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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1917
Page
7
Uncle Sam seeks 10 000 recruits for war office work and urges readers planning college to inquire at the Sun office about a scholarship in a top state business college. The ad also promotes LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine for cold relief with a money back guarantee and E W Groves signature on each box.
Uncle Sam requires a ten percent levy on movie admissions to fuel wartime needs. The Odeon will act as a Liberty Tax station, collecting the tax from each ticket sold to bolster the war chest and help America send troops over there.
The Ladies Aid Society will serve an old fashioned Irish Stew Friday night week November 9 to raise funds for a piano for the Baptist church. Community notes include visits by families and local improvements, with reports on Miss Mae Thrift’s condition and school reopening.
The two year old child of a cotton picking family for W R Thompson died of diphtheria and was buried at Randolph cemetery. Community members contributed funds and help for the distressed family. S A Hodge sold dogs recently for 260 dollars. A fire accident saved an elderly man and boys when W M Melugin’s dog woke them. Earnest Smith had surgery at a Bonham hospital. B R Allison remains seriously ill. An offering for soldier boys after sermon by Rev Keene at Enterprise Baptist church raised 66 dollars.
The column notes several elderly residents in fragile health including Ye Scribe and Uncle Frank Smith, with Smith described as precariously ill but improving. It mentions a young woman staying at Perry Jones’ since October 22 and visits by Robert Allison's family near Trenton and Jim Bilner's near Ector. Additional names Fletcher Williams Mrs Georgia Fraylix and Miss Wilmer Harper are listed alongside Bonham shopping.
An 1890s style medicine ad promotes a malaria and chills fever tonic priced at 25 cents. The text claims five or six doses cure malaria and prevent fever from returning, noting it acts on the liver and does not cause griping or sickness.
The B Y P U program on Sunday November 4 features a devotional titled Converting Christian Gifts led by Cecile Doss and a Bible Quiz directed by Lillie McFatridge. Mrs Jenkins explains gifts are allotted by God and Ernest Liley cautions against selfish use. Russell McGinnis offers the poem If We Only Under stood with a sentence prayer led by the president.
Grandmothers and mothers who have raised families keep a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar for emergencies. It gives prompt relief from croup attacks checks coughs and colds and relieves whooping cough. A safe medicine with no opiates sold everywhere.
Dear editor recounts severe backache dizziness and uric acid linked rheumatic pains. She claims Dr. Pierce’s Anurie tablets from Buffalo, N Y, relieved symptoms and urges trial by mail or at drug stores.
A compilation of local sale notices lists livestock including two mules priced by J. H. Graves Jr and two and three year old heifers plus shorthorn red Durham bulls from W. H. Brown. It also advertises poultry by Mrs. W. A. Blanton and Barred Plymouth Rock stock from Luther Gordon and T. H. Lively. Vehicle ads include a Buick automobile from Geo German and a four cylinder Buick in running order from Albert Ford.
A dated advertisement urges readers to cut out a slip and mail it to Foley Co in Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley products including Foley Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets for coughs colds and croup.
The notice touts Laxa Tive Bromo Quinine as superior to ordinary Quinine for its tonic and laxative effects without nervousness or head ringing. It instructs readers to remember the full name and look for E. W. Grove's signature.
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