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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
4
A Graniteville Vermont reader praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming it restored health during change of life and nervous symptoms. The ad extols the medicine as uniquely effective for female illnesses and urges public sharing of the testimonial.
A dialogue on elections and women’s votes highlights bargain sales on election day as a strategy. The piece includes political satire about reform candidates and social scenes with Kitty Cameron’s confessions on attention and focus. Porto Rico hosts a tuberculosis exhibit drawing 100000 viewers across twenty two towns, hindered by poor transit requiring ox cart transport.
A Boston mother recalls feeding her three sons Bob Jack and Dick Grape-Nuts since infancy. She notes healthier kids and praises the cereal for daily use by her family and neighbors' children, contrasting with candy.
A lengthy survey notes that illicit whisky production has fallen to about one gallon today for every twenty produced fifteen years ago due to persistent government campaigns. It details methods, locations, and economics of wildcatters, informer dangers, and the evolving public sentiment reducing the trade, with occasional pockets of resistance. It also notes a separate item: the University of Bonn in Germany exceeded 4,000 students this summer.
A Baltimore Sun letter argues against modern songs for lacking true sentiment and becoming sentimental or maudlin. The writer contrasts ballads like Darling Nellie Gray with Are You Sincere, claiming old composers wrote heartfelt, simple words and avoided cynicism.
A humorous exchange reveals a widower declaring the only woman he ever loved is Mary while joking that all prior loves were merely girls, underscoring a playful tone of domestic wit.
A Iowa man David Price reports kidney trouble and severe weakness, then recovery after a week on Dean’s Kidney Pills, noting lasting health seven years later. The ad cites price, distributor, and store details. Also includes a humor anecdote about dinner versus luncheon and a Kentucky classic about perspiration and starch use promoting Defiance Starch for better fabric stiffness.
A quirky New York Post excerpt notes the cephalic index and brain size in ancient Athenians compared to modern people, using peas in skulls as a measuring metaphor. It contrasts ancient Greek history with Roman conflicts and modern concerns. A farmhouse scene follows with dialogue about summer guests and a color scheme mishap from Paris green on vegetables.
The text urges mothers to examine CASTORIA bottles for the proper signature Gat PLA and notes it has been used for over 30 years. It contrasts this with a playful lines about marrying for money and affection, featuring a light domestic exchange where one character accuses the other of being horrid.
An advertisement touts Mrs. McCormick's Beauty Cream for a peachy complexion with a harmless skin powder. It promises satisfaction or money back and offers a trial package for 10 cents from Behrens Drug Co., Waco, Texas. The page also includes a humorous caption about a parent amusing a baby despite its screeching.
An old advertisement touts Capudine as a fast relief for headaches from colds heat and stomach or nervous troubles. The liquid medicine claims immediate effects and lists 10 25 and 50 cent sizes at drug stores. The copy imitates a newspaper style but includes no angels or extra claims.
National Lead Company offers a free Houseowners' Painting Outfit No 49 from 1902 Trinity Building New York City. The package includes a complete painting guide with color schemes for exterior or interior use, specifications, and a paint adulteration detector instrument.
A New Jersey justice of the peace advertised to marry couples any time for six dollars with a dollar down and the rest in weekly installments of one dollar until five dollars is paid. Shortly after the ad appeared a couple summoned him at midnight in an automobile and he fulfilled the plan.
A Methodist bishop visiting a friend with two daughters goes fishing with them. An old fisherman asks if they are catching many, and the bishop replies he is a fisher of men. The fisherman retorts that he has the right bait, matching the humor of the moment.
An endorsement from J. R. Herzog D D in New York praises Resinol Ointment as the best relief and cure for itching piles with occasional use preventing recurrence. The note claims rapid results and home usefulness, followed by unrelated items on kissing germs and laundering with Defiance Starch.
A jumble of wartime quips, medical claims, and household ads. It references Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign with jokes about Mamelukes, then shifts to mental health benefits of laughter, a Winged “Rough on” line of patent medicines, a boat joke about a captain and mate, airplane jokes, and an advertisement for Hamlin's Wizard Oil and Mrs. Witw's Soothing Syrup. The text mixes humor, consumer ads, and dubious remedies.
The Detroit Free Press quotes a critic noting that a subject’s college education has not noticeably improved her. The remark underscores skepticism about formal schooling affecting personal outcomes.
The ad touts Hicks Capudine as the best remedy for gripp and colds and Perry Davis Painkiller as a longtime trusted relief for many conditions. It mentions liquid effects and prices at drug stores and adds a courtship quip about disarmament.
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