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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
4
An anecdote at a British Authors' club banquet features a guest posing as Julius Caesar. Lieut Shackleton and party enter the house where the hostess jokes Caesar is going to bed, while inviting guests to drink in the dining room. A separate quip notes the pain of aging compared with boyhood.
A customer requests accuracy in financial figures before starting a new appointment on Monday. The principal emphasizes the firm’s strictness about correctness in numbers.
A collage of brief items: a family teaching a boy not to swear ends with a clumsy fall. Turkish fez shops and brimless head coverings at prayer. Dr. S F Spohn elected mayor of Goshen Indiana after long service in education. banter about women's curiosity and streetcar bravado. a reminder of Berry Davis Painkiller as a home remedy. a sly line about a thin woman and restraint. Pills for stomach liver and bowels advertised as Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
In Marshall Missouri after the death of veteran bus conductor W P Hulse his widow Eliza and daughter Pearl 19 decide to keep the bus line. They mail out letters to Missouri Drummers association members and enlist town support to save the heavily mortgaged operation. Pearl hats and cards promote their service as they seek steady patronage to sustain the family business.
Mrs. Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas recounts fifteen years of kidney trouble and two years bedridden. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring her health enabling her to work like an average woman at nearly eighty. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
An actor stranded with a growing beard asks for ten cents to shave after four days of playing Hamlet. The manager suggests switching to Othello, noting the beard would suit the character.
A 1907 testimonial touts Cuticura products curing severe eczema in three weeks after ineffective other remedies. The piece also mentions George F. Parker recounting Grover Cleveland era political spending and a penny weighing machine anecdote, highlighting curious historical snippets.
The passage touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy, claims it cures catarrh by addressing the disease internally rather than locally, and notes a Toledo, Ohio connection with F. J. Cheney & Co. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and includes a quotation from John Wesley about avoiding popularity with simple rules.
A compilation of public health notes cites Stockholm data and US open air TB schools, estimating thousands of affected children and limited facilities. It also mentions hypnotism in medical history and endorses Resinol Ointment and Capudine for headaches with brief testimonials.
A fragmentary collection of quips and old time cures. A joke about football coaches and ambulance hints alternates with a home remedy urging Wizard Oil to ease chest congestion. The tone reflects period humor and practical advice.
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