Bear Cat Becomes Funny Department Store Scion
The eldest son of a Dallas businessman returns from Texas University with a law background and buys a $1,500 car. He drives to a road house, then paints BEAR CAT on the car. His father escorts him to a Dallas store where the proprietor is asked to employ him at the button counter, while the father jokes the son is a BEAR CAT. The tale appears in The Pitchfork.
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Dallas
Son
Butma
Mr. Sanger
Alex
Texas University
Vermifuge Restores Child After Worms Attack
A child’s strength returns after worms drain vitality. White's Cream Vermifuge restores health with one or two doses. Price 35cc. Sold by Dyer Jones druggists.
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Dyer&Jones
The Right to Strike and Public Welfare Debate
An editorial discusses mounting focus on rights, especially the right to strike, contrasting with duties and constitutional protections. It cites Samuel Gompers and the Federation of Labor, arguing some privileges are miscast as rights and questioning impacts on public welfare.
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Gompers
Federation of Labor
Right to strike weighed as a defense of labor
An editorial argues the worker’s right to leave and strike is valid against oppression but warns that unrestricted strikes risk public harm. It cautions organized labor to seek non disruptive methods, noting essential industries hover on failure and society’s self preservation may oppose lenity to strikes. The piece, attributed to The Youth's Companion.
The Tragic Tale Of A Sensitive Seventeen Year Old
A Western city teen, seventeen, commits suicide after a life of isolation and neglect. He details a childhood with a spoonfed upbringing by his grandmother, a lack of courage, and a sense of failure. The piece suggests parental overprotection as a cautionary lesson.
Bayer Tablets of Aspirin Advertising Claim
An early aspirin advertisement touts Bayer aspirin as genuine and safe, prescribed for over twenty years and backed by physicians. It urges consumers to accept only unbroken Bayer packages with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Tin boxes of 12 tabs sell for a few cents, with larger packages available from druggists.
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Bayer
Kind of Boys and a Seventeen Year Old’s Struggle
A reflective Exchange argues that the story of a lonely seventeen year old, who views himself as a failure, calls for concern and outreach from kindhearted people. The piece urges readers to seek others in similar distress and offer guidance and encouragement.
Sun Engraving Offers Prompt Delivery and Satisfaction
Advertises engraving services through the Sun with claims of rapid fulfillment and guaranteed satisfaction. States that all engraving comes from a leading U S plant and invites readers to place orders.
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Sun
United States
Be a Man Poem About Courage and Resolve
A motivational verse emphasizes courage self control and grit as keys to any goal. It extols enduring struggle risking loss and not quitting, urging a rugged disposition and steady nerve to prevail, attributed to Louise Kiser with Sun advertising line.
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Louise Kiser
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement offers 100 for an incurable cataract case cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal use, bloodstream action on mucous surfaces, and lists F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, selling for 75 cents with testimonials free.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Who Wants the Job in Stocking Bank Loss Tale
A woman’s stocking bank failed after her garter broke causing loss of all savings. The incident highlights consumer risk in a financial setup not overseen by a bank examiner. The Sun and Dallas News, $2.25.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Pure Blood Power
The tonic claims to purify and enrich blood with iron and quinine to boost energy and appetite. It asserts long standing popularity, ties to malaria and strength, and sells at 60 cents per bottle in drug stores.
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GROVE
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Litten
Ness Hur
Littell
James F. Ballard
St. Louis
Mark
Sears Grain Co
J. L. Cantrell
South Bound
Kansas City
Hunt
Dyer & Jones
Luther Smith & Son
the Sun and
Dallas News
the Whitewright Bakery
Cote
Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
Ford Garage
Bob Sears
Whitewright, Texas
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