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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
6
An advertisement urges internal cleansing by drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush toxins from the bowels and improve health. It claims benefits for headaches bad breath constipation and general well being, contrasting internal sanitation with external baths.
An old label advertises Grove Tasteless Chill Tonic claiming it drives out malaria and builds up the system with fidola and iron in a tasteless form. The bottle priced at 50 cents.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets for sluggish bowels and digestive discomfort. It claims a 10 cent box cleanses the stomach, eases headaches and biliousness, and leaves a clear head by morning, with no groggy side effects.
A Fort Worth Texas man aged 68 testifies Swamp Root cured thirty years of kidney trouble and neuralgia of the stomach after five bottles. He praises Dr Kilmer Co and notes his life was saved. Notary public confirmation dated September 2 1915 appears. Sample size offered for ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co.
President Wilson sent to the senate a long Lansing letter with a data volume on Mexico's de facto government under Venustiano Carranza. It includes a tabulation of Americans killed in Mexico and on the border over six years and declines to provide diplomatic reports citing confidentiality. Carranza’s ability to protect lives and property is described as reasonably adequate, with higher American casualties in 1913-15 than 1910-12.
Secretary Lansing announced Washington will accept only a complete agreement covering all points on conducting warfare under international law. He noted Germany’s vow to sink armed Entente merchant ships after February 29 conflicts with prior assurances. The Ancona and Persia cases may wait until Austria and Germany provide matching guarantees.
Hidalgo county Texas officials lifted the quarantine against the Republic of Mexico after a Tuesday county commission meeting. The action ends restrictions tied to Hidalgo and surrounding areas on the border.
Washington reports American made war munitions entering Europe at nearly two million dollars daily with production rising quickly as output expands.
A Sunday fire gutted Morse Hall in Ithaca New York, a 1890 building housing Cornell University chemical laboratories and scientific equipment. The estimated loss stands at 300000 dollars.
Italians and Austrians press artillery exchanges on the Austro Italian front amid heavy mountain snows with sporadic infantry attacks that yield little decisive outcome.
Allied reports say a Turkish fortress at Erzerum with a garrison near 100,000 troops is captured by Russian forces after five days of heavy assault. Russian commanders claim the fortress and guns fall, with wide strategic implications for Persia and Mesopotamia.
New Orleans reports levee crevasses in the lower Mississippi near Ostrica about sixty eight miles below New Orleans. The Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers show higher water than 1913, with flood volumes expected to surge back toward the Mississippi and Atchafalaya basins.
The Boston Grand Opera Company and Pavlova Imperial Ballet Russe tour Houston February 28 29 with three operas Madame Butterfly La Boheme and I Pagliacci plus ballets Snowflakes Coppelia. The event features star singers Ricard o Martin Maggie Teyte Zenatello and high costs two special trains and wide regional rail rates.
The national Acacia organization grants a charter to the Triangle Club of the University of Texas, a group formed entirely by Mason students.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine claiming dandruff removal within ten minutes and new hair growth after weeks. It promises scalp relief, lustrous soft hair, and an instant beauty boost by applying the solution with a cloth through a single strand.
An old advertisement promotes St Jacobs Oil as a harmless rheumatism and pain remedy. It claims instant relief from pain, soreness, stiffness, and swelling and asserts the product has cured millions over 50 years. Includes a joke about a skeleton key in the end.
Marine Eye Remedy Co. of Chicago offers an Eye Book on request to keep eyes looking young after the movies. The ad notes that men often feel fooled after marriage and jokes about aging.
Dear Mr Editor I suffered from lame back and worn-out feeling and could barely stand. After taking Anuric Tablets my back improved and I no longer walk doubled over. The note explains sluggish kidneys cause backache headaches dizzy spells lumbago rheumatism and gout. Anuric dissolves uric acid as hot water melts sugar. Ask the druggist for Anuric by Dr. Pierce in 50 cent packages.
An early 20th century ad promotes a gray hair remedy claiming it darkens streaked gray hair gradually. It uses bay ram, Barbo Compound, and oxo glycerine, to be applied twice weekly with minimal cost. It pledges to remove dandruff improve hair texture and avoid scalp staining.
A brief exchange speculates about what the Pan American press might be. The other speaker wonders if it is a convention of hyphenated citizens, noting uncertainty in a light, conversational tone.
Immediate attention urged for sprains swellings bruises rheumatism and neuralgia. Mansfield's Magic Arnica ointment recommended with three sizes priced 25c 50c and 1.00. Some men are described as regular in their fierce habits.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe remedy for all female ailments from puberty to menopause. It claims the medicine stabilizes the feminine organs, relieves headaches backaches hot flashes catarrhal conditions bearing down sensations and mood swings and asserts it is a temperance medicine with ingredients listed on the wrapper.
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