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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
6
Fragmentary scare advert style text urges avoiding excess meat and fluids. Mentions uric acid and a tonic sold through a chemist at a hotel, with instruction to send for a bottle and price. Contains garbled words and dubious health claims typical of old advertisements.
A letter from Berlin New Hampshire recalls ten years of stomach pains and chalky teeth until a home remedy called BATONIO brought relief. The writer reports lasting improvement after one dose and plans to continue, crediting the cure. Also a European Army Interacy exam lists literacy percentages across nations and notes US army literacy at 7.6 percent.
An old advertisement extols Cascarets as a safe laxative for constipation and indigestion, promising relief from gas and headaches without griping. It claims the product works overnight to cleanse the bowels and strengthens intestinal muscles, contrasting with harsh calomel and salts.
Miss Anne Martin, an independent candidate in 1918, announces she will seek the Republican senatorial nomination to replace Senator Charles B. Henderson, with stance against the League of Nations, support for a league of peace, worker rights, and protective measures for labor and women in industry and public life. She may run as an independent if opposed by a bipartisan fusion candidate.
Three of Richard Croker’s children filed affidavits in a Florida court claiming their eighty year old father is senile and under the domination of his second wife whom they accuse of wast ing the Croker estate said to total 9 100,000,000. The Croker marriage to Beulah Benton Emundson in 1914 followed his earlier Tammany Hall leadership and her Cherokee heritage is noted with her activism and education as background.
Congressman William B. McKinley tells the House that railroads must earn enough to support vast borrowing for rehabilitation. He warns that cutting railroad earnings could force bankruptcies and government takeover, noting a web of life insurance policies and bank ownership backing railroad debt. He cites 40 million life policies and that railroad bonds are largely held by savings banks and insurers. He warns of a looming need of about 6,000,000,000 to rehabilitate 250,000 miles of railroads over five years.
Mrs. Yone Suzuki of Kobe, a widow who built a global export and import empire, controls cereals camphor iron coal automobiles farming implements and leads in lead and copper mining flour production and shipping. Her two sons joined the business as she expanded during the Russo-Japanese era and World War I. Her company now operates a fleet in the International Steamship line.
A World War II era account describes an attempted destruction of a munition plant. A suspect used a glove at entry, fingerprints failed, but deep footprints and shoe analysis led to arrest within 48 hours. Experts note footprints can identify shoe type and wearer traits aiding criminal hunts.
A sketch in Along Broad Way highlights Fanny Crosby, who lost sight at six and married blind musician Alexander Van Alstyne. Crosby, author of over 6000 hymns, taught at the New York Institute for the Blind and saw her work in Moody and Sankey hymnals. Her earnest hymns remain popular, with verses like Jesus Is Calling and Come, Great Deliverer sung by noted artists and recorded for phonographs.
In Lithuania beekeeping shaped society and economy. Bees are prized, honey barrels exported, many households keep hives, and even city dwellers brew a honey-based drink called Midus. A punchline about a pugilist in a Birmingham Age-Herald quote follows, noting the boxer’s drunken boast and manager’s defense.
The response describes that when the speak easy caught fire, they sent in a still alarm to summon help and alert the authorities. The account focuses on immediate firefighting measures and the urgent signal used to mobilize responders.
A witty snippet on a film buff wearing a celluloid collar at a polite social event. The piece hints that businessmen often feel uncomfortable in refined gatherings, contrasting cinematic enthusiasm with social formality.
Returning soldiers recall a four mule team driver in France who lost his way through mist and rammed an abandoned trench. A doughboy signaled in a whisper to avoid German fire as the driver, misunderstanding the warning, insisted on turning the four mules around while shouting loudly.
The piece quotes a dialogue from the Leowig ville Courier Journal about a performer who loves Reno and wants to settle there, with her mother calling for train times. The text includes a line about an engagement and luck in love.
A fragmentary line reads His Condition, ae ae as a sphere. The writer suggests a philosophical view, claiming I auggese beenese iis the whirled, mixing archaic cadence with a speculative note on existence.
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