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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
5
A Texas infantryman in London met King George and Queen Elizabeth at the Eagle Y M C A hut. The doughboy pressed through the crowd and greeted the king with his Texas drawl, declaring friendship and admiration for the English soldiers. The king reportedly enjoyed the moment.
A testimonial from Mrs Blanche Bowers of Indiana Pennsylvania claims Chamberlains Tablets cured long standing digestion problems. She says after a year of poor appetite she found relief and now digests food normally thanks to the tablets.
Sunday evening program at 7 30 features a devotional on Why Men are not Saved. Scripture reading from Ephesians 8 17 18 19. Leader Miss Olive Neff gives instructions. Speakers include Elvy Hampton Eunice Cook Adah Truett Cecile Doss.
An old advertisement touts Laxa tive Bromo Quinine as superior to ordinary quinine with tonic and laxative effects. It claims it does not cause nervousness nor ringing in the head and urges readers to note the signature of E. W. Grove and buy at 30 cents.
Ritey Williams invites farmers to bring cane millet maize or kaffir seed to his residence four miles north of Whitewright on Wednesday September 18. He will thrash for 20 cents a bushel promising savings versus 4 to 5 dollars a bushel for future seed and offering buyback of surplus seed next spring.
An advertisement claims children troubled with worms have pale skin and stomach issues. It promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a two to three week treatment to enrich blood improve digestion and act as a general tonic and asserts worms will be expelled with the child returning to perfect health. It markets the tonic as pleasant to take at 60 cents per bottle.
An old settler recalls boyhood in Missouri with pheasants and deer near a lawn, traps for quails, hog slaughter in the woods, bee trees, and low prices. He notes wheat at three bits per bushel, horses 20 to 24 dollars, cows 7 to 30, rails 37.5 cents, a year’s wage for a negro at 40 dollars, and modest living with handmade goods and weekly biscuits.
A wartime exhortation argues that paying for the war requires mortgaging future earnings. It urges citizens to buy Liberty Bonds and to sacrifice now by mortgaging homes farms or cars, stressing the duty to self and others and promising moral and financial gain.
An advertising note touts SANOL ECZEMA REMEDY as removing black heads pimples and rough skin and claims cures eczema. It promises pleasant use and urges a trial with prices 50c and 1.00 at the drug store.
The text argues against funding wartime needs from past savings, noting farmers face low bank balances yet can profit from increased acreage. It insists the war cannot be waged on past savings or income, but only by mortgaging future productivity to finance production and mobilize capital.
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