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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
6
An ad touts Freezone as a painless cure for hard soft and toe corn. It claims instant relief with a few cents, a tiny druggist bottle, and no pain or irritation. The copy mentions a Cincinnati genius and includes quirky verse about trial and patent questions.
Psychic messages from a spirit never on earth are recorded in a book by Mrs Franklin K Lane and Mrs Harriet Binise Beale. The work recites automatic writing from 1919 during war relief activity and at Walter Reed hospital convalescent home. Twenty four lessons urge world regeneration through love and service and turning to God. The authors state they added no personal text and present their testimony as a chain in the world’s spiritual awakening.
Captain Amundsen returns from nineteen months in the Arctic arriving at Anadyr in eastern Siberia while Washington scientists speculate on his possible attainment of the North Pole with airplane aid. The explorer, fluent in aviation, had planned to drift toward the pole and finish by air, leaving Dixon Island in 1918 with seven years of supplies and hopes of reaching the pole within three years.
William LeRoy Emmet, a naval electrical engineer and US Naval Academy graduate, helped design the Maryland’s electrical systems. The vessel, launched at Newport News, is touted as a premier fighting machine with much of its operations powered by electricity, including dishwashing. The Maryland is the first of four ships in its class to be launched.
Mayor M A Brown of Medicine Hat leads the Canadian Industrial Congress to visit Medicine Hat Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton Vancouver and Victoria in Alberta and British Columbia. The aim is to showcase western Canada’s minerals farm land and raw materials to U S and Britain and foster closer business ties with the United States. Brown notes 2,000,000 young Canadians have aided U S development and urges U S support to cultivate western resources and 20,000,000 acres of vacant western lands.
An English fraud case centers on a man who resembles Herbert Leslie Perkins of Wolverhampton and steals his identity to commit thefts across multiple towns. Perkins has faced repeated arrests and acquittals since 1919, spending his savings and selling belongings to support a large family while the double continues frauds from Gloucester to Leicester.
Future Rapid Travel writer Lindsay Bashford in the Hamburgh Review outlines a London to Calcutta overland rail vision via Konia Aleppo Jerablus Mosul Baghdad Basra and a potential extension to Tehran Quetta and India. He suggests a journey time under a fortnight under new British Persian political arrangements.
A village child seeks vengeance after punishment from a belle. The scene features a young man curious about Gwendoline’s hair and a cryptic exchange about ears. The piece blends a comic domestic incident with an unrelated note on eclipse observation by airplane.
An old advertisement style piece extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claiming it cures kidney bladder and rheumatic ailments. It urges readers to request a sample bottle and notes bottles are sold in drug stores. It uses testimonials and promotional language to boost sales.
Catarrhal Deafness cannot be cured by focal applications only the constitutional remedy helps. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts through the blood to the mucous surfaces. When the Eustachian tube inflames rumbling or imperfect hearing occurs and deafness may follow if the inflammation cannot be reduced. Circulars claim one hundred dollars for cures that fail. FT Chaney & Co Toledo Ohio.
The advertisement promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. It emphasizes the Bayer name as the world famous source and notes proper directions on each package for colds, headaches, toothaches, neuralgia, and rheumatism. It mentions a smaller tin containing twelve tablets at a low price and references larger packages and the trademark Bayer Manufacture Monosectic acid ester of salicylic acid.
A fragment shows dialogue on Dobbs love and money, Mrs Banks question about her daughter a nursing student, and laundry tips with Red Cross Hall Blue advertised. The tone suggests a social note with witty aside on marriage roles and farewell sentiment.
Barry proclaims inadequacy while Carrie concedes she settled for him. The exchange reveals a young couple grappling with fidelity and self worth as they navigate trust and desire in a strained romance.
An 1900s style ad touts S. S. S. as the most thorough blood purifier for rheumatism. It claims the remedy cleanses blood of impurities and germs, promising relief only after blood is freed. Address for literature and advice given as Chief Medical Adviser, 107 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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