Peruna Endorsed in Homes and Texas Senate Debate
Peruna remains a household name in over a million homes and is promoted for numerous ailments. In Texas, the Senate opens with a Hudspeth petition for an animal scalp bounty and a commerce committee report favoring eminent domain for interurban railbridges. The Bailey investigation panel seeks funds for counsel and staff, adopted without opposition, as Willacy moves a Tuesday 9 am adjournment.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Hudspeth
Tom Green
Committee On Commerce and Manufactures
Masterson and
Griggs
Green
Bailey Investigation Committee
Willacy
Seed Co offers 12c postpaid catalog deal from 1906
John Salter Seed Co advertises a 12c postpaid package to recruit 200000 new customers. The catalog promises seeds including Berliner Earliest Cauliflower and various vegetables, with free nursery stock and tools, mailed free to those in tending age from La Crosse Wisconsin.
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Garden City
John Salter Seed Co
Box W
la Crosse
Wis
Hunt's Cure Promises Quick Relief for Itch
An 1890s style ad claims Hunt's Cure cures eczema ringworm and all itch forms in one box. It guarantees relief and asserts effectiveness for any sensation labeled itch. The copy concludes with a quip about a ten cent gift costing a dollar.
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Hunt
Texas Law Measures and Patent Medicine Ads in 1906
The page lists multiple Texas House bill introductions by Gaines Jennings Murray Crisp Fuller Terrell Alderdice Savage Camp and others addressing land titles fire safety education and a state textbook board. It also carries extensive advertisements for Virgin Oil of Pine Pure Ward's Kidney Pills Hunt's Lightning Oil PAZO Ointment and other patent remedies with testimonials and claims of cures.
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Messrs Murray and Crisp
Texas
Fuller
Messrs
Terrell
Alderdice
Savage
Bell
Camp
New Corporations Formed Across Texas and Nearby States
Secretary of State records list multiple charters filed including Nacogdoches Tobacco Company with 6500 capital, S. B. Howard Manufacturing Company at 30000, Pioneer Mercantile Company at 30000, Pioneer Mercantile Co of Memphis Hall county, Nacogdoches Tobacco Growing Company at 6500, Colorado Mercantile Company at 15000, Hunters Nickel Store at 10000, Higginbotham Currie Company at 100000, Leader Clothing Company at 10000, and Byrd Cattle Company amending charter to 150000, with several incorporators named across Fort Worth, Dallas, Abilene, Ballinger, Carizzo Springs and Chicago.
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Nacogdoches Tobacco Company
Austin
Tex
Secretary of State
S. B. Howard Manufacturing Company
Fort Worth
Capital Stick
Incorporators
S. B. Howard
C. C. Howard
E. B. McClellan
Bonham
W. A. Schaffer
Pioneer Mercantile Company
Memphis
Hall County
Capital
W. M. Fore
B. FE. Denny
J. A Bradford
Nacogdoches
H. A. Shanin
W. W. Gross
Leader Clothing Company
Dallas
M. Wachenheim
St. Louis
A. Muller
Simon Wertheimer
Byrd Cattle Company
Carrizo Springs
Maurice Gombert Not Guilty In Self Defense Murder Trial
Maurice Gombert was tried in Houston criminal court for murdering his wife but was found not guilty. The trial drew many spectators and was brief. The defense rested on self defense with key testimony from his nieces Etta and Mamie Gombert and witness Mike Haskell.
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Houston
Tex
Maurice Gombert
Etta
Mamie Gombert
Mike Haskel
Oil Mill for Pearsall Under Farmers Union Plan
Pearsall Texas locals report Farmers Union for Frie county has closed a county meeting about building a cotton oil mill to boost local agriculture and industry.
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Pearsall
Tex
Farmers’ Union For
Frie County
Light Frost Damages None in Alvin Truck Patches
The past forty eight hours brought a light frost in Alvin Texas but no damage occurred to growing truck. A preceding spell of slight rain should benefit the truck patches.
