Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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MAN AND WIFE
AND NO WONDER.
■ED-BOUND FOR MONTHS.
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IN FIERCE DUEL
ington Sts, Centralia, Wash.
“For years I
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CHILDREN IN NEXT BEDROOM
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“Don't Jump," He Shouted.
and looked at Mueller for the signal
He had seized the
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Woman Was Dead; Man Dying.
CARTERS
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
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Fac-Simile Signature
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PILLS.
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They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable.
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
_ EWIT.
LUNCH
ICY BREEZE MENACES
TRIP IN BALLOON
thefeefh-
sweetens the
breath- IF
it’s real
REMARKABLE EFFECT OFSUDDEN
GUST OF COLD AIR ON
GAS BAG.
IT WORKS
The Laborer Eats Food That Would
Wreck an Office Man.
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room before they were aware there “Sand overboard.”
was trouble between their parents.
Hope Abandoned After Physicians’
Consultation.
Chicago.—Husband and wife
barometer in his hand. Its point flew
DEFIANCE STARCH Horesstartina
Breaking In Shoes.
Frederick the Great had fender feet
and used to have an old double who
broke in new boots for him. Hot
weather is a mad time to break them
in. Every one should keep old shoes
on trees for wet and hot emergencies.
Stop
taking liquid physic or big or little
pills, that which makes you worse
instead of curing. Cathartics don’t
cure—they irritate and weaken the
bowels. CASCARETS make the
bowels strong, tone the muscles so
they crawl and work—when they
do this they are healthy, producing
right results. •97
CASCARETS roc B box tor a week
treatment. All druggists. Biggest seller
in the world. Million boxes a month.
Dying Husband Destroys Letter Writ*
ten in Italian, Probably Giv-
ing Clew to the Tragedy—*
Jealousy a Theory.
Readers ashhptvdy
anything Mirer,
tiled in its columns thould insist upon
having what they ask lor, refusing all
subetitutes or imitations.
la about the most tronbienome
thing there la. You know It It
Men who are actively engaged at
hard work can sometimes eat food
that would wreck a man who is more
closely confined.
This is illustrated in the following
story:
“I was for 12 years clerk in a store
working actively and drank coffee all
the time without much trouble until
after I entered the telegraph service.
"There I got very little exercise and
drinking strong coffee, my nerves
were unsteady and my stomach got
weak and I was soon a very sick man.
I quit meat and tobacco and in fact I
stopped eating everything which I
thought might affect me except coffee,
but still my condition grew worse, and
I was all but a wreck.
“I finally quit coffee and com-
menced to use Postum a few years
ago, and I am speaking the truth
when I say, my condition commenced
to improve immediately and today I
am well and can eat anything I want
without any bad effects, all due to
shifting from coffee to Postum.
“I told my wife today I believed I
could digest a brick if I had a cup of
postum to go with IL
“We make it according to directions
boiling it full 20 minutes and use good
rich cream and it is certainly deli-
cious.”
Look in pkgs, for a copy of the fa-
mous little book, “The Road to Well-
Ville.”
“There's a Reason.”
Ever rend the above lettert A new
•ne appear, from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
la teres L.
Cuticura Proved a Great Success.
Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau-
ty. Home laundering would be equal-
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Decidedly Rattled.
Of an Irishman, named Dogherty, a
speaker of rare eloquence, the follow-
ing amusing story is told: After one
of his speeches he asked Canning
what he thought of it. “The only fault
I could find in it,” Canning answered,
“was that you called the speaker, ‘Sir*
too often." “My dear friend," said
Dogherty, “if you knew the state I
was in while speaking, you would not
wonder if I had called him ‘Ma’am!’”
COUPLE USE R VOLVER AND
STILETTO IN FATAL COMBAT
IN HOME.
p9 You Have Kidney
A icceeeVV if these symptoms
Ah W19U0DGii are present: Pain
a .. ..... and weakness in
al the small of the back, pain in the loins and groins,
el numbness of the thighs; high colored, scalding, white
mu or milky, or bloody urine. Sometimes scanty, at
• . W others copious and clear. Pains in the bladder, chills,
•B» feyer; hot, dry skin: quick, hard pulse; throbbing in
region of the kidneys, nausea, colic and constipation.
Puffiness under the eyes, swollen feet, acid or bitter taste in the
mouth, rheumatism. These may not all be present at the same time
but they are Nature s signal of danger, and to ignore them invites
the fatal Brights*Disease.
AGENTS WANTED
line of Dress Goods in America. Big new en log and
eamples sent tree with full information regarding
liberal credit plan to responsible people. We pay
the largest commissions and guarantee the god’
Thousands of Agents have given upall other imes
and are handling our goods exclusively, nr big
leaders: Embrotdered We 1st and Dress pattern*. Re-
ticoate.shawIs,Scarfs. Infante and <'hlldren**e.
