The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1910 Page: 11 of 12
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PUBLIC SALE
A. J. Wagner & Co’s. iStocRs to be Liquidated at Public Sale on the
Premises at Bryan, Mexia and Navasota, Texas,
Commencing'Wednesday, April 13th.
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Combined stocks aggregate $300,000.00, consisting of the very highest grade of merchandise, standard goods
only, comprising complete lines of Dry Goods, Clothing, Dress Goods, Notions, Etc., in fact all articles usually
found in a first-class Department Store. Entire stock must be liquidated before May 1st, 1910, regardless of
what the conditions may be.
No Every article marked in plain figures, unbiased by former cost or value. Stock must
. ' -............. be liquidated. FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS, SEE SPECIAL SECTION OF
THIS PAPER. Sale positively Beg'ins Wednesday, April 13, at 9 a. m. and lasts
until every article is sold, not later than Saturday, April 30, 1910.
Remember the dates. Red and blue signs will guide you to the right place. Railroad fare reimbursed to all out-
. of-town customers. See conditions of sale. ARE YOU COMING? Wednesday, April 13, to Saturday, April 30.
ESTABLISHMENT CLOSED Monday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 12. Merchants wishing to buy portions
of the stock at the same prices as advertised will be waited on between the hours of 8 and 9 on the morning of
the sale days. Goods sold for cash*only. Stock must be liquidated within sixteen days. Here are the days:—
Wed. Apr. 13, Thur. Apr. 14, Fri. Apr. 15, Sat. Apr. 16, Mon. Apr. 18, Tues. Apr. 19, Wed. Apr. 20, Thur.
Apr. 21, Fri. Apr. 22, Sat. Apr. 23, Mon. Apr. 25, Tues. Apr. 26, Wed. Apr. 27, Thur. Apr. 28, Fri. Apr. 29,
and ending Saturday, April 30. Mark these dates. Every article must be sold. Mail orders tilled and express charges prepaid. For full particulars
and-prices, see special section of this paper.
Wagner Co.
MEXIA, TEXAS.
LOCAL NEWS.
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Mrs. G. B. Connell went down
to Centerville Tuesday to see her
brother, Deputy^ Sheriff Jeff St.-
John, who was s|iot and danger-
ously wounded Monday by prisonr
ers, who made an attempt to es-
cape the Centerville jail.
Mead & Garrett handle a com-
plete line of staple and fancy
groceries. .
Luther Brewer was tried on a
chrageof lunacy Thursday after-
noon of last week and the jury
acquitted him.
Buy Fort’s Blend Coffee and
get a sanitary coffee pot free at
Waldrop’s.
The recent copious rains are
worth thousands of dollars to the
farmers of Freestones county.
From reports the rain was gene-
ral all over the county and creeks
and ponds are full of water for
stock.
Fresh vegetables for dinner.
Have Mead & Garrett send them
to you. v
Col. Crockett Boone, one of the
veterans of the Texas newspa-
perdom, has accepted a position
with the Chronicle and arrived
last week from the west, where
he has been editing a newspaper.
He is not only one of the oldest
newspaper men in the state, bit
also one of the best. He has held
responsible positions with some
of the leading papers of Texas
and the southwest. During the
war between the states he serv-
ed with gallantry in the southern"
army and has been awarded the
cross of honor,
Eupion Oil.
When buying oil insist on your
merchant giving you Eupion, the
best the market affords. None
other ‘‘just as good.” For sale
by the following merchants only:
Connell-Chumney Grocery Co.
Hendrix & Webb.
Riley & Ham.
Mead & Garrett.
Terry & Pyburn.
J. H. King & Son.
J. B. Caldwell.
King Bros.
S. Gang. *7
Just
Received
A Car of Flour
See us.
We keep a complete
MEAL ANI)
HULLS, PRAIRIE AND ALFALFA HAY.4
Our urices will interest you.
stock of CHOPS, BRAN, COTTON-SEED
T. J. Alexander
Manner.
TEAGUE FEED STORE
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Cleaning, Pressing, and Repairing.
Suits Pressed 50c. Suits Dyed $2.50.
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Everything in the way of Clothes cleaned in first-class style.'
Specialties on ladies work. Your patronage appreciated and
satisfaction guaranteed. Suits delivered free.
F* J- Housvicka. ~ Star Tailoring Co.
LEPROSY IN HAIR.
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Rais and Switches Made from
Hair from (he Heads of
Dead Lepers.
Waco, Aprils.—Under the cap-
tion, ‘‘Are the American People
Threatened with Leprosy?” the
following was given out by Dr.
W. Cole of this city:
‘‘A few days since the papers
were giving considerable space
to the mysterious appearance of
human hair being recklessly waft-
ed about a certain freight yard in
Chicago. The mystery was solv-
ed by the discovery qf a car load
of human hair, with no one to
claim it. The police took posses-
sion and carried it away for safe
keeping. A certain party in a
nearby town in Texas bought a
a bill of several hundred dollars
worth of hair for his millinery
department from onA of the lar-
gest mercantile firms in Chicago
a few weeks since, but before
the goods arrived he received a
telegram advising him not to
open the goods, as a letter of ex-
planation would follow. The let-
ter came in due time, advising
him to burn all hair at the ex-
pense of the Chicago firm, as it
had been learned that the hair
had been taken from the head of
lepers.
