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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1904
Page
3
A garbled OCR page combines seeds and patent remedies with odd trivia, trade terms, and a US ad blend. It mentions seeds and warranted packs, Irish and Jewish demography notes, a Winslow soothing syrup for children, and various domestic remedies amid stray aphorisms and a cablegram blurb.
Reports claim over 3 million dollars in pearls taken in recent years from new Miezigeippi waters. Majority, about three fourths, said to come from the Black and Whiter rivers in Ar kansas.
Lakefield Minh reports William E. Gentry of Jackson County, age 77, cured of long standing Kidney and Urinary disease after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. Gentry credits relief from back pain and overall health improvement to the remedy after decades of suffering. A French proposal, Defiance Starch sales, and various scattered notes follow.
A collage of medical claims, advertisements, and aphorisms urging cures for catarrh and female ailments, with notes on Defiance Starch, Putnam's Dyes, a detective agency, and miscellaneous proverbs and observations. The text mixes endorsements, curiosities, and product pitches with scattered social commentary.
The article extols telephone lines run by the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, linking five territories and up to twenty five hundred cities in Texas and Arkansas with seventy thousand subscribers. It notes liberal connection terms, continued investment in lines and buildings, and claims improved social life and market news access for rural families.
A string of brief clippings recounts Joe Chamberlain on tariff reform via an umbrella story, a stout woman asking a photographer to hide her hips, silent poetry and a note on radium’s mystery. It surveys light humor and science chatter with period tone.
An elderly banker recalls Rufus Hatch amplifying a fake wreck at the Battery to spur a crowd. Patrons rush to the scene after a manager's bell rumor, only to discover the hoax as the crowd disperses and Hatch returns to his luncheon.
The Rev. Mr. Cook of Concordia signs a four year contract to print his sermons weekly at regular advertising rates in a local newspaper.
Letters from across the United States praise Peruna as the cure and preventive for catarrh and colds. Dr Hartman receives hundreds daily, with endorsements from laborers to statesmen. The article notes Peruna as essential for health and claims even the Governor of Oregon uses it.
A letter from W M Lord to Dr Hartman extols Peruna as an excellent cold remedy for his family and suggests keeping Peruna at home to prevent other illnesses. The governor notes he has only used it for colds, asserting most ailments start with a cold. The ad recommends Dr Hartman’s free book Winter Catarrh and provides contact details in Columbus Ohio.
In a late century campaign style notice Salter Seed Co promotes Salter oats and other seed products with yields claimed across states and a call to request catalogs for farm seed ventures. The text also includes an unrelated line about McCans Detective Agency in Houston and a proverb on prudence.
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