hill
Antis
Trusted Liver Tone Guarantee Wins Over Customer
A Rexall Drug Store guarantee backfires with a customer who tests the promise by returning a bottle for a refund and keeps the money, declaring Danson's Liver Tone the best remedy for constipation and biliousness. The ad touts Liver Tone as a gentle liver starter replacing calomel and praises Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey. Also notes Yungston filaments for commercial electric lamps down to eight ten-thousandths of an inch.
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Rexall Drug Store
Dodson
Danson
Donson
Yungston
Old Convict Ships and Cruelty Narratives Return
A compendium of historical notes recounts the convict ship Success sunk in Sydney harbor, later raised and displayed with irons, leg chains, and the notorious black hole. It also covers Napoleon III’s brief U.S. visit in 1836 37 and Pisa’s leaning tower with counterbalancing architecture and a 12000 pound bell.
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Great Britain
Success
Sydney Harbor
London Globe
Napoleon
Louis Napoleon
Louis
Philippe
America
Louis Philippe
United States
Switzerland
Simple Correction Teaches Grammar Lesson
A teacher quotes a corrected sentence from a pupil about "The toast was ate in silence" after asking what was wrong with "drank." The item reflects a local school scene and a child’s corrective entry on the blackboard.
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Louisville Times
Community notes from Ussery Hill and Prospect White Oak
Absent residents return and community morale rises amid prayers and school activities. Reports cover sick list improvements, Sunday School attendance, singing at the schoolhouse, visitors from Prospect and White Oak, local celebrations, school closings, and plans for a moonlight fish fry as well as a forthcoming road machine arrival.
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Tom Duncan
Prospect
White Oak
Taylor Simmons
Lawrence Bramlette
Curby Grubbs
Farr
Bears Youngblood
Suther Edgar McAdoo
Ivey Pruitt
Hoyt League
Postell Moseley
Smithland
Postell
Ussery Hill
TJ Smith
Shiloh
Edgar McAdoo
Horace Suber
HS Morrow
Lizzie Hill
Jefferson
Earl Youngblood
Blackhead
Algo
Lee Snead
Minnie Morris
John Morris
J. G Morris
Donnie
Emma Cooner
Fannie Morris
Edgar Morris
Leo Wood
Tommie Morris
Alonzo
Willie Cooner
Counter Line
Jace Smith
County Line
J . Morris
B. Lb. West
Ashland
la Jdie Moon
Ed West
Fred Morris
J D Dodd
Lit
Clyde
Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promoted As Liver Health Aid
An advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a remedy for liver stomach and bowel troubles including constipation. It claims quick relief and urges readers to avoid calomel and purgatives. Druggists sell them for 25 cents with a free sample offered by Hot Springs Chemical Co.
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Hot Springs
Hot Springs Chemical Co
Hot Springs Ark
W. J. Ledberry Special Agent
Jefferson
High Priced Poodles Contrast in Boston and Black Bay Districts
A fragmented 19th century collage notes baby poodle prices from Boston at 2 to 10 dollars versus 100 to 1000 dollars in Black Bay districts, with satirical asides about motherhood and poodle care. The piece also references medical ads for Prickly Ash Bitters and Dean's Regulines as digestive aids and promotes public health cautions about typhoid and infantile paralysis linked to stables near homes.
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Boston
Black Bay
Charlotte Smith
Houston Post
Omaha
Breeze
Fletcher's Castoria Advertisement Claim
A vintage advertisement claims Fletcher's Castoria relieves bowel troubles and pain quickly. It promotes Dr Bell's Anti-Pain as an external remedy and states the product is sold everywhere.
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Dr. Bell
High Cost of Living Mixer and Calves Record Pric e
A list of home mixer tips claims halving butter cost and doubling quantity with butter milk and color suggestions. Fort Worth stock yards reports a consignment of 94 calves averaging 212 pounds sold at 8.75 per hundredweight totaling about 26 per head, a 50 cent higher record than last year.
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Simplecougl
Roberts
Fort Worth
Fort Wort
Pric
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Commonwealth of Australia
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Pisa
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Thompson Clove
Ladies Queen Quality
John Kelly
Dan Mennin
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Sedberry Special Agent
Dean
Fletcher
Ballard
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Hart
W. J. Ledberry
W. J. Sedberry
Rexall
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