World's Champion Farmer Uses Million-Dollar Machinery
America's ex-power farmer Thomas D. Campbell farms 35,000 acres with over 250 workers using a million dollars in equipment. He plows with 15 tractors in a six-mile straight line, setting records for threshing and plowing. Campbell, born in a sod hut, treats farming as a factory, hires top skilled workers, and links wages to performance while promoting cleanliness and professionalism.
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Ard
Mont
America
Thomas D. Mobell
Campbell
Chamberlains Tablets for Stomach Liver and Bowels
Biliousness sick headache and constipation are easily avoided by taking Chamberlains Tablets for stomach liver and bowels. Never sicken nor gripe. Only 25c.
Hogwallow News Oddities and Local Quips
Dunk Botts reports a saying on wisdom while Isaac Helwanger notes a character’s lapse in sense with age. Tobe Moseley recalls an enjoyable night as his pet cricket sat on the hearth. Columbus Allsop, who began year with pinning, needed a doctor for his back. Raz Barlow approached Miss Flutie Belcher, and Washington Hocks muses on changing locations. Jefferson Paddocks reads an article on fallen children, interrupted by one of his five falling off the porch.
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Tobe Moseley
Pety
Jefferson Paddocks
Prevents Infection with Borozone Healing Compound
A vintage drug ad touts Borozone as a quick healing wound treatment available in liquid and powder. The liquid costs 30c 60c and $1.20 while the powder is 30c and 60c, sold by Bow-Wright Drug Co.
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Bow-Wright Drug CO
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Vitality Boost
An advertisement proclaims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic restores energy by purifying and enriching the blood. It claims to improve color, appetite, and overall vigor, noting the tonic is iron and quinine suspended in syrup and is palatable to children. Priced at 60c.
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Grove
Frisky Household Shadows At Local Post Office
Frisby Hancock's wife visits Friday afternoon and refuses to remove her cloak though wearing an old dress. Sid Hocks interrupts post office talk after an hour, without understanding the topic, yet presents his views. Slim Pickens overhears Calf Ribs Widow ordering makeup powder by mail and ponders if it sways her decision. A yard gathering at Sim Flinders' home reveals a hen that lays when egg prices rise. Clair Hancock's wife ill, neighbors gather, but he says she will likely recover with or without doctor.
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Frisby Hancock
Slim Pickens
Clair Hancock
Clair
Sure Sign of a Dead One Editorial Thematic
A harsh editorial condemns digging up graves and disturbing the dead by entering businesses that do not advertise in the hometown paper. It argues that unadvertising individuals are like the dead and dismisses claims of selfish motivation. The piece urges readers to avoid reviving the departed through neglect of local commerce.
Publishers and policies prove a firm’s fate
The Olney Enterprise argues that a publisher’s policy mistakes doom a firm, while correct fundamentals ensure broad success. It warns against partial truths and notes rare exceptions where unfavorable policies briefly fail to ruin a business, but stresses that true resilience comes from sound, consistent principles.
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Shell
Olney Enterprise
Splendid feeling from Herbine liver remedy
An advertisement promises rapid relief from a tired discouraged mood caused by torpid liver and constipation. It claims the first dose purifies and regulates thoroughly, drives out bile, and leaves a buoyant, vigorous feeling. Price 60c. Sold by local merchants.
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Bow-Wright Drug CO
Halls Catarrhe Medicine Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement proclaims Halls Catarrhe Medicine cures catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It blends an ointment for local relief with an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces, restoring normal conditions. Sold by druggists for over 40 years, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Memphis, Tenn
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Dunk Botts
Isaac Helwanger
Columbus Allsop
Raz Barlow
Flutie Belcher
Washington Hocks
St. George Hotel
Dallas
Chas. Hodges
Luther Smith & Son
Whitewright’s
Sid Hocks
Sim Flinders
Depuy
Waco
Texas
E. W. Glove
Wilbur Carter
Kelly
Sherman
R. C. Hoyle
Lloyd Moore Oes
Creosone
Dyer & Jones
Whitewright
Hayes
Cardus
Ode Crowell
Kimbell Milling Co
J. H. Biggerstaff
Davidson’s
Winter
Home Ice & Manufacturing CO
Woodstock
Woodstock Typewriter CO
W. Munroe St
Chicago, U. S. A
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