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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
2
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children. It claims digestion benefits for stomach, liver, and bowels, highlights fruity taste, and urges mothers to use the product with full dosing directions on each bottle.
An old consumer ad text touts Pape's Cold Compound as rapid, inexpensive relief for stuffed noses and grippe symptoms taken every two hours for three doses. It claims fast onset, no quinine, pleasant taste, and independent action, with Cuticura products also advertised for skin care.
An advertisement extols Green's August Flower as a half century old, world renowned remedy for constipation, indigestion, liver trouble, nervous dyspepsia, and related symptoms. It asserts gentle laxative action and urges readers to ask their druggist who sells it widely.
The tailor says business is improving after wartime customers began economizing on clothing. He credits this shift to postwar retail patterns and lingering economic adjustments affecting spending.
The ad touts Vacher Balm as faster relief for croup catarrh colds and sore throat than a $25 specialist visit. It promotes 25 cent jars or tubes with samples and agents prices and warns against imitations. It closes with a punch line about low shoes and a joke about extortionate prices.
Poor blood and stomach upset signal worm troubles in children. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is advertised as a general strengthening remedy to restore health, improve digestion, and purify the blood. Sold at 60 cents per bottle.
The article notes breeders use fairs shows and public displays to boost sales and reputation. It highlights beginner benefits, advertising strategies including small regular ads and farm signboards, plus catalogues postcards and follow ups. Persistency and consistency drive sales of high grade stock.
Poultry guidance explains best market timing for squabs from 34 to 40 weeks, noting they must be killed at peak condition within about one week. Details cover handling, killing method, plucking, cooling, grading by size, packing with ice, and market dynamics including flock size and seasonal price peaks.
In several North Carolina counties buyers paid high prices for pure-bred live stock over the past year. Hogs topped sixty dollars, and many boys purchased pure-bred pigs hoping to sell offspring. County agents facilitated sales of pig stock bred by boys, boosting pure-bred hogs expansion.
A local druggist says calomel sales plummet as Dodson's Liver Tone gains favor. The grocer notes safety and better results with a vegetable formula, guaranteed full money back if it fails to replace calomel. One large bottle costs only a few cents and promises a clear morning after use.
A Trenton woman rebukes a new Irish domestic for not presenting notes and cards on a salver. The maid replies that she knew but did not realize the custom. The exchange captures social expectations and cross cultural etiquette in a satirical tone.
Advertised product Freezone promises painless corn and callus removal with a few drops applied by fingers. A tiny bottle costs little at drug stores and allegedly removes corn or callus from feet root and all with no soreness. The quoted exchange contrasts American and British enthusiasm for quick fixes.
Ad claims Cascarets cleanse the stomach and bowels by removing undigested food and foul gases. It asserts relief from sick headaches caused by biliousness and torpid liver, describing the product as working while you sleep and promising results by morning.
Advice on egg production and handling for home use and market. Advises using clean eggs, shipping eggs two to three times weekly, notes Asiatic breeds Brahma Cochin Langshan and American breeds as best for general farming. Recommends market eggs packaged by shell color and protecting eggs from sun exposure.
An old advertisement touts Tetterine as a remedy for facial eruptions, pimples, blotches, and itchy patches. It claims rapid disappearance and smoother skin, and notes the product is sold by druggists or mailed for 50 cents by Shuptrine Co. Savannah Ga. The ad ends with a seasonal aside about Easter crops.
Advertisement text asserts Bayer is the genuine aspirin with directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It notes Bayer tablets cost a few cents and that aspirin is a trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid.
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