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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
8
In Pawnee Oklahoma on Monday Mrs Florence Roe received a ninety nine year sentence in the penitentiary for killing her husband. The Honey Grove Signal mocks Oklahoma juries contrasting with Dallas and Fort Worth juries suggesting many local women killed husbands and that the penitentiary houses many such offenders.
Baker of Brownsville recommends Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe no opiate cough remedy for children with lasting relief. A rabid dog in Commerce bit thirty people before being killed and headed to the Pasteur Institute in Austin for confirmation. Whitewright and other towns may act only after an incident.
A vintage advertisement promotes a lemon based skin whitening lotion called orchard white. It instructs squeezing two lemons into a bottle, adding orchard white, and shaking to create a quarter pint lotion. The ad claims daily facial massage reduces freckles tan sallowness redness and rough skin for a smooth clear complexion while noting the product is harmless.
J. L. Bradford of Colorado Springs Colorado spent several days recently with relatives and friends here and at other nearby towns.
About two hundred young men from Fannin County were summoned to training stations as part of the general mobilization proceeding since last Saturday, signaling a broad selective effort.
Sherman Texas officials announce five cash prizes of 50 40 30 20 and 10 to winners of agricultural and school exhibits from one and two teacher districts in the Red River alley Fair on October 16. The contest grades black land sandy land cotton land corn land fruit land and grain land equally. Teachers pupils trustees and patrons show strong interest in the event and premium funds may fund school equipment church goods or other community needs.
Sherman Texas crowd crowns corn as a fair king. Dr Dave Saunders USDA seed breeding expert praises 1916 corn show as Texas best since 1913 8 Dallas state. Ten ears shown by R A Owens Woodville Oklahoma named Grand Champions. 1917 exhibit expected to top last year.
Sherman Texas youth in Boys Corn Cotton Pig Peanut and Beef clubs are to be honored at the Red River Valley Fair on October 16 with cash premiums totaling 160 dollars. President Mills notes scholarships at Austin College and Sherman Business College for farm boys. Grayson County club boys may also compete at district fairs before the state fair.
W C LeBarron, Jersey expert, says the Jersey cow remains the best all round and most dependable money maker for Texas farms. He notes Jerseys convert feed into money via the butter route and strong premiums are expected. Lyons farm Jerseys will display but skip premiums at the Red River Valley Fair October 16 in Sherman Texas.
An early advertisement extols Foley's Kidney Pills as a tonic to purify blood and ease aches and pains. It urges readers to buy the remedy to combat overwork and fatigue.
An old patent medicine ad promotes Six-Sixty-Six as a malaria and chills fever remedy. It claims a 5 or 6 dose course breaks malaria with an 8 tonic preventing fever return, and that it acts on the liver without causing gripe. Price 25 cents.
In Gainesville Georgia a letter from H T Strange claims Foley Kidney Pills cured ten years of nightly waking. He reports taking two after meals and at bedtime with water and sleeping through the night since using one bottle. The ad touts relief from tingling, back and side pain, headaches, stomach trouble, heartburn, stiff joints, and rheumatic pains from kidney and bladder ailments.
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