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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
3
A brief, humorous excerpt notes a child’s laxative claim linked to California Fig Syrup and a Monday morning social mishap where a visitor misreads the narrator’s absence, leading to awkwardness and changed interactions.
Advertisement touts Vacher Balm as preventive and relief for colds and flu. Recommends 80c jars or tubes, carry in a pocket, and mail 30c stamps for a tube to BH W. Vacher Inc New Orleans. Warns to avoid imitations.
A shabby visitor asks for a favor from Mr. Grampson and is refused. The visitor then jokes about serving as the pallbearer and providing his own white gloves, prompting the stern response. The exchange captures a quip of dark humor from a Birmingham Age-Herald item.
Advertisement praising Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims years of proven results and urges readers to buy at drugstores or request a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Wilmer Co. and noting the paper.
The United States, as the world's largest consumer, took about 50 percent of world crude cocoa production in 1918. For the fiscal year ending June 20, 1919 imports reached 813,7,419 pounds valued at $35,953,090, down 21.6 percent in quantity and 12.9 percent in value from 1918.
100 reward offered to prove failure of Hall’s Catarrh Medicine to cure catarrh. The remedy is taken internally and acts through the blood to the mucous surfaces. Druggists and testimonials available from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A Houston Post quip notes a bachelor with a million income groans at a raised school tax, contrasting wealth with tax pain and highlighting civic finance annoyances.
A young pupil’s attempt at a heroic essay ends in a gag as he describes placing a tin tack on a chair and his father toppling onto it, producing a pun on the phrase he rose. The incident shows a child’s literal girlhood humor rather than grand heroics.
Texas will hold the disputed land along the Texas Oklahoma boundary and not surrender territory until a US Supreme Court order. Governor Hobby cites an attorney general opinion and vows to deploy additional Rangers to the Red River area to defend Texas rights.
Austin Texas 21185 teachers in Texas earned an average annual salary of 682 dollars an increase of 12.2 percent. The lowest averages were for negro women in one teacher schools at 299.55 while negro men averaged 361.23. White women 469.82 white men 573.36. Highest for men superintendents 2261.48. Details by class include elementary town schools 885 for men and 779.21 for women in towns. Rural schools 591.79 for men and 490.38 for women. High schools towns 1280.62 for men and 988.50 for women. Rural high schools 845 for men and 717.69 for women. Principals 1528.80 for men and 1476 for women. Superintendents 2261.48 for men and 2360 for women. Supervisors 1428.40 for men and 398.45 for women.
Washington reports the House approved a bill guiding the United States Grain Corporation to sell five million barrels of soft wheat flour on long term credits to Poland Austria and Armenia. The measure aims to provide essential relief to war devastated Europe.
Strangler Lewis defeated Earl Craddock in a catch as catch can bout at Madison Square Garden. The match lasted one hour, 25 minutes and 45 seconds, with Lewis securing victory using a head and arm lock.
In Berlin suburbs on Monday, soldiers and crowds clashed at several locations resulting in multiple fatalities and numerous injuries.
Municipal Playgrounds in Calgary Alberta offer baseball diamonds soccer fields golf links and multisport grounds. The city serves about 6 000 golfers within a population of 75 000.
A bold beauty ad touts Danderine as a stimulant for hair growth and vitality. It claims long thick shiny hair with renewed color and vigor and urges readers to buy a 35 cent bottle at drug or toilet counters to refresh the scalp and curb dandruff.
Spratt laments loneliness and gloom as Sponger offers aid for a price, saying I need 5 dollars to become a friend. The exchange highlights relations built on necessity rather than affection.
A vintage advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup as a remedy for coughs bronchitis and colds. It claims influenza fatalities outpaced World War casualties and highlights forty three years of use in homes worldwide. It emphasizes better sleep and easy morning expectoration. Made in America and sold everywhere.
Real Signa and a crew member discuss an incoming squall they observe from the rocking boat. The pair confirms their guess about a baby squall forming as the seas rise and the vessel shudders in the wind.
A senator defends privacy saying the public fills gaps in knowledge with belief of busy work. The exchange highlights the strategic silence value in politics and media exposure.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a magic remedy that lifts corns and calluses quickly. It emphasizes painless, easy treatment and claims immediate relief by applying the product to affected toes or feet.
A tiny bottle of Freezone, costing only a few cents, is applied to tender corns or calluses to stop pain. The drops loosen the corn or callus and lift it out with little to no irritation. The ad touts Freezone as a quick, simple cure for hard and soft corns and toe calluses.
An old advertisement promotes Bond's Liver Pills claiming they purify the blood and air, remove constipation biliousness and headaches, and eliminate poison to prevent flu. It urges readers to buy for two shillings and sixpence from all druggists and keep health safe.
Georgette and Tricotine banter about a costly hair dye using six bottles of tomato ketchup. The joke ends with a wife reading the news and spotting no scams beyond bargain tips, in a light London Answers moment.
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