Woman's Chickens Build $35,000 Farm on Denton County
Denton story shows Carl F. Hoffman recounting how his wife turned a $30 flock of hens into a poultry empire. Through strict trap-nesting and daily egg credits, the Hoffman farm expanded to 24 poultry houses and a $35,000 value of buildings and equipment, all paid by hens in under ten years. The couple credits independence from cotton to poultry success and enduring partnership.
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Denton
Texas
Carl F. Hoffman
Hoffman Farm
Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy Promises Guaranteed Results
A Bow-Wright Drug Co advertisement offers Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy for sore or bleeding gums and pyorrhea with a money back guarantee. The claim promises noticeable results and differentiates the product from others in use.
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Leto
Bow-Wright Drug Co
Farm Egg Care Rules and Staffing Mentioned
The farm forbids using any egg found on the ground or outside nests. Seventeen people reside on the farm and twelve are employed part or full time to care for the birds.
Wealth and Happiness Clash in an Old-Fashioned Reversal
A retired New England farmer recalls hard times and mortgage struggles, then prosperity from investments. He moved to the city, his wife pursued social aims, and their children attend colleges. Despite wealth, he feels like a failure. The piece contrasts material gain with personal fulfillment.
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New England
Three Hundred Failures Before Success for Helen J. Lloyd
A San Antonio AP dispatch recounts Helen J. Lloyd's 300 rejection slips before selling her first short story. Her initial sale won $1,000, followed by a $220 second sale, launching her career as a writer amid widespread belief that short stories are easy to write.
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Helen J. Lloyd
Miss Lloyd
Miss Lloyd and the endless pursuit of publication
The Dallas News notes Miss Lloyd’s persistence after three hundred failures. Editors may have biased early on, but she can judge her own past efforts, finding some hopeless while others, with tweaking, become strong. It praises resilience and the likely spread of her revived work.
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Lloyd
Miss Lloyd
Writing to Newspapers and the Frugal Printer
The piece advises writers to use poor pencils and dense writing to fit text, crowd words and lines, and use both paper sides to burden printers with difficult-to-read copy, noting printers have little work yet will spend time deciphering the output.
How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu
Doctors promote Calotabs as a purification tablet to break up a cold or grippe overnight. One or two tablets at bedtime with water, no salts or nausea, then a restored appetite next morning. Family package with directions available for 35 cents at any drug store.
Hayes Healing Honey and Grove Pen-Trate Salve Combo
Hayes Healing Honey stops a cough by soothing inflamed throat tissues and includes Grove Pen-Trate Salve for chest colds and croup. The two remedies are bundled in one carton priced at 35 cents, with instructions to rub the salve on the chest and throat of children.
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Hayes
Grove
Printers Lose Hair Over Endless Texts Says Terrell Tribune
A Terrell Tribune quip notes printers fray at complexity and long texts, joking that readers enjoy it less as they spend all day deciphering what it means, and they skip church as a result.
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Terrell Tribune
A Lesson for Advertisers on a Frustrated Fur Nace
A reader recalls an exchange article about a man with an unsatisfactory fur nace failing to heat his home. He becomes angry and descends to the basement to confront the furnace, illustrating a cautionary tale for advertisers about flawed products.
Nothing Like on Earth Boro Zone Healing Duo
J L Kirkpatrick Drugist offers Boro zone liquid and powder for torn flesh, cuts, wounds, and sores. Liquid claims fast antiseptic action purifying wounds of poisons and germs. Powder described as great healer with prices for liquid and powder products.
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J. L. Kirkpatrick
Lesson in advertising failures and a cold death
A speaker warns advertisers by recounting a man who refused to heat and froze to death. He cites statistics showing higher failure rates for advertisers when campaigns do not yield results and urges reliance on effective ads. The text portrays advertising as a life or death issue and contrasts advertisers with nonadvertisers.
Spindletop Field Yields Fifteen Million Barrels Last Year
The Spindletop oil field near Beaumont produced fifteen million barrels of oil in the previous year, reflecting strong output from this major Texas energy site.
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Spindletop
Beaumont
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