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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
6
A humorous reminiscence by Joe Sappington about loving English yet slipping into foreign phrases during courting days. The narrator recounts misadventures with a stubborn mule, reactions from onlookers, and a chaotic night of venting beneath a dark home scene as his wife fears neighbors hearing the ordeal.
In malarial regions Herbine is promoted as a cleansing medicine to ward off the disease. The price is 60 cents and it is sold by Dyer and Jones, druggists.
Mrs. C. E. Hamilton of Dallas files a damages suit in the 15th District Court naming the St. Louis San Francisco and Texas Railway and Magnolia Petroleum Co. as defendants. The claim arises from the death of her husband an engineer on the Cotton Belt motor car who burned after a collision with a Magnolia Petroleum gas truck at a grade crossing near Dorchester July 29.
Sim Flinders recalls a man with a suspicious quart while Raz Barlow’s pet lizard stirs picnic interest at Rye Straw. Sie Kilden recalls a mountain image at a Wild Onion lantern show. Sidney Hocks ponders a Bounding Billows barber shop. Clai Hancock jokes about powder puffs and eyebrows. Dock Hocks avoids a mirror in his shop as a tensorial artist. Luke Mathewson muses on the old-fashioned country dog.
A short promotional piece claims that Freezone can remove hard and soft corns and skin calluses from the feet. It suggests applying a few drops from a small bottle bought at a drug store to instantly relieve pain and enable easy removal without pain.
In a string of quirky notes, residents report a loud dog in the front yard, a store miscounted cracker boxes, and a choking mishap with upside-down crackers. Salem Barlow shows off synchronized singing and banjo, Yam Sims sports a jazz necktie from Chicago, and Clair Hancock sells a leftover stick of wood. Miss Peachie Sims faces a suicide threat saga from an admirer, prompting her remark about unique marriage proposals in Bounding Billows.
Advertorial style note urges households to cut coal costs by using Cole's Hot Blast Heaters. It highlights efficiency and potential monthly savings while staying within a promotional tone.
German and Roberts will extend that farm loan, inviting inquiries about the rates. All business confidential.
An old advertisement asserts that all children with worms have unhealthy color and stomach disturbance. It promotes GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC as a two to three week tonic to enrich blood improve digestion and strengthen the whole system. Pleasant to take and 60c per bottle.
A reader promotes a Cole's Hlot Blast Range as the best option for the latest range market, claiming top performance and value.
Don't take the risk of losing your cotton by fire. Let S. H. Montgomery insure it.
A 100 reward offer promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional treatment for catarrh. The ad asserts internal action through the blood and mucous surfaces, promising to strengthen overall health and aid nature in healing. It claims success in any case if previous methods fail.
The Buffalo Times notes two sayings from Rev. Robert J. MacAlpine’s Kiwanis club address. It questions whether both lines came from him, but asserts the core message: honest efficient work is a worldly utility and a high moral function.
A concise reflection on aspiration as a continual source of pleasure and vitality. It likens aspiration to a solid asset, an estate yielding perpetual, joyful activity year after year. The thought is framed as a steady, enduring revenue of meaningful engagement.
The advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes as simple to use on wool, silk, linen, cotton, and blends. It claims guaranteed, rich, fadeless color for old garments and draperies with directions in each package and an official color card of 16 options available from a druggist.
This old time tonic claims to purify the blood and enrich vitality by iron and quinine. It promotes color, appetite, and energy, noting it is non patent medicine and suitable for children. The formula supposedly remains the same after thirty five years, sold for 60 cents per bottle.
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