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Alvin
Tex
Cuero Cabbage Shipments Reported From Local Truckers
Cuero Texas reports two cars of cabbage shipped Friday by local truckers. Charles Schaeffer sent a car of beef cattle to Houston.
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Cuero
Tex
Charles Schaeffer
Houston
Builders Move Quickly After Beeville Fire
In Beeville Texas both L. J. Harkey and B. Mattingly had lumber on the ground to replace their destroyed buildings within days after the Wednesday fire cooled.
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Beeville
Tex
L. J. Harkey
B. Mattingly
Norther Brings Rain Helps Seguin Fruit Growers
Seguin Texas reports a Monday morning norther with rain easing drought for fruit growers. Farmers advance plowing as rainfall moderates rapid vegetation growth.
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Seguin
Tex
Fearless Englishwoman Tours Morocco On Horseback
In a proof of calm in Morocco claimed by German authorities an officer from the Fez expedition recounts meeting Mrs Frances V Campbell an English woman traveling alone across Morocco on horseback with only a few servants for escort.
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Morocco
Fez
Frances V. Campbell
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers 100 Dollar Reward
An advertisement offers a 100 dollar reward for any catarrh cure that fails with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and testimonials from Walpine Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. Claims the cure works internally through the blood and mucous membranes. Also promotes Hall's Pure Pills for constipation and lists price at 75 cents.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
Walpine, Kinnan & Marvin
Versailles baker acquitted in five wives polygamy case
At Versailles a baker was tried for polygamy after marrying five women who were living and undivorced. His defense claimed the women courted him and he refused or could not say no. Three wives testified, offered no prosecution, noting he was a heavy drinker they were glad to discard.
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Versailles
France
Barkis
Willin
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. F. Walsh
36Th St
New York City
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Grape Nuts Help Woman Recover After Long Illness
A Wisconsin woman credits Grape Nuts with ending a long invalid spell after cerebro spinal congestion and other ailments. After 10 days without food a doctor recommended Grape Nuts and no white bread for two years, leading to recovery and renewed strength. The Letter urges publication to help others and cites Dr. James Bryce.
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Wis
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Rich Men On Government Payroll For Pleasure
Theodore Gill, renowned fish expert, serves the U S government for one dollar a month. Dr. Harrison G Dyer, mosquito authority, contributes much time for twenty five dollars monthly. Gif ford Pinchett leads the forestry service on forty five dollars a year. Several other wealthy men are on payrolls at nominal sums, pursuing government work for the pleasure of doing things as President Roosevelt said.
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Theodore Gill
United States
Harrison G. Dyer
Gifford Pinchett
United States Forestry Service
Roosevelt
Allcock's Porous Plaster and Other Remedies Promoted
Vintage ad text touts Allcock's porous plasters as a sixty year trusted remedy used globally. It lauds Simmons' Cough Syrup for cough relief and Garfield Tea for liver and blood purification, plus Laxative Bromo Quinine to cure a cold in one day.
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Alicock
Simmons
EB Rove
The Safe Razor Dream With a Phonograph Attachment
A quip envisions a future safety razor with a phonograph attachment ending the era of talkative barbers as a long suffering genius imagines new grooming tech.
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Peruna
Chawk Remedy Co
Rome, N.Y
Ar Souece
Thompson's
Gaines
Comanche County
Jennings
East
Pine Woods
Maine
Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
J. B. Holcomb
P.S
Ward
J. L. Ward Medicine CO
Big Springs
Washington
Putnam
St. Vitus
Sudan
England
Blue Nile
White Nile
India
Bahr-el-Ghazal
Gombert
Hall
Uslairtnture
James Bryce
English Alpine Club
Adie
Julie Florence Wals
Hiddren
Fac Simile Signature of
New York
Castoria
TMC Centaur CO
Bears
U.S
McCane’s Detective Agency
Necco & Eisemann CO
Houston, Tex
Washington, D
Chesbbrough Mfg. CO
State Street
Martineau
Cardui
Annie Hamilton
Stetsonville
Cardus
Ladies Advisory Dept
The
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn. Bi
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Albany St
Boston, Mass
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