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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
7
W J Temple of Delaware Ohio reports lasting relief from stomach and bowel catarrh after five bottles of Pe-ru-Na. He previously suffered distress and fatigue but now works without strain. Temple credits the medicine as best in the world for catarrh and colds and notes decades of accumulating results. Sold everywhere in tablets or liquid.
The old maid Hewitt finally wed, marrying an aviator in a brief ceremony. Jewett notes that others discuss there is room at the top for a few, and the phrase suggests social ascent through marriage.
An old ad copy notes that a vegetable butter color named Dandelion has been sold in drug stores and general stores for 35 cents. The exchange in the Boston Transcript humor column teases a Staylate clock and a late rising family member, Miss Weenie, with a joke about who wakes at midnight.
An advertisement touts Cascarets for liver and bowels priced at 10 cents a box. Claims include curing biliousness constipation sick headache and indigestion with drug stores carrying the product. The line about taking more than a Sunday salt to make a saint appears as a humorous slogan.
A Bronx resident donated a large red howler with a fierce roar and long beard to the Bronx Zoo. Curator Raymond L. Ditmars said the rescued animal, once starved, is now being fed and gradually tames, forming a quirky bond with a mustached monkey in Scarsdale.
Rt. Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania received a $15000 testimonial fund from the diocese in recognition of twelve years as bishop. He designated the money for the permanent endowment of a cathedral in the diocese. Personal friends also presented a gold watch.
Joseph Taylor, one of the last Indians near Pipestone Minnesota, keeps the stone pipe making craft alive though it will soon pass into oblivion. Red clay in the region yields material for pipes. stone is cut, filed, and polished with flannel for a high finish.
Washington reports the British School of Archaeology finds artifacts spanning from prehistoric to Coptic near Asyut. A papyrus gospel of John was unearthed in a buried pot, a rare early Coptic text likely shaping Greek gospel history. A Jewish or Syrian family lived at Cynopolis in Manshur era, suggesting broader Greek influence along the Nile frontier.
Dr. H S Crossen argues for a continuous gauze strip in surgery after listing over 200 cases of sponges left in the abdominal cavity. He notes counting methods fail, tearing, tape slip, and even lost sponges can occur, risking peritonitis and death.
Arthur Kench a 22 year old New York man escaped from the Missouri penitentiary by sliding forty feet along improvised electric wire and leaping thirty feet to the ground from the wall. Guards on duty believed him to be an electrician and did not fire when he landed on the wall. Kench arrived at the prison from Kansas City in April 1922.
A mixed excerpt includes quotes on conviction, suffering, and integrity linked with a senator’s musings. It features an advertisement for Red Cross Balk Blue laundry bluing and a note about a new law restricting debtors from imprisonment, described as a first blue sky law.
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