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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
8
Physicians promote Calotabs as a simple overnight cold remedy. Take one tab at bedtime with water for a purified system and active liver by morning. no salts or nausea. Sold sealed, 35 cents, with money-back guarantee if not delighted.
An advertisement outlines Bayer aspirin as genuine Aspirin in Bayer Tablets of Aspirin sold in Bayer packages with directions for headache cold pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It notes Bayer as the genuine aspirin prescription name for nineteen years and mentions a 12 tablet tin costing a few cents. It also states Cuba imports about 38 million dollars worth of U S potatoes annually.
An old advertisement reiterates that California Fig Syrup is a safe laxative for children, urging parents to match the label and follow dosing directions. It promotes the product’s fruity taste and reassures mothers to give it without fear while warning against poisons in stomachs and bowels.
The ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as fast relief for severe colds and grippe misery. It claims a dose every two hours, up to three doses, opens nostrils, stops nasal discharge, relieves headache fever dullness sneezing and soreness, and costs only a few cents.
Mexico declares there is no legal basis in international law for the United States demand to release William O. Jenkins, the U S consular agent in Puebla. Hilario Medina states imprisonment follows local judicial procedure and the executive cannot interfere with Puebla state judiciary.
Dispatches report an influenza epidemic in Linares near Granada with over two thousand residents ill at present. The outbreak follows Madrid measures as Spain battles the illness.
Rome reports King Victor Emmanuel will travel to the United States next summer and then tour South America visiting Brazil Uruguay Argentina Chile and Peru.
Texas items cover a range of topics from war costs and road bonds to social changes and state permissions. It notes a wartime tax figure of 38 149 602 50 for 1918, approval of 500 000 special road bonds for Franklin County, and the Texas Fox Hunters Association forming at Ratcliff. It mentions abolishing wartime telecom charges, women becoming banking incorporators, and a memorial tree for WWI dead at Texas A&M. It also references liquor permits for state institutions and increased ranger needs with broader alcohol transport permissions.
A Laredo immigration official says unauthorized crossers under cover of darkness near Laredo are increasing to alarming levels, signaling growing smuggling activity along the boundary with Mexico.
Liberty County commissioners set December 22 for an election to authorize $1,674,000 bonds for a county wide good roads system. The measure aims to connect rural roads and improve county infrastructure. In Cameron and Hidalgo counties, landowners formed the Rio Grande Flood Conservation and Drainage Association at Harlingen to address flood control and drainage after heavy flooding this fall.
Governor Hobby may nominate 50 Texas National Guard members for the United States Military Academy at West Point, raising plans from an initial 13 and then one. A Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling concerns auto tax seals and intent. An infestation of pink bollworm leads Hardin County to destroy cotton and seed, with compensation, under government supervision. Silsbee centers the infested area.
The tri county teachers institute becomes Central West Texas Teachers’ Association with Throckmorton County added. An institute will be held in Stamford December 15 to 19 with speakers Miss Annie Webb Blanton Dr Vinson Dr Lovett Dr Mobley and Dr Sackett among others.
The Texas pecan crop is large this season prompting the rail road commission to seek extending pecan carload rates to noncontrolled routes as well as federal ones. Minimum car weight 30,000 pounds. rates rise with distance from ten to 500 miles. Minimum 17 percent single line, 24 cents joint haul, up to 75 cents at 500 miles. over 500 miles 75 cents single, 80 cents joint. Forty nine rate steps exist with varying distances. A differential table starts at 1 percent for 40 miles, rising through twenty graduations to 22.4 percent at 2650 miles and 23 percent for over 250 miles.
The International Institute of Agriculture in Rome reports bumper crops this year in wheat, corn, barley, rye, sugar beets and rough rice, with corn up 14.8 percent from last year and near 4.4 percent above the five year average. Wheat, oats and flaxseed decline from the five year average.
Texas records from the state highway department show 323,235 motor vehicle registrations to date with 60,052 transfers 24,759 chauffeur licenses 3,804 motorcycles and 3,210 dealers licenses. Indications are total registrations will exceed 325,000 by year end in Austin.
Colonel Fred rico Elias reports Yaqui Indians raided Chinese ranches south of Moctezuma injuring six Orientals and killing one during the plunder that also seized valuables and drove off livestock.
Drillers and gas experts in South Versailles township near McKeesport report a major new field with strong potential. In three months since the first strike the field produced over $1,000,000 worth of gas, making it one of the best producing regions in the nation.
Middleboro Massachusetts reports the death of Countess Primo Magic known to the public as Mrs Tom Thumb. She died at her home Tuesday after a long illness at age 77. She traveled around the world several times under P T Barnum's management.
Baton Rouge reports cane shipments from east of the Atcha falaya river to the west have been barred by order of acting state entomologist W. EB. Anderson to stop mosaic disease spread to sugar cane.
The Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board announced a world wide campaign against hookworm. The report notes cooperation with Brazil Central America the West Indies the Far East and twelve U.S. states in the last year.
Fifty 155 millimeter Schneider howitzers were added to Fort Bliss on Tuesday reportedly the largest guns ever brought to the border. The $45,000 each ordnance increase brings the total value of munitions stored at the post to many millions of dollars.
Austin reports thirty nine automobile dealers paid license fees in the past week, bringing the state total to date to two hundred eighteen dollars.
In Bismarck the North Dakota state senate approved the federal suffrage amendment by a 43 to 2 vote on Thursday, clearing the measure for statewide effect and sending it to the governor for final action.
An old advertisement touts Danderine as a cheap cosmetic to transform dull hair. It claims the tonic adds softness gloss and fullness, removes dust and oil, nourishes the scalp and may help hair grow longer thicker and stronger. It ends with a pithy line about a good man's worth.
An advertisement touts Vacher Balm as superior for croup catarrh colds and sore throat. It notes a price of 30 cents per jar or tube and urges samples and agents prices while warning against imitations. EB W Vacher Inc New Orleans La Adv.
The ad touts Indian Vegetable Pills to tone the liver and improve circulation. It warns of a torpid liver and inflation problems while urging men to stop fooling themselves and their wives about health.
A vintage advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsia as instant relief for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims tablets end stomach distress, acidity, belching, and headaches soon after meals and at low cost in drug stores. Rest is praised as essential after hard labor.
Cuticura Soap daily and Ointment as needed to clear complexion scalp and hands. Include Cuticura Talcum for a fragrant addition. Advertised as the Cuticura Toilet Trio for skin scalp and hands.
A pithy adage reflecting on the challenge of gathering one’s thoughts versus obtaining money. The saying contrasts mental clarity with financial burden in a concise moral viewpoint.
An advertisement states deafness from catarrh can only be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken through the blood. It explains the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers a $100 reward for success, with free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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