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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
17
The latest protection for American soldiers is a bullet proof vest that stops revolver bullets and shrapnel. It weighs 412 lbs, uses non magnetic material, and has been officially tested to resist shrapnel at 1200 feet per second. The vest is flexible, covers the side and abdomen, and protects vital organs against all standard bullets from revolvers or pistols, including German 7.65 Mauser rounds.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe pleasant vegetable liquid that purports to start the liver without salivation, contrasting it with calomel which it calls dangerous and mercury-based. It claims quick relief from biliousness constipation headaches and stomach issues, urging readers to buy and try with a money-back offer.
Fort Worth Texas September 30 soldiers stopped a civilian who tried to enter an army airplane and flee. The 28 year old, who carried a Oklahoma City registration card, claimed to supervise land holdings in Texas and Oklahoma and said he needed the craft to tour his properties promising to pay bonds in five installments.
Bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan may be bought with payment schedules at ten percent by October 19, twenty percent by November 15, twenty percent by December 15, twenty percent by January 15, and thirty percent by January 30. The 4 percent interest rate applies. Bonds dated October 24, 1918, with first interest due April 15, 1919, and semiannual payments thereafter, allow about three and a half months to complete payments.
Timetable lists southbound trains including No. 3 Local No. 9 Limited and No. 5 Flyer with morning and evening departures. Flag stops cover Dallas and points south. Northbound services No. 8 Local run mid and night. Westbound Cotton Belt and Eastbound services are noted with irregular OCR text.
An advertisement promotes a 50 cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN as a pleasant liquid laxative for indigestion constipation and biliousness. Paris Medicine Co. markets it alongside Laxative Bromo Quinine Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic.
Reported advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Claims the remedy works through the blood and mucous surfaces and builds constitution with internal use. Promises testimonials and lists contributors, with price 76 cents at druggists.
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