Freezone promises quick corn and callus relief
An ad touts Freezone as a cheap remedy for corns and hard skin on feet. A few drops supposedly lift corns and calluses, leaving underlying skin pink and healthy without soreness.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
2
An ad touts Freezone as a cheap remedy for corns and hard skin on feet. A few drops supposedly lift corns and calluses, leaving underlying skin pink and healthy without soreness.
A playful exchange features a girl asked about two wishes. She bluntly says she would wish for a husband, while noting she would keep the second wish until she sees how her future spouse turns out.
An advertisement claims Othine double strength will remove freckles and improve complexion. It advises applying nightly and morning with a money back guarantee if freckles do not vanish, noting most users need less than an ounce.
A private soldier at King's Cross station in London kept his good humor during demobilization. A traveler heard him cheerily say to a companion, Well so long Bill See you at the next war.
Advert shows Tet terine as a cure for skin eruptions including pimples blotches and eczema claiming rapid improvement with regular use. Package details show 50 cents from Shapirine Co Savannah Ga. Also includes a humorous quip about a husband obsessed with solving a puzzle.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a internal remedy to cleanse the blood and prevent colds. Claims it treats nasal catarrh by acting through the bloodstream and offers testimonials with a $100 guarantee for any uncured case. Toledo firm F. J. Cheney & Co. promotes the product.
An old farmer laments misfortune with hens and jokes about eyes from ill treatment. The quip recalls a joke where a man asks how to get many eyes and receives a reply about hens laying for him. The line appears attributed to the Boston Transcript.
A young man asks to be taught love and the woman lists her wealth and assets including Liberty bonds stock and real estate. She replies she has learned and teases him as a teacher. She quips about his wife's objection to his gambling, noting she objects only when he loses.
At a food exhibit a United States Department of Agriculture agent promotes chicken fat as a 100 percent fat substitute for butter in many recipes. She explains using four fifths the amount, adding salt, and notes suitable uses in cakes and cookies while warning about flavor and storage.
Readers are urged to salvage worn garments by remaking skirts into rompers for boys or jumpers for girls. Tips include enlarging tight skirts, adding belts, false hems, yokes, and reusing fabric for middy blouses and vests. Practical, resourceful sewing guidance for a household wardrobe.
A series of domestic tips covers bread aging, coffee flavor, lemon peel in prunes, shoe storage, quiet handling of fowls, poultry dressing with cinnamon, brushing near flour bins, candle safety and using candles without mess by freezing them before use.
Secretary Glass outlined the Victory Liberty Loan terms in Washington. The issue totals 4.5 billion dollars with 4 percent tax exempt notes and 3 percent notes. maturities are four years with three year redemption option. Interest exemptions and conversion rules are noted. the issue is smaller than expected and will be the last liberty loan though more government securities will follow.
Austin, Tex. The attorney general's department holds that bonds issued by counties or road districts under 1911 statutes must be spent on road construction maintenance and operation and in aid thereto. The opinion allows counties to assume district debts and issue bonds to fund district roads connected to a county system. Courts may authorize dirt road construction followed by surface work, but not separate bond issues for dirt and for surfacing.
Austin Texas The Texas railroad commission sets an April 22 hearing to require prewar passenger service on additional lines The Abilene and Southern may restore trains 19 and 20 between Ballinger and Abilene and 15 and 16 between Abilene and Hamlin The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe would reinstate several trains between Waco MacGregor Dallas Cleburne Brownwood San Angelo Cleburne Bellville Houston Galveston and Sealy routes plus mixed trains 205 206 Somerville Plantersville and 1 2 Houston Galveston returning to their rails and 5 6 17 18 routed over the MK and T between Houston and Sealy.
After talks with federal railroad administration officials, Chairman Allison Mayfield of the Texas railroad commission approved applying federal controlled carrier live stock rates to noncontrolled Texas lines. The commission had resisted but the plan would coordinate routes moving livestock over multiple lines and likely lower overall rates.
Houston district attorney D E Simmons announced the release from parole and cancellation of bonds for more than twenty German and Austrian enemy aliens residing in South Texas. The action follows government moves to lift war time restrictions under department of justice instructions from Washington.
Troops in France seek battlefield tours to pass time before demobilization. Short leaves arranged for visits to Ypres Mes sines Arras Albert and smaller sites Boesinghe Wood 15 Bois Grenier Combles La Prie farm Ephey Bousies. Music and social dancing noted in passings.
An advertisement promotes a tonic for children troubled with worms. It claims the tonic enriches the blood, improves digestion, and acts as a general strengthening remedy. It asserts Nature will expel worms and restore perfect health. Price listed as gc per bottle.
Editor riffs on a dogged pursuit as a poet mocks his own doggerel. A playful exchange hints at newsroom banter and literary meddling with a canine motif.
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