‘‘Since this incident occurred
it is reported that fourteen girls
from this Chicago firm had been
attacked with leprosy. In the
April number of Pearson’s Maga-
zine there is an article in which
it is stated that all the cheap hair
comes from the heads Qf dead
Chinese and Indian women. It
also states that half the false
hair comes from China and some
from a leper island in the Carib-
bean sea, where Cuba has a large
leper colony. This article also
states that a short time since the-i
head of a glqVe department in a
New Yorikri store purchased a
HiH
switch from the hair department.
Two weeks afterward the upper
part of her body was attacked
with a skin disease which the
doctors pronounced leprosy. I
do not think it would require the
detective wits of a Sherlock
Holmes to clear up the mystery
of the Chicago car of false hair.
“With this prelude to the sub-
ject, I desire to address the pub-
lic on this, to my mind, the great-
est danger which has ever me-
naced the public health of our
people. The nation' and state
quarantine against the introduc-
tion of the plague known as chole-
ra and other epidemic diseases,
and it is due to this and medical
science that the population has
not been decimated in civilized
countries during the last century,
as was the case before. As I am
writing this aiTicle for the public
I will address the public and not
the doctors. It is the oldest dis-
ease known and described his-
torically. It is fully described in
the thirteenth and fourteenth
chapters of Leviticus, which to
the scientific student is one of the
most interesting passages in an-
cient history. Here you will find
minute descriptions of the symp-
toms and diagnosis of leprosy,
with directions for disinfection
and isolation of infected persons
to prevent infection by contami-
nation. In the same connection
is given minute directions foi;jpu£
rification, which sounds to us as
the veriest voodooism, but let us
bear in mind that this occurred
some fifteen centuries before
Christ. Leprosy is due to a spe-
cific germ, the bacillus lepra of
Neiser, but so far no curb has
been discovered, though at the
present time some of the bright-
est minds in the world are seek-
ing a cure, and it is only a ques-
tion of time when such will be
discovered. It has been the
scourge of Asia and Africa from
time immemorial, and of all the
diseases that have afflicted man-
kind it is, the most horrible, for
to be afflicted with it means iso-
lation and a living death. Long
before Moses wrote Leviticus the
Assyrians and Egyptians and
doubtless the Chinese and Hin-
doos isolated all persons so affec-
ted. Even in the time of Christ
we read that the ten lepers stood
afar off and called upon the Sav-
ior to heal them, because even
then, as at the present time, in
Palestine lepers were isolated.
No better picture of the horrors
of the dreaded disease has ever
been found than in the story of
Ben-Hur. Who has not read the
story of the sacrifice of Father
Damien, who lived among the le-
pers of Molaka?
“Is it possible that 'this curse
shall be brought upon our land to
afflict future generations in order
that silly women may build up
monstrosities on their heads? I
think it is safe to say that the
foolish vanity of the fair sex can
be accurately measured by the
magnitude of the hat and artifi-
cial coiffure. My object, howev-
er, is not to lecture on the friv-
olities of fashion, but to utter a
warning against a great public
danger. Not because I wish 1o
do this myself, but as a sense of
duty where others more compe-
tent have failed to warn the na-
tion against this curse of the
east. I believe it is sufficient to
tell our ladies that more than half
of the expensive switches are
not only pigtails taken from the
heads of dead Chinamen, but that
they may be taken from the
heads of lepers. Then what will
be the result if they should be so
afflicted? It means banishment
to a leper colony—a separation
from all that is dear in life, to
linger until the body is consumed
by this loathesome disease.”
Storm at Groesbeck.
Groesbeck, Texas, April 4.—
The residence of Doyle Wilson,
south of town, was blown com-
pletely upside down. In the
house were Mr. Wilson, his wife
and little baby. He had his nose
broken and face badly mashed,
but Mrs. Wilson and the baby
escaped injury, which is consid-
ered a miracle.
Subscribe for the Chronicle.
A. B. FOSTER.
* LUCILE W. TANNER
Teague Real Estate and Insurance Co
Front Lobby, Firat.State Bank Building
Box A......TEAGUE, TEXAS •
Representing the Oldest and Strongest Fire
Insurance in the World.
Established 1906.
Successors to H. 0. Gossett.
T. W. JEANES & SON,
FOR ALL KiNDS of
Lumber, Shingles, Doors, Windows,
DeVoe Paint, Berry Bros. Varnishes,
Cement, Brick and Red Fence.
Phone 109
TEAGUE, TEXAS
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Satterwhite, T. L. & McDaniel, C. E. The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1910, newspaper, April 8, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110569/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.