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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement touts Danderine as a quick fix for hair loss and dandruff. It claims a small bottle bought at drug or toilet counters will stop shedding, rid the scalp of dandruff, and make hair grow long thick and glossy after several applications.
Exports of rice reach 282 million pounds worth 25.48 million dollars in ten months ending October 1919, compared with 26.42 million pounds valued at 0.833 million dollars for the same period in 1913. Farm growers receive about thirty times as much money as in 1914.
An old advertisement claims Liquid Shit Make helps when kidneys are overactive causing frequent urination. It warns against common kidney remedies and targets both children and adults, especially nighttime symptoms, offering to supply through druggists.
A Birmingham Age Herald reader recalls a debate on Shakespeare’s best play. The man admits scholars differ on masterpieces, yet notes that after watching Macbeth his wife feels diminished, fearful, and in need of protection.
Advertisement highlights Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic and scented, part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap and Ointment. Promotes its use for face skin baby and dusting, claiming it renders other perfumes superfluous.
A mistress and her servant girl argue over pay as the maid threatens to quit rather than accept reduced wages. The mistress, fearing neighbor judgment, trims expenses to appear able to keep the household.
An old home remedy suggests mixing Bay Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine with water to darken faded gray hair. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade, with claims of soft glossy hair and no scalp staining.
In a crowded session a reader asks about a free seed scheme in congress and another remarks that it is a plant. The exchange turns on the idea of political schemes being exposed as covert plots.
An old fashioned advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion, cleanses the stomach, stimulates bile, and cleanses the blood. It claims use in thousands of households worldwide for over fifty years and lists indigestion, nervous dyspepsia, sluggish liver, and related conditions as benefitted. Sold by druggists and dealers everywhere with a call to try a bottle and avoid substitutes.
A terse exchange highlights the urgency of rising prices as one speaker accuses another of neglecting the high cost of living while insisting the hustle for better pricing continues. The dialogue reflects labor and economic strain in a brisk, period-voice exchange.
Adventurous youth Curly Filendrau and his partner Mac join a horse stealing escapade in Saguache Arizona. After a posse pursues them Mac is killed, Curly is wounded and captured. Kate Cullison saves Curly from lynching. Curly aids Soapy Stone, learns of rivalries with Laura London and Sam Cullison, and travels with Sam to a London ranch while detective moves unfold.
Curly overhears ciphered threats and plans to run with loot as Soapy and Blackwell plot payback. Flandrau plots with Sam and a Chalkeye meeting to discuss a mysterious business while Curly eavesdrops from a hidden booth.
Curly slats Davis and side players plot to trap Soapy Stone while Curly faces danger and vows to stand his ground. In a tense sequence at the Del Mar hotel the plan shifts as Curly meets Kate Cullison and her father, with Luck and Maloney coordinating a tense lookout against a volatile confrontation.
A French inventor has devised a clock winding device powered by air pressure generated when doors are opened and closed. The mechanism uses door movement to create stored pressure to wind clocks.
Omaha reader Mrs J C Elmquist reports long time use of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and praises Sanative Wash. Ad urges women to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co with confidential replies from women.
Chest congestion and heavy cold warnings urge prompt use of Dr King’s New Discovery. The ad touts fifty years of relief from congested chests coughs and grippe with 60 cents or 1 20 per bottle. Instructions urge dosing for both adults and children at local druggists.
Claiming to restore natural digestion, the ad touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a mild purge that eases biliousness and stomach sourness. It warns against harsh purgatives and promotes gradual, comfortable bowel regulation at 25 cents from druggists.
Dialogue frames a marriage and army discharge scene with a humorous taunt about looks. An advertisement touts Roman Eye Balm as a remedy for eye inflammations, while a final quip notes a married man’s head-of-house claim as enough.
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