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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
3
In this serialized melodrama, Madison schemes around a fake healer called the Patriarch as Helena and Thornton face a desperate night stranded in mud. The Plopper’s ruse unfolds amid grand schemes of cures and love, with a looming truth and a stormy escape on the horizon.
Helena and Thornton drive through worsening woods on a rough map labeled rough but passable. Darkness deepens as muddy logging-trail tires slip and Helena senses unease while the road twists toward an unseen destination. Thornton jokes about the map as fear and mystery grow.
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel damages the liver, causes cramping and nausea, and warns against salivation. The ad urges readers to seek the product from a druggist for quick, healthful results.
In a rain soaked scene Thornton urges to fetch help leaving Helena alone in a crude shelter. He confronts concerns about her reputation and his harsh words reveal their fragile bond as the storm deepens, while Madison and the Flopper scramble with the Patriarch's growing impatience. Helena frets over his leaving and the looming need for rescue.
Squeeze juice from two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. Grocers stock lemons and drug stores offer three ounces of oreward white for a few cents. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes. claim is harmless.
An old fashioned remedy promises to cure malaria or chills and fever with five or six doses. Marketed as a tonic, it claims to break fevers and prevent recurrence, noting it acts on the liver without causing gibes or sickness. Priced at 25 cents.
Meadowsville Kentucky resident Mrs. Cynthia Higginbotham recounts severe constipation indigestion and sluggish liver at 65. After a few doses she reports improved appetite strength and natural bowel movements. Thedford’s Black-Draught marketed as a 70 year standard remedy with 25 cent packages and one cent per dose.
Notice of sale under a 1916 mortgage by J A D Kidd and Ida Kidd to B Berman. After default, the judge will sell at public outcry at the county courthouse in Hillsboro, Lawrence County, Alabama, on June 6 1917 to pay the debt and costs. The property includes two mules Jew and Jerry and a two horse wagon, in Kidd’s possession. Mortgagee is Berman. attorney Isadore Shapiro.
A Moulton Drug Co. ad urges insured health against Bright's Disease and kidney troubles, praising Byars Liver Pills as a preventive cure. Dr A S Byars promotes the product at Moulton Drug Co with a 25 cent price, noting it begins to work after the first dose to cleanse the system.
Real estate financier advertises loans on Lawrence County farms and city property in Decatur Alabama. Terms include ten year loans and rapid closing after receiving the abstract.
Athens resident Mrs J L Carter of Athens Alabama testifies to kidney relief after using one box of Deans Kidney Pills. She reports sharp pains and lameness across loins resolved with no trouble for over two years. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets the pills.
7 percent money to loan on farm land in Laurence County for five to ten years. Loans closed in ten to fifteen days if you want money on long easy payments write or come to see me W. J. Nesbitt, Decatur, Ala. Phone 274.
A Cincinnati authority endorses freezone as a cheap remedy to remove corns and calluses. Apply a few drops to the tender area and the corn loosens and lifts out, root and all, with no pain. A small bottle is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores.
Letters of administration on the estate of the deceased, Minnie Gray, were granted on May 1, 1917, by Judge J. C. Kumpe of the Lawrence County Probate Court. All persons with claims against the estate must present them within the legal period or be barred. The administratrix is Minnie Gray.
County board of equalization must value all taxable property, enter into the ad and lot book, and transcribe to assessment lists by the second Monday in May 1917 and each year thereafter. They shall certify their values, deliver reports to the county tax assessor, whose office will be open for public inspection. The assessor must publish weekly notices for three weeks in a county newspaper or post in three public places, announcing the board’s report and June third Monday meeting at the courthouse to correct assessments.
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