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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
3
Advertising copy promises removal of freckles using Othine double strength. Apply a tile nightly and morning, with money back guarantee if it fails. Ends by noting bold automobile thieves with nerve joke about motor nerve.
Advertisement boasts Dr Peery's Dead Shot as unmatched for worms with a single dose. It parodies police gossip and notes a proverb about lawyers, implying streetwise warnings and satire in copy.
The Woodrow Wilson administration won decisive support across Texas on Saturday as J W Bailey failed to gain any strong foothold. Bailey lost in his home Gainesville ward and Johnson County, with statewide defeats in East Central and West Texas and major cities including Dallas Fort Worth Houston San Antonio and Austin backing Wilson.
Austin report says druggists profiteering under Texas prohibition laws and selling whisky on physicians prescriptions at high markups. Investigation by R V Nichols notes prices up to 50 dollars per gallon, cost six dollars, with some pints only twelve ounces to the sixteen ounce measure.
Galveston was selected as the site for the 1921 Texas Federation of Labor convention. Delegates approved resolutions backing wage and welfare reforms including workers compensation under state underwriting, action on minimum wage for women and minors, repeal of poll taxes, legalized peaceful picketing, a 48 hour work week for all and extension of the 54 hour limit to small towns, while opposing open shop, anti-labor laws, and Sunday closures of theatres with a six day work week favored instead.
In Vienna a discovery of large quantities of currency bearing forged stamps has paralyzed local retail business. Merchants refuse certain money unless guaranteed against loss, while bankers seek a solution to the problem.
In San Angelo Texas the West Texas Wool and Mohair Association sold over 120000 pounds of twelve months wool at Merigan on Friday.
Barker Texas resident Mrs A L Fromme credits Thedford s Black Draught with easing torpid liver headaches and digestive gas. She recommends taking one or two doses until the liver acts then tapering, calling it the best liver medicine and urging friends to try it. The ad notes most dealers carry it in stock.
A reflective piece argues that awareness of ignorance sharpens perception more than mere ignorance itself. The meditative meditation contrasts blissful unknowing with the burden and clarity that knowledge can bring.
The Bayer Company explains that two glasses of water after taking Bayer Tablets of Aspirin ensure best results. Genuine Bayer tablets bear the Bayer Cross safety mark and are prescribed for colds headaches toothache earache neuraglia lumbago rheumatism heart pain and general pain. Portable tins contain twelve tablets and cost only a few cents with larger packages available from druggists.
Grace gathers and preserves all letters from her male friends. Edythe questions the sentiment, while Grace believes the correspondence could support a breach of promise claim.
An advertisement urges women to seek a soft smooth complexion and claims Tetterine clears pimples and blotches quickly. It notes southern women trust the remedy and that it sells for 50 cents from Shuptrine Co. in Savannah Georgia or by mail through druggists.
A fragment from Meg Gendorfer Blatter in Munich features a dialogue about worry and age. The exchange contrasts granddad's long life with concerns confined to the recent past.
A promotional message from Harwood Laboratories in Aurora Illinois offers a freckle cream on a thirty day trial. An extra large $1.25 jar is mailed prepaid with a money back promise if unsatisfactory. Send a dime with the coupon to cover postage.
An advertisement from Harwood Laboratories of Aurora Illinois offers a full size jar of Freckle Cream at 1 25 prepaid by parcel post in a plain package. The buyer may try thirty days and if the mirror confirms claimed effects remit the price otherwise return unused portion. Name
War department and Congress plan distributing captured arms as municipal trophies. New York leads state shares with 9.79 percent, followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois as the army catalogs 3 242 cannon, 12 000 to 12 000 machine guns, and 72 000 rifles stored at Port Newark.
Mrs Lillian Tharp describes two years of female weakness preventing walking, riding, or exercising. After medical care and various remedies she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, taking twelve then six more bottles, improving greatly. She now works at a state hospital and continues to recommend the product. She invites readers to write for free medical guidance.
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