Rattenburg, Drawn Work and DRESSGOODS. Writ
for Catalog No. Gand secure sole agency.
Schwartz Importing Co., 5750 Jseobs Bldg. st. Leak, Me.
Positively cured by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dis-
tress from Dyspepsia, In-
ti i gest Lon and Too Hearty
Eating. A perfect rem-
edy for Dizziness, Nau-
sea. Drowsiness, Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Coat-
ed Tongue, Pain in the
Side, TORPID LIVER.
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bled and whirled away from the
three-mile mark. I gasped as we feli
"Eczema began over the top of my
ear. It cracked and then began to
spread. I had three different doctors
and tried -veral things, but they did
me no good. At last one side of my
face and my neck were raw. The
water ran out of it so that I had to
wear mea.cated cotton, and it was so
inflamed and sore that I had to put
a piece of cloth over my pillow to keep
the water from it, and it would stain
the cloth a sort of yellow. The ec-
ecma Itched so that it seemed as though
I could tear my face all to pieces.
Then I began to use the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment, and it was not more
than three months before it was all
healed up. Miss Ann Pearsons, North-
field. Vt„ Dec. 19, 1907.”
Fotter Drug & Chem, Corp., Sole Props, Boston.
weak and run down,
could not sleep, my
limbs swelled and
the secretions were
troublesome; pains
were intense. I was
fast in bed for four
months. Three doc-
tors said there was
way, disappear every last one—
every pimply, scaly, itehine,
eruptive kind of dineane at the
■kin—when you treat them to a
box of
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All In Fight Against Tuberculosis.
Prevention of tuberculosis versus
lividends is the proposition which
some of our largest insurance com-
panies are now trying to establish.
The Metropolitan Life recently ap-
plied for permission to erect a sana-
orium for its policy holders and em-
ployes afflicted with tuberculosis, but
the application was refused on grounds
M illegality by New York State Super-
intendent of Insurance Hotchkiss. The
company is, however, conducting an
active educational campaign by dis-
ributing 2,500,000 pamphlets among
its policy holders. The Provident
Savings Life Assurance society has
also established a health bureau,
where its policy holders may receive
free medical advice. Several fraternal
orders, notably the Modern Woodmen,
Knights of Pythias, Royal League,
loyal Arcanum and Workmen’s Cir-
cle, have already established or are
.'ontemplating the erection of sana-
toria for their tuberculous members.
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"I don't know why you moved, my
9". Your house was close to the
A Noble Love.
“Is the contract of dower properly
irawn up, signed and witnessed?”
asked the count of Castle-on-the-Bum.
“Yes,” sighed Gladys Golden.
“There are no loopholes through
which your wise lawyers of Philadel-
phia might creep?”
“Not a loophole,” said the fair
Gladys.
“And your father’s holdings in Amal-
gamated Whalebone, American Cheese
and Macaroni and Tin Soup-Plate 6s
have not been affected by the recent
depression?”
“No, dearest,” answered Miss Gold-
en, firmly.
“Then I love you,” said the noble
count; and two fond hearts beat as
one.—Puck.
No more imitation favors!
Enjoy the real refreshing crushed
mint leaf flavor of WRIGLEY'S
SPEARMINT.
Our idea of a wise man is one who
never argues with a woman.
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■ toward zero.
The desert rushed up to meet us
Sage-brush and cactus that had been
mere dots sprang into vivid relief
Hills became mountains, while the
watch ticked once. Bottomless can
yons yawned under us with jaws wide
for the prey from the skies. In all
the wilderness of rock and ruin there
was but one tiny spot of yellow sand
where death, perhaps would look the
other way.
My ears seemed to burst. Blood
rushed to my head and drummed in
my temples. My head reeled in the
heavier atmosphere. I saw the hori
son that had been a thousand leagues
away swept out of sight by the teeth
of the peaks that hemmed us in. And
still we dropped as though a catapult
had hurled us.
Mueller said never a word. Motion
less, he watched the patch of level
sand. A reef of lava, sharp as a
knife, bordered it. Yet he made no
sign.
He dropped the’ barometer and
clutched at a sandbag. I beard through
the throbbing of my ears a voice that
shouted: “Hang to the ring! Don't
jump!"
I grabbed at the stout wooden ring
that held the ropes above my head
We struck. Sand flew into my face
and my head roared with the terrific
impact. My body swung across the
basket and flattened Mueller against
the rigging. Then, before I had time
to think, we were racing skyward
again and I wa lying limp against the
wickerwork.
As rapidly as a moment before it
had whirled to zero, the barometer
was now dancing over the thousands
toward the black mark that registered
16,500 feet, as far as the barometer
would go. Again we were back in
the skies that tossed us to destruc-
tion one moment, and the next sud-
denly snatched us from the claws of
rock.
So fast did we rise that we shot
tprough the colder wind in the rush
of a second. The barometer needle
cast a shadow on the last mark on
the dial, and still the big bag of gas
careened upward. Mueller bad brushed
the dust from his face, and now stood
silent, watching the world drop away.
