The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1913 Page: 4 of 12
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from colds. It is more generally accepted that colds are the result of civilized
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tagion—ene member of a family imparting a cold to another by sneezing or
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PERUNA contains such ingredients that have an especially beneficial in-
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A neglected cold may become a serious menace to one's own life, and far
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We insure our homes against fire, our lives against death. Why should
we not insure ourselves against colds if possible by having a medicine in the
family chest that can be used at once I
PERUNA is a reliable household remedy for colds and should be in every
home, for there should be a desire to combat a cold as quickly as possible.
This is enlightened hygiene.
People who are feeble and run down are more subject to colds than per-
sons in normal health. Buch persons need outdoor life and PERUNA to help
build up a strong constitution. If you have a poor appetite that is often a
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FOND RECOLLECTIONS OF
THE OLD-TIME WAGON
CIRCUS.
We have been looking for
some time for a preparation for
Piles, or (Hemmorhoids,) one
that we could positively guar-
antee for this annoying and
painful complaint. We now have
the exclusive agency for
maid of a pronounced type you could
get in as a twelve year old for
-four-bite.”
The old time circuses were all just
alike and they used the same circus
posters with only the name of the
show changed. The clowns used the
same old rheumatic jokes from seas-
on to season and the show had the
same old debilitated steam caliope in
their parade, the identical band wa-
gon, the same two old circus tunes
and the same bunch of spavined
horses.
The first thing to attract one’s at-
tention on entering the main tent of
the old time vehicle show was the ab-
sence of most everything that had
leen advertised so boldly on Buck
Johnson’s tall ended store and the
scuth side of Bill Brown’s blacksmith
shop. The great menagerie of wild
animals that had been secured nt
such an enormous expense and at such
n sacrifice of human life for this the
greatest show in three hemispheres,
materialized into one old moth-eaten
camel, on* old hide-bound elephant,
cne sore-eyed monkey, a brindle tom
cat, two or three parrots and a billy
goat. Where, oh, where was that two
horned rhinoceros, the cloven-footed,
homed horse, and herds of camels,
dromedaries, elephants, zebras, man-
eating tigers, and above all where was
that terrible monster, half-man, half-
beast gorilla that had been captured
in darkest Africa for this great con-
solidated three-ring hippodrome, rail-
road double-header? You will please
ask some one else as I was never in-
formed. They probably got killed
while crossing some railroad track on
their way to Cave Creek.
But I am not complaining as I never
failed to get my money’s worth at
every show that came to our town.
I shall never forget the first circus
pester I ever beheld, as it came near
causing me to be a cripple for life. It
was on Sunday and I, in company with
Bob Halker, stole off to the village to
see the circus picture that had been
put up the day before. The first of
the posters we came to were on the
south side of Buck Johnson’s store
end while standing there in an atti-
tude of awe. Bob discovered the pos-
ters over on Bill Brown’s blacksmith
shop and rushed over to them. When
he arrived at the shop he yelled out
“Geewhilikins and all his kinfolks,
run here Joe as fast as you can and
look at this two-homed hipposocer-
ous with a mouth ten feet wide.” I
made a wild dash for the shop with
my mouth wide open, and when in a
few steps of Bob’s “hipposocerous” I
fell over a turning plow, and three or
four wagon wheels, and sprained my
beck, knocked a hip down and had to
be carried home on a stretcher.
I had a fight with a boy when I
was only eight years old over some
circus pictures. This boy was a pessi-
mist and an all-round doubter of cir-
cus posters and cast all manner of
sluts at the show and said that no
one but a soft-headed fool would be-
lieve in such pictures. I bore hi* un-
warranted insult* as long as I could
and finally walked up to him and hit
him. We fit all around Bill Brown's
shop and I finally got him down un-
til he took back all he had said about
the show. I had just a* soon that boy
had talked about a Mood relative of
mine a* to have doubted th* veracity
of those cireus picture*.
I am certainly proud that ncoe ai
my near relatives’ funeral* ever took
place on cireus day when I waa a boy,
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•1 have used Dr. Miles' AntS-PaJn
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Oh, for one more peep at the old
time circus wagon—the kind that used
to advertise itself all over Bill Brown’s
blacksmith shop and the south side of
Buck Johnson’s tall gabled store. I
would gladly walk ten miles again to
view the old time circus poster*. I
want to see the big red lions, man-
sating tigers, giraffes and the only
gorilla in captivity that had been cap-
tured in darkest Africa at an enor-
mous cost for this same wagon show.
I want to feel the same brand of the
thrills once more that used to chase
up and down my ypung spine every
time I viewed the picture of that vic-
ious, cloven-footed, long-maned, two-
horned horse that had slain seven
men and tw0 niggers before it had
J J been secured for this great tented at-
traction. I am nearly dead to see
1 ’ af.ain the life-size photographs of the
< > hippopotamuses that were always ad-
! vertised to sweat blood, and I crave to
] ; see the high trapeze performers hang.
1 > ing at dizzy heights by their big toes
. > as was always shown in the old time
J I circus posters; and I want to see once
’ more the bareback “equestrienne” rid-
■ > ing and driving eight fleet-footed
, > horses at the same time, with four
; ; beautiful females perched upon the
manly shoulders. •
The old time wagon .circus always
claimed to be a railroad show and
guaranteed excursion rates on all rail-
way and steamship lines leading into
the town where they were to show,
notwithstanding Buck Johnson’s store
and Bill Brown's blacksmith shop
were 47 miles from a railroad and
500 miles from a navigable river.
