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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1926
Page
7
A testimonial from Mr. Sam Puckett proclaims Dodson's Liver Tone cures bilious attacks and sour bile, restoring energy and appetite after calomel use. The ad claims it is pleasant for children, guaranteed by druggists, and available in a large bottle at a low price with money-back relief.
The Constitution of Lawton Oklahoma reflects on Virgil A Thompson who chose a busy Lawton street for his suicide. The editorial notes his apparent humor and spectacular taste in selecting the scene. It stresses unseen personal suffering and urges greater neighborly charity.
Harry Millarde, director of The Fool for William Fox, staged an elaborate cathedral interior for the Fox studio production at Ri Alto Theatre. A devout Catholic property man named Murphy habitually removed his hat when inside the church set, proving to Millarde the authenticity of the scene and easing his doubts about on screen realism.
Texas City has completed ornamental street lighting along its main business street as fifteen blocks of permanent paving finish. The light and power company and the telephone company will dismantle overhead lines on Sixth Street and rebuild them in alleyways parallel to the street. A lecturer urged women to strive for higher things as they had already altered fashions and voices.
In a classroom exchange the professor asks how many tons of coal $80 buys at $8 per ton. The student answers four, the professor objects, and the student concedes teachers often overlook simple arithmetic in examples.
We pay the highest prices for your chickens. Call and let us pick them up. Pecos Mercantile Co., Grocery Department. 38
A Pecos Enterprise ad style column jokes about reliability and prices. A man is run over twice by a car, a surgeon questions ether costs, and local grocer pricing is teased. It references Shour Battery Service Pecos Battery Co and a Scotchman price preface. The piece closes noting the paper priced at $2.00 a year.
Advertising copy touts Lavoptik eye wash mixing camphor witch hazel hydrastis and related ingredients as a quick cure for sore red or watery eyes. Claims include a free eye cup with purchase and notes Pecog Drug Co. as distributor.
A local ad snippet promotes safety with the slogan Safety First and urges insuring with E. L. Collings for protection of families and neighbors. It mentions Pecos Mercantile Co. grocery dept and Pecos Auto Co. and notes quick classified ads in the Enterprise, plus fresh meats praise.
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