“Eighteen thousand,” he figured,
“19,000, 20,000—we’re far over 20,000,
and still rising.”
Here our lost wind gripped us again
and we were kiting eastward. The
San Jacintos were but a mere blur of
fading blue and the hollow into which
we had been thrown was far lost
among the desert ranges that our
speed piled behind us.
HUNT’S CURE
well rubbed in. Nothing like
it to make the skin healthy and
smooth and free from sting, or
Itch, or pain. Price Is 50 rests
a box. and one box la gunran-
teed to cure any one case or
you GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
Ask Druggist for Hunt's Cure.
A.B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CD, Sherman, Texas.
IcakteKs
Withe
BIVER
abts.
principals aud revolvers and a stiletto
the weapons, a duel to the death was
fought in the front parlor of an apart-
ment at 2818 Lowe avenue the other
afternoon. In a bedroom adjoining the
two children of the combatants cow-
ered and screamed while their par-
ents sought each other’s lives.
After the duel, as the wife lay dead
from two bullet wounds and two
thrusts from the stiletto, the busband
writhed apparently dying with a bul-
let near the heart and another in the
head — the missile having plowed
through the right ear—a policeman
snatched from the man's hand the
fragments of a letter written in Ital-
ian, the only probable clew to the
cause of the tragedy.
The man had lain as though dead
while the policeman examined the
body of the woman. As the bluecoat
turned the man rolled over on his
side and with the vitality of despera-
tion had all but destroyed the letter,
which he had clutched even while un-
conscious, before the remnants could
be seized.
The principals in the duel were An-
tonio and Anna Spizzirri, the former
30 and the latter 23 years of age.
What occurred immediately before
they stood in the parlor of their home
and discharged their revolvers at
each other, the husband finally re-
sorting to the stiletto, none was able
to tell the police. The two children
said they had been locked in the bed-
The Ever Changing Waist Line.
Consider the mental agility it takes
to keep up with one’s waist line. One
goes to bed at night in the sweet as-
surance that it will be under the arms
for the next two or three months at
any rate, and awakes to learn from the
headlines in the morning papers the
waist line is positively at the knees.
There is absolutely no use in prognos-
ticating anything about it any longer.
That the waist line occurred at the
waist was an axiom accepted as un-
questionably as that the earth re-
volves on its axis, but in these days
of higher criticism it is likely to be
anywhere. It bloweth where it list-
eth.—Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, in Ameri-
can Magazine.
#25222
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goll links.”
“I know; but I found the children _
were learning such bad language ” no cure for me, and 1 was given up to
___________________ \ die. Being urged, I used Doan's Kid-
HAD AWFUL WEEPING ECZEMA ' S Wks soan abva an; in J
Face and Neck Were Raw—Terrible andstrongagain" _
ttehingrrdatmmatfonnna sofeness ^’er-Mllburn Co, Buffalo'N.V ox.
New York.—In narrating a trip in a
balloon in California, a writer in Har-
per's Weekly gives the following
graphic description:
San Jacinto and San Bernardino
were blue behind when luck forgot
us and our globule of floating gas
The barometer was firm at 16,500 feet
when the wind turned fickle. With
the sweep of a northern Chinook from
the south, where the waters of the
Gulf of California breed coolness, a
whipping breeze clutched the balloon
Our flight was checked, and, from the
warmth of a moment before, we uhiv
ered.
Instantly the gas reacted. The
needle that showed our height trem-
—
Mrs. Enos Shearer, Yew and Wash-
utes before from a walk. Neighbors
who saw them on the street about
2:30 o'clock said that the husband
and wife apparently were in excellent
humor.
Deliberate preparation for the trag-
edy was indicated when the police
reached the place. The front door of
the apartment was locked and every
door within was tightly fastened. The
terrified children were crying in the
room adjoining that in which the duel
was fought.
The elder told the police that after
returning from their walk their moth-
er and father went into one of the
rooms and talked a few moments.
Then their father came out and locked
them in the bedroom. They heard
him moving about the apartment, then
go with their mother into the front
parlor.
The four shots were heard by neigh-
bors and by_policeman John Sloop.
They ran to the building, other oc-
cupants of which already had hurried
to the third floor, on which is the
apartment in which the duel was
fought. -eKa
Mrs. Spizzirri lay dead on a sofa.
A revolver and a stiletto were near
her on the floor. Both of the bul-
let wounds she had received were in
(he chest. The two stab wounds were
in the left side, over the heart. The
man lay a few feet from the body of
"fine woman, on the floor in a puddle of
‛ bloud. Within arm's length of ‛hfm
wascahe othefmtewalver. ' "1
Spizzirri was taken to the People's
hospital. It was stated there that
he hardly could survive his wounds.
The children were cared for by neigh-
bors
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1909, newspaper, September 3, 1909; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581544/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .