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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1916
Page
4
The passage argues that food value starts with careful buying for the family table and claims the quality of baked goods depends on the baking powder used. It promotes Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as made from cream of tartar from grapes, calling it pure and proven for producing fine quality wholesome foods for generations.
A light column humorously contrasts family life with vacations at home. It notes mother’s care, pa’s country outings, and playful digs at Rockefeller while offering tips for indoor seaside and rustic home vacations. It ends with a family visit bringing a baby to elderly parents.
A testimonial touts Sloan's Liniment relieving rheumatic pain, stiffness, and sore muscles by stimulating circulation. It promises rapid tingling relief and warmth after application, with a Philadelphia user, James S. Ferguson, praising one-dose knee relief and urging readers to purchase 25 cents at druggists.
Advices from Washington say Colonel Slocum's Mexican invasion is unlikely to end in court martial. The piece recalls a Cleveland era incident where a lieutenant pursued Indian horse thieves into Mexico, reported to Washington, rode 50 miles to a rail station, and appeared before Secretary of War Dan Lamont in travel worn khaki, stating soldiers could not hold their horses.
A reader praises a new medicine Anuric from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York for rapid relief from backache rheumatism dropsy and kidney congestion. The letter urges others with scalding or frequent urination to try the drug and mail 10 cents for a trial package or register for a 50 cent package.
Report from the Austin American says Diaz shared President Cleveland’s view on a recent affair, leading to no international complications as the lieutenant departed Washington with a captain’s commission in hand. The scene notes a broad smile from Cleveland and a smooth exit to further duties.
An advertisement claims Po Do Lax provides lasting relief from constipation with one dose, empties the bowels and stimulates bile secretions, promotes regular stools, and is described as an excellent liver medicine priced at 50 cents at druggists.
Collinsville Illinois Mrs Ana Becker describes nervous breakdown head aches and exhaustion before using Vinci cod liver and iron tonic. After two weeks she reports clear improvement and now feels well. Dyer Jones druggists guarantee the tonic to strengthen run down mothers.
Elephant Butte New Mexico May 13 work finished on the United States reclamation project forming the world’s greatest storage reservoir. Five years in construction the dam will irrigate about 185000 acres across New Mexico Texas and Mexico. The Rio Grande canyon dam stores 115000000000 cubic feet of water and stands 318 feet high 1674 feet long with a sixteen foot roadway.
A government town formed for dam construction boasted electric lights water and sewerage stores schools hospitals hotels and a theatre. At times up to four thousand people resided there under the engineer's jurisdiction while a railway stretched thirteen miles to connect the camp with a main line railroad.
An advertisement urges readers to try Foley Kidney Pills for dullness fatigue backache rheumatism sore muscles and joint stiffness claiming prompt and efficient health aid from Dyer and Jones.
A Gainesville Georgia customer H T Strange testifies after using Foley Kidney Pills. He slept poorly for ten years, but after one bottle he says he is entirely cured and sleeps soundly through the night. The ad urges two pills after meals and at bedtime to stop nocturnal waking and address kidney related pains.
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