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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
6
A regional poem denounces chewing smoking and snuff with religious urging. It laments fathers and mothers who use tobacco while children suffer, calling for quitting to seek salvation. Selected by Dan S. Hardin for est City North Carolina.
Mrs C Duckwall and son Joe visited Lake Webster with Alva Duckwall family. Ethel Conwell hosted friends. Barrow and Kariger families traveled to Converse and visited relatives. Dillion Guard welcomed son Robert James as new family member.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a trusted blood based remedy for catarrh. It claims 35 years of use, promises elimination of poison from blood, and improvements after short use. Fr. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio endorses testimonials and nationwide pharmacist availability at 75 cents.
Wanted to establish agency in this county for a well known electric lights plant. Material assistance and close cooperation will be given. Address J A Morrison Portland Ind. 24th.
A letter from Frank Mathias of Bartlesville Oklahoma to E H DePoy in Van Buren discusses appreciation for the hometown paper. He cites advertising as beneficial, notes personal investment in subscriptions and a hoped for cozy editor's home, and praises the publication's progress and his family’s happiness with their new life.
The News-Eagle announces a new three horsepower motor installed at their office. The change ends engine troubles and the neighborhood will no longer suffer the old engine’s popping noise that had disturbed residents for over eight years.
An early promotional notice describes the Royalty Oil Company owning oil under about 13 000 acres in Hartley and Moore counties Texas and seeking thousands of acres in Louisiana. It promises profits from oil drilling while asserting the company holds deeded oil rights and sells shares at ten dollars each through Howard L. Swisher & Company in Morgantown West Virginia.
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