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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
2
An old advice ad promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children. It urges mothers to look for the California name on the package and claims the product has a tasty fruity flavor. Full dosing directions appear on each bottle.
Advertisement copy touts Bayer Aspirin tablets for colds pain head ache and rheumatism with claim of nineteen years use and price of a tin box of 12. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine claiming to cure catarrhal deafness via blood purification and offers one hundred dollars for any uncurable case. Circulars and drug company names noted.
Washington November 28 The government 14 per cent wage rise offer is rejected by coal miners. Operators accept as basis for settlement but protest profits loss if prices stay unchanged. Joint conference adjourns without resumption, miners vowing to return only under fair terms and with price controls maintained.
The War Secretary’s annual report reviews U S participation in World War I and outlines postwar policy plans including a new army and educational aims. It discusses an independent air service, notes no current commercial use, and praises General Pershing and Dawes for decisive wartime purchasing and tonnage relief, ending with high regard for General March’s program leadership.
The General Education Board awards Vanderbilt University 4 million dollars to reorganize the Nashville medical school. Plans include completing Galloway Memorial Hospital, enlarging public facilities, adding a new hospital unit, building a modern lab, and hiring more professors.
Moscow reports intense fighting on the Volga front with Bolsheviks taking Dubovka 180 miles SSW of Saratov and taking 800 prisoners. They claim to have annihilated three regiments of Denikin’s anti Bolshevik forces and continuing rapid advances in the Omsk region.
London reports John Lawson Labourite elected to the Commons in Ches ter-Le-Street Durham with 17 838 votes to 5 343 for David Gilmour National Democratic opponent. In Stockton California war department confirms James Tulan died in France with repeated denials of prior reports.
Rome reports an official decree retires 200 generals and 1,600 superior officers from colonels to majors, plus about 20,000 subalterns. This marks the first step in a broad reduction of forces.
A Canadian soldier in England notes the country’s pessimistic placenames such as Bad End and Starveacre. He recalls a string of odd, gloomy names along the Sussex Kent border and reflects on how place names mirror mood, not fate. The piece ends with a light quip about marriage and money between Philip and his wife.
The piece notes Napoleon originated the red trousers to boost madder cultivation, but the Graebe Liebermann alizarin discovery shifted dye sources. Between 1870 and 1878 madder root output in France dropped from 25 000 to 500 tons, yet red-dyed trousers remained using imported German dyes, seen as a German victory and a warning about economic shifts.
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