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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
4
A town tale describes Amos Brown famed for laziness. His son Leander seeks fame while Brown tends to a yard with an oleander tree and fears a late night bark from a dogwood. Neighbors tease him as crazy while he leaves a dying oak to fall on its own time.
Sylvania preserves memory of Elm Hill mansion on Frankford Avenue once hosting the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The July 8 1776 celebration featured rockets and Roman candles, with Adams and Jefferson among the revelers, marking an early American patriotic rite in a site later replaced by a modern apartment building.
A party game involves one person learning a donkey imitation while others stay silent. On the signal, all imitate animals, but one loud bray erupts from the chosen individual. The second note advises careful thoughts on who will pay the check when dining with a friend.
A humorous collection of lines mocks summer fashion and strange habits. It pairs odd sartorial quips with a jokey boast about a bed as a quadruped and a woolly naval quip about Missouri mules defeating world navies.
Lindley Indiana resident Mars May Fry credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with removing a four year cyst tumor after doctors said only surgery could help. The letter extols the remedy's safety and offers free confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The piece also includes a humorous mock confession about diet.
A collection of 1908 era ads touts Cuticura as a perfect eczema remedy with a testimonial from Mrs. P. E. Gumbin, claims of dramatic results, plus multiple notices for Hunts Cure, Hunt’s Lightning Oil, Capudine and Ham lin’s Wizard Oil. Also includes a quip about a magistrate and a joke from Everybody’s Magazine.
M Zimmerhauzel, a wealthy Rosanky resident, believes his eighty five foot oil well is active as boiling water and oily sheen appear. George A Sherer, 23, formerly of Waco, accidentally shot himself while crawling a wire fence in Mart Texas and died instantly.
An English firm awaiting Japon arrival received a dubious Japanese agent letter urging a staged factory strike to dodge penalties for non delivery. The missive praises a religious man, suggests forging signatures, and warns of prison risk, ending with a jab about hats.
A collection of medical advertisements and light anecdotes from early 20th century papers. Claims include kidney health benefits from Dean's Kidney Pills, Rough on products for vermin, and various quips about digestion, with Castoria marketed for infants and Simpson's Sarsaparilla praised as a blood purifier.
Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot Ease. Mrs W J Walker of Camden New Jersey praises it for curing burning itching feet. Sold by all Druggists for 25 cents. The joke suggests after a man signs his name he may marry a wife who makes him toe the line.
A Upstate church elder, amid a prayer meeting, voiced thanks for the minister and wife returning safely from vacation, praising the Lord for preserving both man and beast. The note underscores local religious customs and communal temperament in a brief, anecdotal item.
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