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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1917
Page
5
A veteran candidate with six daughters and five sons runs on a personal record but sees a rival gain ground with speeches. A savvy adviser drafts a five plank platform promising repeal of tax laws and land gifts, plus penalties and pensions, while the candidate weighs adding a final insincere plank about hell.
Advertises PAZO OINTMENT offering refunds if it fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days. Ends with claims of ease and rest provided by the treatment.
Spring house cleaning suggests cleansing inside and out. The ad promotes Dr King s New Life Pills to clear complexion brighten eyes and rid sluggish winter skin. Available at druggists.
Advertises dry stove wood cut to even lengths with full measure. Contact via telephone number 182, T. H. Sears.
A Tennessee mother offers her 13 year old son for service as a drummer in Lyons march. The boy plays The Flowers of Edinburgh and endures wounds but fights bravely with the troops. He dies after tending a dying soldier during a ravine fight near Wilson Creek.
A terse, period voice proclaims allegiance to liberty and union. It asserts the nation’s duty to preserve and transmit prosperity, honor, and power to future generations, framing the country as a sacred trust from ancestors to descendants.
An old cigarette-card style warning extols the dangers of calomel a mercury based laxative. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable remedy priced at 50 cents a bottle as a safe effective liver stimulant that won’t upset stomach or injure health.
Hastily mobilized troops surge in as the Guard returns from arid frontiers to safeguard national vitals. Stalwart detachments stand watch, ready to defend critical infrastructure and public safety against emerging threats.
Captain Paul Jones, a Scotsman aiding the American cause, confronts Captain Pearson off Scotland. In a desperate night battle aboard the Alliance and the Serapis, Jones closes range and uses hand grenades as his ships burn. Pearson's crew is killed or wounded, his ship set ablaze, and surrender follows.
A well known remedy, Sloan's Liniment relieves strains sprains bruises and muscle soreness with a clean liquid that penetrates without rubbing. It does not stain skin or clog pores and aids chronic rheumatic pains neuralgia gout and jumbago. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
We thank our friends and good neighbors for kindness shown during sickness and death of husband and father. Your kindness shall never be forgotten by us. May God's richest blessings be on you all. Mrs. A. C. Robinson and Children.
Grove's tonic advertised with quinine and iron offering health benefits and 50 cents a bottle. Marcus Connally of Farmersville Texas lists prices for cabbage plants at 35 cents per 100 or 500 for 1.50, McGee tomato plants 100 for 50 cents, other varieties 40 cents per 100, sweet peppers 15 cents per dozen, and potato slips 3.00 per 1000 with mail orders tilled the day received.
An old advertise scan invites readers to mail a slip to Foley & Co in Chicago to receive a trial package including Foley’s Boney and Tar Compound for colds and croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets, sold everywhere.
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