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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1918
Page
5
A British style ad extols Byrne bookkeeping and shorthand as modern time saving methods. It touts Tyler Commercial College in Tyler Texas as the largest business training school in America with over 2500 annual enrollments and offers free catalogs.
Advert says Laxa tive Bromo Quininh is superior to ordinary Quinine as it tonifies without nervousness or head ringing. Claims no head effects due to tonic and laxative properties. Slogan notes only a 30c price and instructs to seek E W Grove signature.
Notice states W H Stedham has bought back the blacksmith shop, assuming active charge and full attention to work. He invites favors and pledges to do his best on every entrusted job and asks for a liberal share of blacksmithing business.
A vintage newspaper ad invites readers to mail 5 cents to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package. The package promises Foley Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, with return mail response. Sold by Dyer & Jones.
An advertisement for a chauffeured car service by J. H. Garner offers a reliable night and day car with a careful driver. It lists residence phone 96 and office 39 for bookings.
The article presents recipes using condensed milk as a versatile ingredient. Corn Bread and White Bread rely on condensed milk for tenderness and moisture. Dainty Muffins and Hermits use condensed milk with flour, sugar, and spices to create light, flavorful baked goods.
Dr C Decker conducts a vegetarian test by placing an apple and a piece of steak in warm conditions for a week. The steak allegedly grows foul odor and, under microscopic view, reveals numerous horrors, suggesting unsettling microbial growth.
Instructions describe mending the corner of a four man’s coat pocket using a sewing machine with black thread. The process includes laying the coat under the machine foot, aligning fabric with pins, tucking stray threads, sewing zigzag, trimming edges, and finishing by folding down the pocket flap for a neat result.
A physician advocates a tight fitting sleeveless cheesecloth coat lined with cotton to worn next the skin as a speedy recovery aid for pneumonia. Two coats recommended to shield the patient from drafts during clothing and bedding changes.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood based remedy. It claims thirty five years of use and urges readers to start taking the medicine and request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio, with druggists selling for five cents.
Eskimo killing of animals cited by Detroit News as efficient but wasteful. Arctic explorer Christian Leden states vast untapped yields: caribou, walrus, white whale, salmon, oils, leathers, seal skins, and ivory totals in the millions of pounds across seven tribes. Also notes family return from Rogers Texas for husband and father B F Gafford’s interment. son Alton accompanied them.
The emergency food garden program reports 1917 saw nearly 3,000,100 gardens on 1,150,000 acres of city land. Value estimated at 350 million dollars, about 17.50 per family, with high retail value. Canning jars sold 119 million, housewives produced nearly 500 million quarts, about three times prior packing.
Isaac F. Marcosson notes in the Saturday Evening Post that monthly British forces in France require 95,000 tons oats 4,000,000 gallons gasoline 20,000 tons flour 10,000,000 pounds jam and 75,000 tons hay. The figures convey colossal logistical demands in wartime.
In a desk side exchange, the archaeology professor admires an ivory human figure carving while the mathematics professor notes his ivory carvings lack features below the chin and have cartilaginous spines.
A training camp visitor asks why soldiers rise at 5 15 A.M. and a veteran replies the early start helps them feel ready to fight. The exchange captures the stark discipline and morale of military training.
A reader laments the era of vast government deficits and inflated requests for funds. The post notes one official asking for 2 billion dollars and a neighbor mentioning a personal loan of a small amount, illustrating wide concern over public finances.
A reported incident describes Billy suffering a bad crash during a joy ride with his fiancée. The engagement is said to have ended as a consequence.
Miss Lucile Clayton, a student at the Ivy Business College in Sherman, spent Saturday and Sunday with her father, A L Clayton.
A wartime era ad urges improving physical fitness with Anurie tablets to purge uric acid and toxins. It cites kidney symptoms and rheumatic pains, promising relief after a month of triple daily doses and water intake. Consumers share testimonials from Dawson Texas and Quay Oklahoma praising the remedy’s effects.
Mr and Mrs Sam McMillin relocate from McKinney to the Fleming residence near Whitewright business district. Mr McMillin accepts work at T H Lively's dry goods store.
Initial reports said Frank King was sick and hospitalized at Camp Travis but later word indicated his condition was not serious and he likely will resume duty soon.
Aunt Caroline Murphy, a respected elderly woman known in the city across racial lines, died last week and was buried at Pilots Grove. She was about 86 years old.
R C Sullenger of Tom Bean has been appointed constable of this precinct by the Commissioners Court, succeeding Floyd Simmons who resigned to become a deputy sheriff under Sheriff Tom Roberts.
Mrs Ben Roberts spent Friday to Sunday visiting Dallas, taking in local sights and spending time with friends during the trip.
Local druggists report a drop in calomel sales as Dodson’s Liver Tone gains popularity. The vegetable remedy promises safe, gentle liver relief with a money back guarantee if it fails to ease constipation and sluggish digestion. It is endorsed as pleasant tasting and suitable for children and adults, with a nightly dose and no next day discomfort.
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