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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1905
Page
4
An advertorial promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for female kidney troubles. It cites a supposedly dramatic patient case, Mrs. Emma Sawyer of Conyers Georgia, and offers free advice to women at a confidential address in Lynn Massachusetts.
The passage surveys 18th century musings from Horace Walpole on winter indifference, highwaymen, and reformers, then shifts to advertisements and social commentary on self-reliance. It notes fashion and household tips, travel rail service announcements, and consumer products like Allen's Foot-Ease and Defiance Starch. The tone blends satire, promotion, and public notices.
An ad promotes Australian Leaf herbal remedy for female ailments with mail order from The Mother Gray Co LeRoy New York. A Baltimore pastor rebukes rehearsals for weddings, urges fewer church weddings and ties divorce to dilution of religious marriage meaning.
A group of Stanford University faculty in Palo Alto California has begun a plan to colonize a tract three miles from the campus and establish a new town. Subdivision and building will begin at once and it is assumed only college people will be invited to reside.
Robert Deale an eighty seven year old tradesman at Epsom witnessed the annual Derby race for the seventy ninth time recently. A stray superstition suggests rubbing a cat’s paws on the stove to keep it safe. The text notes hope as the guiding light to all.
A woman recounts how quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee followed by Grape-Nuts restored her husband’s digestion and cured his dyspepsia. She describes a nervous wreck friend who recovered with Grape-Nuts, and a mother whose appetite and milk supply improved for her two month old baby. The letter endorses Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with a slogan There’s a reason.
A Texas column reports Aunt Dick Smith a 102 year old death in Waco. plans for an interurban Corsicana to Fairfield line. smallpox in Gatesville. various local events from West picnic speakers to Panhandle wheat quality. several murders, drownings, and a jail surrender. investments, elections, and a lieutenant governor candidate announced.
Experiments at Cornell show acetylene light doubles radish weight under night contrast with daylight only. Peas also bloom and partly mature with acetylene, while without extra light no buds appear. Acetylene illuminates towns and buildings with easy, low cost production and installation. Bid withdrawal allowed until hammer fall.
An advertising feature extols American independence and self-reliance, tying national traits to consumer choice of Lion Coffee as the leading, trusted package coffee. It frames grocers as advocates of quality and loyalty, then abruptly shifts to a historical note about penny minting under Edward I.
Fifteen years of itch and sores cure claimed after three days of bathing with Cuticura Soap and using Cuticura Ointment. A letter from H. B. Franklin of Allegheny Pa. touts complete recovery in one week. Also a separate ad-like line warns against living beyond or below one's income and notes danger of being out of London in June.
An old ad claims Cheatham's Chill Tonic cures chills with a money back guarantee if it fails. It contrasts with a remark about city life and study of human nature in London. It also advertises Defiance Starch 16 ounce packs at the same price as 12 ounce rivals, and a London hotel uses potato bushels as pen wipers as a preservative.
Mayor of Philadelphia discusses the difficulty of winning over a wily politician. He likens the foe to a handsome sick sailor who resists ending a romance, recalling a moonlit tale of a man torn between a promise to a deceased wife and a new love.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for ulcers eczema scrofula blood poison cancer and skin diseases offering samples free by mail and bulk discounts. Other items note a Belgian farmer M. Aumont dying by suicide over securities rat damages to a deed box a laundry starch claim praising Defiance Starch and remarks about water reservoirs supplying English cities with fish and waterfowl.
G W Farlowe of East Florence Alabama credits Hunt's Cure with ending a decade long itchy skin ailment after a single application and one box, noting lasting relief for over a year. The advertisement markets Hunt's Cure as a guaranteed remedy for all itching skin diseases priced at 50 cents.
An assortment of old ad lines cites Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a cure for headaches and related ills, claiming freedom from after effects and money back if it fails. Other items promote Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Defiance Starch, Red Cross Bag Blue laundry aid, and Piso's Cure for Consumption with testimonial notes.
Hundreds of dealers report De fiance Starch outselling rival brands due to its extra quantity and superior quality. A young man recalls a distant past while an older man mentions Hope enabling a mind to achieve wonders.
Sidney Justus of Menotor Ohio reports relief after using Dean’s Kidney Pills for eight to ten years of kidney pain. He says half a box eased symptoms and three boxes cured him, with lingering backache and dropsical swelling addressed. Foster Milburn Co. sells 60 cent bottles. A Mont Blanc fragment worth $30,000 is to be cut into granite squares for building.
The agency offers written opinions in cases not handled by their staff. It promotes reasonable rates and features a light anecdote about a woman talking her husband to sleep after singing the baby to sleep.
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