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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
3
The Kansas City Star reports Tomlinville Arkansas residents discuss a proposed water works bond issue. Young people and newcomers favor the measure while longtime residents oppose funding a system they doubtlessly would use, predicting a tense election.
An advertisement warns that genuine Aspirin bears the Bayer name on packaging or tablets for safety. It notes approved uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache and lumbago. Tin boxes of twelve cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists.
A speaker asks if the boy is an adolescent and receives assurance that the boy is as healthy as any other boy. The exchange emphasizes perceived vitality rather than age.
The New York Sun reports Johnnie Edwards, famed lifelong smoker at a club, avoided lighting a cigarette this week as he reveals a promise to quit after a chat with a doctor. Jimmie Van Veek overhears him saying he must stay off tobacco to honor a prior pact.
The advertisement touts Cuticura Taleum Powder as an antiseptic and scented all purpose powder for face skin baby and dusting use. It claims superior fragrance and economy and positions it as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio alongside Soap and Ointment.
A Franklin mother teaches her three year old to avoid saying a naughty word. The boy Robert corrects her and suggests saying excuse me instead. The snippet appears in the Indianapolis News. An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue to prevent rust spots in laundry. A humorous note ponders why the average man prefers malice to blunder.
Madrid reports describe Morocco's Spanish zone along the Mediterranean where Spanish troops faced Moorish resistance. It recalls the 1905 Perdicaris case and the Raisuli affair, noting recent reverses as General Silvestre presses inland from Melilla against about 20 000 native forces.
A Methodist mission board in New York reports a python entered a hen house at night and ate eight chickens and nine eggs. Natives and missionaries killed the snake and opened it. the eggs remained intact and hatched into healthy chicks. Reverend Edwin H Richards, a longtime Africa missionary, chronicles the incident.
The St. Louis Historical Society proposes a monument to mark the city’s founding on February 15, 1764. The plan centers on Rene-Auguste Chouteau as central figure, with Laclede nearby, reviving the long-standing question of the true founder. Records question Chouteau’s birth date and raise doubt about his role.
In Verdun France a young priest at a wooden hut near Fort Douaumont preserves memory of 800000 unidentified Verdun dead. Coffin boxes bear sector names as bones from the battle are prepared for a planned ossuary with holy shelters for Catholic Protestant Jewish and Mussulman rites.
Cape May New Jersey youth Emory Eyesman thirteen year old son of Julian Eyesman general traffic manager for the Pennsylvania railroad ended a day’s fishing trip with two eight foot sharks to his credit. He fought with them for more than two hours playing them along and insisting other fishermen give him room. The sharks weighed a total of 940 pounds.
The article describes poroscopy measuring body pores and graphometry analyzing handwriting forms as new crime detection methods. Dr Edmund Locard, head of Lyons police lab, claims successes in court with impressions from pores and distinctive handwriting patterns aiding prosecutions and forgery detection.
St. Louis officials seek a Carnegie hero medal for Robert J. Taylor a St Louis Pullman porter praised for saving 26 lives when a passenger train overturned during the Pueblo flood on June 2.
A collection of wry maxims on love, risk, and domestic life. The witticisms poke at husbands, wives, mothers, and social norms, noting paradoxes in romance and the costs of certainty. The tone aims for light satire with bite.
An advertisement mix notes Dr Kerry e Freckle Oiniment offering a free book from Dr C H Berry Co Chicago address 2975 Michigan Ave. It also cites US Bureau of Mines data claiming 5 million tons of asphalt used on American highways in eight years enough for 50 000 miles and a globe circling 16 foot wide road.
A Western dialogue notes oil in Crimson Gulch, with Cactus Joe stating the issue was mismanaged by selling stock rather than extracting steadily. The piece ends with a caution that stage-struck girls should think twice before acting and a reminder to shape one’s environment or be ruined by it.
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