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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1920
Page
2
A vintage ad pitches Cascarets as a mild laxative to relieve biliousness headaches coated tongue and sour stomach. It claims Cascarets are nicer gentler than salts oil calomel or harsh pills and work while you sleep.
The article notes India with one million workers in silk production and describes waterpillars and mulberry moths as fully germinated creatures, outlining difficulties in maintaining a disease free silk industry.
The Texas State Health Officers association will hold its annual meeting in Houston on April 19 and 20. State fire marshal reports show Texas averages about two barn fires daily and several towns seek extra fire credits to improve safety. The piece notes various administrative moves, budget figures, and legal opinions affecting Texas governance and public safety.
An old advertisement extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel a dangerous mercurial laxative. The copy warns calomel harms the body can cause sickness and salivation and urges using Liver Tone to start the liver without side effects suitable for adults and children. It ends with a cartoonish Army joke from Home Sector.
An old advertisement urges mothers to accept only California Syrup of Figs and to look for the word California on the package to ensure a safe gentle laxative for children. It touts a fruity taste and full directions on each bottle for stomach and bowel relief.
A collage of quirky lines and claims appears: a playful exchange about death and rest, a health ad touting Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for regularity, a note on Columbus era metals expanding to over fifty, and a fact about Australia's vast untouched forests spanning nearly 300 000 acres.
Chicago reports a Sunday tornado fatal to 155 people with 105 in the North and 50 in the South across Indiana Illinois Ohio Michigan Missouri Wisconsin Georgia Alabama. Elgin and Melrose Park suffered heavy damage with Elgin recording eight dead and over 100 injured and losses totaling millions.
The senate approved a 100000 amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill to pay for property damaged or destroyed in the pink boll worm fight. The overall pink boll worm fund totals 588000 for border fumigation and district work, with 200000 immediately available and 100000 of that for property loss. Senator Sheppard also secured 25000 for the Greenville cotton seed breeding station, while a wheat station funding increase was defeated by a tie vote. Also, President Wilson nominees Scott Reed of Groesbeck as Texas internal revenue collector and Robert E Latimer as Port Arthur customs collector.
In a Moscow wireless communique received in London it is announced that more than 16 000 anti Bolshevik soldiers have been found frozen to death on the steppes. The steppes span plains in southeastern Russia and the western Asiatic provinces.
Washington. Print paper costing not more than 8c a pound would be admitted tax free under a bill amending the revenue act. The measure, passed unanimously by the house, raises the previous 5c limit as importers said no paper could be obtained at that price.
Income and excess profits taxes totaling 908,829.72 were paid as the first installment of the nation's 1919 tax levy in Washington D C.
The American consul at Beirut advised the state department Tuesday that Lebanon in Asiatic Turkey has declared its independence from Prince Feisal's government.
The dialogue features a witty remark about clothes not making the man. Mr. Chuggins crawls out from under a car and counters with a bold comeback about clothing defining identity.
An advertising blurb touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine when marked with the Bayer Cross and claims physicians have prescribed it for many ailments. It notes twelve-tablet tins cost a few cents and larger packages are available, identifying aspirin as Bayer’s trade mark.
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