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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
4
A notice explains risks of adulterated white lead and promotes National Lead Company’s Dutch Boy Painter as a purity guarantee. It invites property owners to test products and obtain a free painting book from National Lead Company in New York.
San Angelo broker sells a black bear for 150 dollars in Mineral Wells. A Galveston contractor Captain William Lucas dies from a fall. Two boys drown in the Colorado river at Smithville. Austin social and political obituaries appear as September ends. Fires, assaults, and civic notes run through Mineral Wells Dallas Paris Waxahachie and Denison with varied losses and incidents.
A satirical fable from Puck recounts a rich man who chews everything 47 times to restore health and save his soul. He swallows a camel while straining at a gnat, and the camel, chewed 47 times, becomes fit to pass through the eye of a needle, allowing his entry to Heaven.
Doniphan Missouri resident Geo E Paddock endorses Hunt's Lightning Oil as the finest emergency remedy for cuts burns sprains aches and pains. He asserts confidence in its effectiveness and claims no equal exists for such ailments.
An exchange ponders the risk if the candidate is not elected. It frames the office as crucial for the state and suggests the state bears responsibility for any ensuing calamity if the man is kept from saving it.
Hicks Capuchine is advertised as a liquid tonic that eases nervous fatigue worry and sleeplessness. A trial bottle costs 10 cents with regular 25 cents and 60 cents sizes available at druggists.
London remained a busy port as records show 29,208 vessels entered the port in the previous year. Port authorities noted continued activity across trade routes and docking facilities.
The passage highlights the silent suffering of women due to domestic duties and pressures. It portrays women overburdened by keeping homes neat and children well dressed, suffering aches and pains, and needing help to overcome burdens they silently endure.
An old advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy for female ailments. It lists conditions like displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration and invites women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
A New York lawyer, traveling for a coal firm, seeks directions in Berks county Pennsylvania. He asks a German farmhouse resident how far to the next village. She replies in vague, humorous terms and leaves him no precise distance to steer by.
An army captain stationed near a pond with many bullfrogs, awakened by their loud croaks, orders the sentry to tell the sergeant to drag the cow out of the marsh. The incident highlights his unfamiliarity with bullfrogs and the misinterpretation of the noisy environment.
Clifton Lawrence of Helena Oklahoma Territory reports severe eczema relief after using Hunt’s Cure. He says one application relieved symptoms and one box cured him, asserting it would cure any itching.
A church appointed a committee to raise funds for a chime of bells. After visiting nearly the entire congregation they spoke to a poor member who offered what he could and suggested a whistle instead, asking if that would be cheap.
Catarrh is described as a constitutional disease not curable by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Cure, taken internally, purports to act on blood and mucous membranes. Marketed as non quack medicine, endorsed by a physician, with testimonials offered, sold by Cruce ts at 75 cents.
A steel magnate jokes about his son Reginald's wedding trip while his wife seeks to verify if the bride, described as a paragon, belongs to an inferior family. The page also advertises Hunt's Lightning Oil for chiggers and mosquitoes and John R. Dickey's eye water with a note on honesty.
A Philadelphia Press fragment notes a hired girl and promotions for Simmons Sarsaparilla to boost health, Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen feet, and a proverb praising debt payment as true to one’s trust.
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