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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1919
Page
9
President Woodrow Wilson designates Thursday November 27 as Thanksgiving Day. The proclamation urges gratitude for national blessings, calls for recommitment to principles of right, and envisions a world at peace through unity, loyalty, and unselfish effort.
Harmon Drug Co offers a large assortment of new sweet pea seeds and other fall planting flower seeds in packages and bulk for customers.
Surgeon General Blue warns the influenza epidemic may return in fall and winter. Authorities say blooded individuals resist infection better, so Gude's Pepto-Mangan is advertised as a red blood builder. Physicians recommend it for improved appetite color and energy, sold by druggists.
The proclamation invites fellow countrymen to cease ordinary tasks on a designated day and unite in worship to praise God, the Author of blessings and Master of destinies. It notes the seal of the United States and Woodrow Wilson’s signature, dated November 5, 1919, in the District of Columbia, during the 144th year of independence.
Governor Cooper will urge abolition of boards governing penal, hospital, and reformatories and create a single state board of control. He also proposes dissolving separate school boards and replacing them with one central board of education to oversee USC, Winthrop, Clemson, The Citadel, and other institutions.
The governor envisions a single central state board joining the current state board of education and higher education institutions to manage all public schools. He aims to repeal special district powers and place them under a unified state board to reduce friction and overlap and to promote cooperation among schools.
Across editorials from Columbia Record Weldon News and Charlotte News readers are urged to sustain advertising efforts rather than relying on sporadic bursts. They argue continuous space buys keep attention fixed on the firm and goods, contrasting with hit or miss campaigns.
Mrs. Lizzie Bryson of Piedmont South Carolina testifies that Tanlac restored her strength appetite and nerves after a week she felt like a new woman and two months off the remedy she endorses it publicly urging others to try the medicine. Tanlac is sold by Harmon Drug Co Lexington Burnett Whetsell New Brookland Harris Cain Batesburg Crosson Leesville Eargle Chapin W T Brooker Leavans Pelion Drug Co Cayce Leaphart Gilbert Lorick Co Irma Suber Peak and others at 1.00 a bottle.
Mrs Phillips writes that Youell's Exterminator Co in Westfield New Jersey sent RAT-SNAP for rats and it rid their house quickly. The letter notes relocation from Pennsylvania and mentions three sizes 25 cents 50 cents and one dollar, sold and guaranteed by Harmon Drug Co.
A bar keeps a humorous exchange about a tangled mustache. The patron jokes on removing the facial hair while recounting a failed kiss attempt with a gum-chewing girl, delivering a light, comic anecdote from a night out.
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