Ingleside and Harbor City land giveaway ad
A. D. Powers announces 3250 acres on Red Fish and Corpus Christi Bays near Aransas Pass and La Quinta. Harbor City Terminal Corp is formed with 500000 capital stock, shares 100 each. Free one lot in Ingleside and one in Harbor City with each stock. pay 10 down and 10 monthly. Office at 333 Alamo Plaza. Burton and Danforth are fiscal agents.
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Red Fish
Corpus Christi Bays
Aransas Pass
la Quinta
Charles P. Taft
Ingleside
Vineyard
Harbor City
State of Texas
Alamo Plaza
Burton
Danforth
A. D. Powers
Early 1900s Optician Ad Offers $1 Glasses Deal
An old newspaper ad promotes economical eyewear at 514 East Houston Street, next to Wigwam Theater. It touts a 10K gold filled frame with lenses for a dollar, normally 3.50, plus free eye exams, valid until Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Potomac
East
Houston Street
Wigwam Theater
Aaron Frank
Mustard Cerate Advert in Texas Optical
The Little Doctor MacLaren's Mustard Cerate promises relief from lumbago congestion of lungs stiff joints and severe headaches caused by colds. Sold at Sommers-McElroy's drug stores and other druggists in jars 25c and 50c samples available by mail from MacLaren Drug Co. Cleveland Ohio or Los Angeles Cal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacLaren
Sommers-McElroy
MacLaren Drug Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Los Angeles
Cal
Elmendorf Dominates Barred Plymouth Rock Show at San Antonio
San Antonio hosts a major poultry show with hundreds attending as judges pass Barred Plymouth Rock entrants. Elmendorf, a young local businessman, wins all first prizes and multiple seconds and thirds across cock, cockerel, pullet, and pen categories. Other notable winners include S. Flemming and Sons of Waco, G. E. Carlson of Hutto, and Mrs Bruno Dietel of New Braunfels.
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Plymouth Rock
Flemming and Sons
Waco
New Dramfels
Tex
J. F. McLeskey and Sons
Poultry Show Opens in Brownwood With Big Cash Prizes
Brownwood Texas hosts a poultry show with more than 800 dollars in cash prizes for top birds in each class. Special prizes will be awarded later as all birds compete for money. H B Savage will preside at the Texas Poultry Association convention this evening and a banquet follows at the Original Mexican Restaurant. The Main avenue show runs Friday through Sunday. A new automobile fuel funnel with copper screens is described to remove condensation water before gasoline reaches the tank.
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H. B. Savage
Texas
American Poultry Association
Chamber of Commerce
Losoya Street
Main Avenue
Cascarets promote internal cleansing and regularity
An old advertisement extols Cascarets as the best way to keep bowels, liver, and stomach clean and regular. It claims they digest sour food, remove foul gases, reduce bile, and purge waste, promising a morning reset even for urgent cases and offering a 10 cent box for home use.
Pinkham Vegetable Compound Cited For Female Ailments
An old testimonial letter from Cary, Maine details relief from pain, nervousness, and exhaustion after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Other women in Charlotte, North Carolina share similar improvements, suggesting the remedy as an alternative to surgical operation. The ad urges trials and offers confidential guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn, Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Rosa Sims
Wyona St
Charlotte, N. C
Aviation claims fewer victims in wake of progress
The Boston Post notes aviators since the Wright brothers have soared to 19 000 feet and beyond, yet 300 pilots have died in pursuit of progress. It cites rising fatalities but falling death percentages, highlights advances in aircraft design and hydro aeroplanes, and discusses aviation's military and peaceful futures.
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Boston Post
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Simms Station
N. C
Continents
Alps
American Rockies
Boston
Ralph Johnstone
Eugene Ely
Cromwell Dixon
Horace Kearney
Louis Mitchell
Howard Gill
Harriet Quimby
Paul Peck
Aeronautical
Wright
Sahara
China
Paul Legagneux
Calbraith P. Rogers
New York
Los Angeles
Rodgers
Sheepshead Bay
Nowa
Pacific Coast
Pasadena
Cal
Rogers
Jules Vedrines
Chicago
France
Lincoln Beachey
Beachey
At Hofheinz Hardware Store All Stores at Cost
Miss Annie Withers of Prince's Bay S I a factory worker has just fallen heir to 600000 Giovanni Pace a Philadelphia musician the other day played the march for his own wedding Pay your poll tax at 219 Losoya Street Hofheinz Hardware Store in a cost sale notice style
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Hofheinz Hardware Store
Losoya Street
Annie Withers
Prince’s Bay,s. I
Giovanni Pace
Philadelphia
Treatment offers catarrh cure and Oxylene therapy
An advertisement extols 50c catarrh treatments claiming to stop sneezing clear the head and strengthen the system. It promotes Oxylene therapy at Terrill Medical Inst San Adieu Texas with hours and contact, plus Blackburn’s Casca Royal Pills as a laxative and cathartic remedy.
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Beteem
Terrill Medical Inst
Hicks Brig
San “Adieu, Tex
Blackburn
Williams Kidney Pills advertised for nervous strain relief
An advertisement promises Williams Kidney Pills will ease kidney and bladder troubles from overwork. It targets pains in loins sides and back and young looking faces with dark under eyes. Sold by all druggists at a price not specified.
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Williams
Intense Heat Advances in Industrial Fire and Welding
The article surveys progress in extreme heat from 50 tons per square inch pressures in detonations to fuel furnaces reaching 1700 to 2800 degrees C. It describes oxy hydrogen flames hitting 2000 C, thermit welding with aluminum and iron oxide, and a centrifugal method concentrating oxygen to boost flame intensity. It highlights quartz melting for chemical vessels and paper industry coal savings.
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New York American
Agency of Man
Andrew Noble
Want ads run ten days with two Sundays cost half a cent a word
Classified notice offers ten day run with two Sundays at one half cent per word per insertion. Example: a 15 word ad for ten days including two Sundays costs five cents. Telephone ads to be billed later. Old Crockett 1742. New phone 176.
Doctor Answers on Health and Beauty Questions
A syndicated Q and A by Dr. Lewis Baker provides home remedies and drugstore treatments for bed-wetting, stomach and catarrh issues, dandruff and hair loss, weight gain, rheumatism, bronchial trouble after singing, digestion related to appendicitis, sleepless nerves, obesity, and chronic constipation with specific tonics, mixtures, and tablet recommendations.
New York Subway Carrying Record Passengers Last Year
New York City subway carried 203,973, S58 passengers last year, a rise of about 26 million from 1911. The report notes New Yorkers felt crowds were suffocating amid growing transit demand and dense urban life.
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New York City
Before and After Marriage Cardui Testimonial Ad
A woman from Pollock Texas recounts health after teen years and after marriage, praising Cardui as the greatest woman's medicine. The letter claims Cardui, a vegetable tonic, rebuilt health, offers guidance, and includes Chicago Tennessee and Chattanooga addresses for case instructions and a 64 page home treatment book.
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Tex
Winnie Delaney
Cardus
Paaies Aries Poo T. Chattancoge
Arrep Tenn
Modern Prethods School Offers One Week Free Lessons
An advertisement from Modern Prethods School promises a week of free lessons to anyone at any time. It lists contact details at Prudential Life Building former Washer Building with office Crockett 1553 and residence Crockett 1796.
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Prudential Life
Crockett
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Catarrhal Pv
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Maine
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia DB. Pinkham
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Union Stock Yards
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Germany
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Jowin Baker
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Bisle M
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Commerce St
NOA Sprars Co
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