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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1920
Page
9
An advertisement promises discolored skin improvement using mercorized wax applied nightly to erase freckles tans and pimples. It claims no hair growth from wax and describes absorbent action leaving a clear complexion. Also touts saxolite in hazen solution for immediate face bathing results.
Edmonton Alberta Canada s comic Valentine railway once a 400 mile joke line is being transformed by Canadian Pacific which took over management for five years with option to purchase Alberta funds of 1 000 000 are spent to repair and equip the road. Peace River valley wheat yields and livestock potential promise strong business for the CPR as crews tackle washed out tracks and overgrown beds amid a revived regional outlook.
John Novak faced arraignment on non support charges in Chicago as the court learned of a phonograph sold by his wife to fund music and wine. The judge cited colonial examples and ordered Novak to return to his wife, noting a home without music is an improvement over a jail cell.
The text notes growing attention to tires as a factor in road safety. It implies heightened scrutiny of tire maintenance and performance, suggesting motorists and authorities are prioritizing tire quality and tire-related failures in recent discussions.
Natrona high school votes standard uniforms for boys and girls to ease family clothing bills. Girls wear plain white middy tops with navy skirts and a black tie, with limited braid. boys wear West Point gray uniforms. The order allows seasonal navy middies and black or red ties for the girls.
Hundreds of Polish Boy Scouts join the Junior Red Cross of Poland to aid American Red Cross relief in Warsaw. They serve as first aid assistants to doctors and nurses, help distribute food to famished refugees, and many act as interpreters, aiding aid trains and care efforts.
Edgar A Jackson of Caperting California unveils a nursery tree digger. The machine can dig 50 000 trees a day using about 10 gallons of fuel. A gas engine powers drums and cables to a cutter with a strong lifter, easing manual pulling. The device moves between rows under its own power.
Police in Philadelphia traced a panic call to a garage after a fright ened negro reported a shooting. The man fainted when a car tire blew while he was cleaning it, prompting the false alarm.
Denver’s rubbish court, led by A. Be. Medaris, fine Charles Kangari for failing to clean premises ordered by the court. The system alerts offenders after a first warning and brings repeat neglect to police court, aiming to keep alleys and back doors clean.
Lynn Massachusetts city officials report Superintendent of Sewers Thomas Heath pulled five kittens and a pig from the city catch basins. He praises residents for better pet care after the unusual rescue.
Residents report uneasy sensations as certain portraits appear to track a person through a room. Superstitious locals fear entering picture galleries where the eyes seem to follow guests, prompting talk of eerie phenomena and spectral influence.
A description explains how eyes seem to follow a viewer regardless of position. By turning the gaze frontward the pupil stays centered, creating the illusion that the eye is looking directly at the observer from any angle.
In Columbus Indiana poultry thieves employ chloroform to silence birds during thefts. East Columbus reports heavy losses from blooded flocks as Samuel Sharp, county superintendent of schools, found most of his pure-bred chickens missing and the survivors dazed from the drug.
Harrisburg reports a surge of requests when Pennsylvania reached license plate number 500000. Senator Boies Penrose, eyeing the stately new car valued at $10500, asked for the coveted digits, influencing the traffic department as the sequence jumped from the 490 thousands.
Universal Service reports London based on the Earl of Egmont diary written after 1730. It lists wife qualities in order: good nature, beauty, sense, breeding, birth, fortune. He notes no single woman may have all, and if family or fortune fail, the others must suffice for a happy marriage.
Universal Service reports that former world lightweight champ Charlie White and Pacific coast title hopeful Eddie Mahoney are set for a major bout in Tijuana. Tommy Walsh, representing Mahoney, toured Chicago offering terms likely to lure the Chicago Hebrew club into a match.
An estimate places annual lumber consumption at about 85 000 050 000 board feet for matches and toothpicks, with the majority used for matches. White pine accounts for 86 percent, basswood seven percent. the toothpicks come mainly from beech, birch and maple.
Telephonic communication between America and Europe could soon be possible as American Telephone and Telegraph and General Electric announce a contract after successful experiments. The system would let ships at sea be reached by desk phones and allow multiple conversations on one wire with no interference.
Nine years after a farmhouse and barns burned Isaac Shipless of Milton Delaware faced successive disasters. Six years a fire destroyed his poultry plant with £500 in losses. Three years hog cholera killed 209 large pigs. This year an anthrax outbreak among twenty cows ended his livelihood and he fears what comes next.
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