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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1909
Page
4
The poem describes neighbors mourning Bo after a brief illness. It notes neglect of a cough or cold can cause serious trouble and claims a home remedy mix of glycerine Virgin oil of pine and whisky cures a cold in 24 hours. The ad-style passage urges purchase of the ingredients at drug stores.
A plainspoken remark praises shooting pheasants during open season, highlighting daylight hunting and avoiding sharing with a game warden. The quote reflects a rustic view on hunting practices.
An article promotes back pain relief for women featuring Mrs. Mary Hinson of Mt. Sterling Kentucky praising Doan's Kidney Pills as life changing. It notes the pills' price and distributor Foster Milburn Co. It also includes various light jokes and ads from the era.
An Aurora advertisement touts Cardus as a safe vegetable tonic for “hot flashes” and backache from menopause. It claims gentle action with no bad after effects and urges use by young and old. It cites a home treatment kit with Cardal and other products and offers a Ladies’ Advisory Department pamphlet.
U S district judge Albert Barnes Anderson of Indiana ruled against the United States in two major matters. He upheld challenges to extradition for Charles R Williams and Delavan Smith of the Indianapolis News, ruling libel claims need more than calling someone a thief or swindler. Anderson, born 1857 in Zionsville, was appointed in 1902 after study in Wabash College and careers in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville.
Harvard preserves an ornate chair long used at commencements and inaugurations. Tradition links it to President Holyoke, the Mather family, and English Cheshire furniture, with Horace Walpole noting similar chairs. The chair was likely imported long ago and now stored, only brought out for special ceremonies.
A Neuchatel craftsman invents a enamel faced watch with internal invisible hands and automatic moving figures. The design lets a blind wearer tell time by touch. Prices start at four dollars.
In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City the Carter Medicine Company preserved its exclusive right to use red wrappers and labels on its liver pill packages. The decree confirms prior adoption over thirty years ago and continuous use by predecessors and the company, marking a landmark ruling by a high court.
A short report notes a close bond among a farmer’s wife and twin neighbors living nearby. The piece highlights companionship and everyday rural life without sensational detail.
A reader recalls relief from eczema after using Cuticura products, claiming a first clean sleep in months. The page also parodies the Hessian fly and reports a Willendorf Danube figurine discovery, noting Paleolithic art and a painted female figurine found with stone age tools.
An assortment of early 20th century medical advertising and jokes. Claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, with testimonials from Walding Kinnan and Marvin, and notes on price. Includes other ads for pills and cough remedies and light jokes about Mars and cannibals.
A column-like item describes a doctor advised recipe mixing syrup of sarsaparilla and toris compound with whiskey to be taken before meals and at bedtime with shaking. It then shifts to a humorous vignette about "Jimmy" visiting a milliner to fetch his wife’s white beaver hat trimmed with orchids, prompting Parisian giggles.
A Kansas paper recounts a pious farmer’s grace that veers into a joke about a missing gimlet. The item blends old time country humor with notes on product ads and light quips about ants, mothers remedies, and other miscellaneous vignettes from era newspapers.
A spoofed ad style passage touts Hicks Capudine as a remedy for colds and headaches with liquid form in 10 25 and 50 cent sizes. It also urges not to accept substitutes for Wrigley’s Spearmint and ends with a quip about speaking well of the dead after venting insults while alive.
A fragment notes Peters of the eyelids relieved by Pettit's Eye Salve sold by Howard Bros Buffalo NY. It mentions various products and quips about happiness, Wrigley's Spear Mint, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and sugar coal granules in a tone of mock advertising. The text closes with a pun on milk of human kindness and can.
Mra Fred Certia of Cha life South Bend Indiana Mra. Lizaig Holland Brookfinl Missouri Mrs Sarah Lousignant Paterson New Jersey and Mrs Wm Somerville 195 Hamburgh Avenue appear in a fragment listing personal addresses and titles.
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