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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
3
The article reports broad reductions in department store prices across clothing and silk, with silk goods to remain discounted. Merchants note a surplus of clothing, cautious demand, and expectations of continued downward trends into fall, while wholesalers seek price concessions and demand easing in textiles.
Detroit city council imposed a 100 percent increase in assessed valuation on Jacob Shevitz, owner of a nine family apartment house, for allegedly raising rents from 42 to 90 dollars per month.
William Muhlendore reported his gold watch lost four years ago. His son-in-law plowed it up on the farm. The watch was in excellent condition, its hands showing the correct time but it was not running when found. A new life-saving buoy invention from Europe is hammock shaped and large enough for a man to propel himself with a paddle.
Professor Rice recounts a February clash near the Orinoco with giants described as the Guaribos tribe. The expedition led by Dol Alexander Hamilton Rice killed two or three attackers and retreated, noting the cannibals as nearly white and over six feet tall.
Dr. Victor D. Lespinasse of Northwestern University demonstrates interstitial gland transplant in a hen, which develops combs wattles saddle feathers and spurs and struts like a chanticleer. The experiment aims to show sex change possibilities alongside Siamese dog trials. A Chicago suburb farm hosts the transformed hen and related animal studies.
An upstate fox farm owner asked for mother cats to nurse silver fox cubs. H. M. Bacon of the New York Fur Auction Sales corp said the farmer would take all cats offered and a mother cat could earn $2.50 for six weeks. After six weeks the fox cubs can eat solid food.
The Missouri Oil discovery on land owned by Sarah Rector near Muskogee Oklahoma made her the wealthiest African American girl in the United States. At eighteen she is worth about a million and a half dollars due to oil on her land.
A brief saying doubts rewards of effort, suggesting unfair outcomes. The speaker contrasts rewards from toil with receiving lemons instead of desired fruit. It frames a critique of labor value and luck.
An old Bayer advertisement touts Bayer tablets of aspirin as genuine and safe for over twenty years. It urges customers to accept only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain and notes aspirin is a Bayer trademark manufactured from salicylic acid ester.
A view of Iceland highlights about a hundred geysers erupting with columns of hot water. The natural spectacle draws visitors and underscores geothermal activity on the-island nation.
The article extols South America claiming vast undeveloped resources including soil capable of all crops and untapped gold silver and coal mines. It also advertises Red Cross Ball Blue as a laundry bluing that leaves clothes spotless and notes it is sold by grocers for 5e.
To repair scratches mix equal parts salad oil and vinegar in a bottle. Shake, rub into wood with a soft rag until scratches vanish, then polish. Also ad promotes Cuticura Toilet Trio and prints a humorous quip about a man hurt by a fall and a flask.
The paper reports a playful exchange about forming a local league of nations in the suburb. The concept is described as an agreement between planners of a garden and chicken keepers, framed as a straw vote and lighthearted civic bonding.
The piece cites luxury taxes and a claimed 85000000 spent on indulgence since the armistice while noting improved labor conditions. A Cincinnati iron firm reports demand for 12 bathtubs now versus one a decade ago, seen as a sign of rising living standards and civilization’s forward march per World’s Work.
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