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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
6
In Sweetwater Texas on March 27 Miss Nellie Wood, her 8-year-old brother, and a 2-year-old niece died in a house fire started when a gasoline can exploded as she lit a tire. The woman mistook gasoline for kerosene and attempted rescue. One child was recovered from the ruins two hours later. the other is still missing.
An aged wartime ad recounts how Europe fronts swarmed with rats spreading vermin and misery to soldiers. It urges home protection with RAT-SNAP, three sizes priced 25c 50c and $1.00, sold by Wilson-Montgomery and Dyer Jones. A brief humor vignette about a Strange marriage and a furniture ad note a Wonder Washing machine giveaway won by Jim Jernigan at exact store event.
A historical look at the White House from its 1792 cornerstone to repeated rebuilds and renovations. It cites a total spend exceeding 3 million dollars on repairs and furnishings, a 333,207 dollar initial cost, and plans for future wings and a grand quadrangle at an estimated two million dollars. Strong entities include George Washington Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt and the White House itself.
A reader recounts trying poison and RAT-SNAP to rid his home of rats. The ad notes three sizes and a money back guarantee. Also mentions tire and tube services offered by G. W. Parker and family, and a Kansas City trip of Mrs FE A Chearn and daughter Katherine after visiting relatives here.
A Denison Herald readers notice highlights rat control with RAT SNAP, praising its effectiveness after a local farmer’s chickens and feed were threatened. Also advertised are Laxative products, household furniture stock, and local oil-field news, plus a brief note on Miss Sue and Tom King visiting Dallas.
The article describes exclusive features of design in J. 1 Case Seat Guide Cultivators that are said to aid better cultivation and potentially increase profits for farmers and growers.
A house cleaning guide suggests buying new furniture and rugs, notes sewing machines as indispensable, and offers an odd weight table for women. It lists heights with corresponding pounds and cites a presidential vacancy succession order, noting no one below the vice president has ever held the job.
A survey of 19th century notes mentions Maine as the first state to enact prohibition in 1851 and notes peculiarities such as cremation fuel needs, lost-property title rules, barber surgeons and the barber pole origin, a French mob destroying the first sewing machine by Barthlemy Thimmonier, his 1850 U S patent, and the machine's later widespread use in military uniforms.
A historical ad warns that calomel or mercurial laxatives are dangerous. It describes quicksilver like dynamite, causing cramps and sickness and claims calomel attacks the bones. The piece urges avoidance and cautions readers about internal use.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid calomel for liver issues and recalls Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safe vegetable tonic that starts the liver without causing salivation. It claims the product is harmless, non gripe, and suitable for children, with a guarantee of quick relief.
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