AU the old fashioned shows invar-
iably emphasized the statement that
one ticket carried you through the
entire show; but on show days you
always found the side show a separ-
ate institution, costing “two-bits” to
enter its sacred precincts, where,
within you were told by a loud-
mouthed individual for this paltry sum
you could see the fat woman who
tipped the scales at 846 pounds, the
dwarf who weighed only seven and
one-half pounds, the tattooed man
from Tattooland, the bearded woman,
the biggest snake in captivity, and
the living skeleton who was so thin
you had to look twice in the same
place to see him. And there was al-
ways the educated pig that could tell
you its age by picking out a card with
its age written thereon from among
twenty-five other cards that also bore
its age. I was never in a side show
that didn’t have an educated pig, and
today if I should go in one and not
find an educated pig I would almost
certainly demand my quarter back
from the doorkeeper.
After witnessing the wonderful feat
of the educated swine, and seeing
Punch and Judy worked overtime, you
retire from the sideshaw and procure
? ticket for the big show, which cost
$1 if you were a man or woman of
avanced age, but if you had no whis-
kers or were not a mother or an old
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Of fee: Room 4, Perkins Bldg. ♦
Office up-stors over
Perkins’ store.
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Th* Texas Wonder, Hall’* Great
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troubles, removes gravel, cure* dia-
betes, weak and lame backs, rheu-
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kidney* said bladder in both men and
women; regulate* bladder trouble in
children. If not sold by your drug-
let ft win he sent by mail on re-
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two month’s treatment, and seldom
fails to perfect • cure. Dr. E. W.
WILLIAM E SAYLE
Attorney-at-law
Room 4 Perkins Bldg.
COMMERCE, - TEXAS.
Eclectic and Osteopathic
PHYSICIAN
T. R. WHITLEY
Veterinary Surgeon
♦ DR. J. A. ELLARD ♦
* Dentist *
♦ Practice in all the courts. North- ♦
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♦ Civil Engineer ♦
♦ Office: Room 7 Perkins Bldg. ♦
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If you have not ♦
Keeping Cheese.
To prevent cheese from getting hard
cut a small piece off for present use
and place the remainder in cool safe.
Spread a thin film of butter over the
cut part and cover with a clean cloth.
This will prevent that hard, cracked
condition ' which ruin* the best of
cheese.
for if their funerils had conflicted
with a circus there would have been
one absent mourner, I woyld have
been at the show. I have always bee*
a liberal contributor to every circus
th< ever pitched it* tent within ten
miles of where I lived. A* a small
boy I contributed much valuable time
to them, oftentimes staying with them
from the time the first wagon arriv-
ed on the show ground* until the last
stake pin waa pulled up twenty-four
hour* later. And a* I grew older and
bolder I contributed much money to
their support at various times by
buying the clown’s song books and
coqueting with them at a game play-
ed with shell* and little black balls.
Yes, indeed, I love to think of the
old wagon circus and their pictures
of prehistoric animals. I love to pon-
der over that cloven-footed, two-
horned horse and the only gorilla in
captivity, and that herd of giraffes,
and that leviathan of “Holy Writ”
that was always warranted to sweat
blood and brimstone right before your
eyes, that adorned Bill Brown’s shop
and Buck Johnson’s store every Ocl
tober for twenty long happy year*.
I long to see one more parade of the
skin game type of circus that claimed
that their tents covered ten acres of
ground and required fifty head of
cattle to give their animals one square
meal and ten tons of sea grass to feed
their marine animals for just one day.
I wish I could go to see one more of
those dear old fakes and hear the
clown craek oneof his ancient jokes at
the ringmaster and then see the ring-
master crack his whip at the clown. I
want to hear the show man come out
between the acts and tell the audience
about the grand vaudeville concert
that will take place after the big
show. The concert was always guar-
anteed to be the best part of the show
and cost only a dime, two nickels or
ten cents. I always stayed for the
concert before I was married. I want
to hear the circus man with his big
megaphone voice and clad in a long
tail clam hammer coat announce the
names of the performers. I want
to see once more before I die Millie.
Fontenac de Swansie (age about 50)
“queen of the air,” skin the cat on a
pole at the dizzy height of twelve feet.
I am just dying to give a quarter
for another picture of Mademoselle
Francois* La Chug, dressed in a'yard
of flesh colored satin. I crave a glass
of lemonade that was “made in the
shade and stirred with a spade.” To
he plain about it, I would like to go
to just one more old time wagon circus
that advertises to have everything in
their menagerie that walks, flies or
swims, from a one-eyed cockroach up
to a Greenland whale measuring 343
feet from the tip of its nose to the end
of its tail. I now warn any man who
has it in for the old time circus not
to say anything disrecpectful about
it in my presence for I will defend
i‘ with the last drop of my life’s
blood.
Meritol White Liniment is a splen-
did application for sore throat, cold on
the lungs, croup and pains in the
chest. Saturate a piece of flannel
cloth with the Liniment and use as a
plaster. It is very penetrating, and
effective.—Palace Drug Store, exclu-
sive agents. adv.
♦ - DRS. TERRELL
♦ Osteopathic Physicians
♦ Graduates of American School ♦ :
♦ Kirksville, Mo. ♦
♦ Residence 480 College Street ♦
♦ Phone 147. Commerce, Texas. ♦
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Commanche, Texas, Feb. 17, 1909.
This is to certify that Hall’s Texas
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