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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1919
Page
15
A home remedy endorsement from Atchison Kansas promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a natural tonic to restore stomach liver and nerve strength. A mother reports clearing her four year old son's circular facial eruption after using the medicine, noting one bottle sufficed.
In a snippet from a bustling era, Mr. Crosslets hopes airship tech will soon carry general passengers. He envisions time savings but doubts seats will be replaced by straps. The dialogue contrasts practical comfort with futuristic transit ambitions.
Mrs Murphy asks for mirrors that reflect her face, shopwalker offers options. London Answers notes the request and clarifies the kind of mirror desired.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy for acute nasal catarrh and frequent colds. It claims the tonic builds the system and cleanses the blood to reduce susceptibility, with testimonials and a money back guarantee if not cured, from J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
A brief exchange highlights astonishment at a report claiming Germans are hiss ing soldiers. Miss Cayenne dismisses the claim and notes the goose-step influence.
The first large lot of American developed poison gas shells and containers were disposed of by dumping 200,000 mustard and chlorpicrin shells plus drums in the sea off Maryland. Gas shipments to France and England totaled 3,662 tons for shell loading and safety disposals, with 25,000 to 75 mm shells sent to France by August 1918, and delays in assembly blamed for front delivery only after the armistice.
Belgrade, capital of the new Serbs Croats and Slovenes kingdom, is in shock from ruined infrastructure and disease. Tuberculosis death rate near 250 per 100000, few men and children remain, water scarce, fuel scarce, and railways damaged cutting the city from interior Serbia. Only food shops and some officials’ autos appear. Danube freezes threaten external links.
Earl Cadgue of Topeka Indian admitted telling a crowd he could “lick anybody on Main street.” The judge called the remark ill advised and assessed a $25 penalty.
New York author Maximilian Toch describes private gardens along the Atlantic coast hosting large mortars on concrete emplacements with half ton projectiles to deter German ships and planes. He notes camouflage use of honeysuckle ivy and morning glory to conceal fortifications.
An authoritative estimate puts the Channel tunnel at five years to complete with costs near 100 million dollars due to higher labor and material prices. The Daily Mail reports British French agreement and plans to begin inside both nations with rail lines and telecommunication tubes, financed by railways but controlled jointly by governments.
A jury must decide if a pint of war beer rendered the driver intoxicated as a Springfield injury suit moves forward. The plaintiff, a woman harmed in a collision, alleges intoxication contributed to the accident.
An old advertisement urges parents to ask for genuine California Syrup of Figs from their druggist. It emphasizes that full directions and dosing for babies and children of all ages are printed on the bottle and warns to look for the California name and accept no other Fig Syrup.
The London Mail notes a large undeployed stock of cash in England. rural fishermen in Yorkshire hold five thousand dollars in notes and a cottage worth little pay taxes. one woman in a Yorkshire town kept two thousand half sovereigns in a handbag for thirty years and carried it about daily.
A dialogue excerpt recalls Miss Bigger as a poor conversationalist with only a solitary reply. The joke contrasts social failures and a quip on the value of ideas versus the effort to obtain them.
A newlywed couple argues over happiness as the wife insists on proof of love. She powders her nose on a crowded pavement while the husband feigns indifference, turning toward show windows of a piano shop to hide the moment from onlookers.
Colonel Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, reflected on how World War I reshaped his view of religion. He contrasted older philosophy with a doughboy’s definition that religion is betting your life on the existence of God.
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