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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1916
Page
6
A health advice item promotes drinking a glass of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It claims flavor vitality and appetite improvement, saying a quarter pound of limestone phosphate is cheap at a drugstore and benefits biliousness constipation stomach trouble and rheumatism.
Senator W. R. Oglesby recalls a tale of Jimmy and his beloved at a restaurant. She enjoys chicken while he quietly notes the bill, saying he has had all he wants from the pocketbook as the waiter presents the check.
Mrs. Peck chides heroism for country while Henry Peck claims a daring deed for the woman he loves. He confesses he asked her to marry him, delivering a playful punchline in this domestic vignette.
Mrs Growell defends her new gown noting others praise it while she points out she must pay the bills. The exchange highlights financial pressures behind appearances and social expectations.
A husband volunteers to cook and serves Grape-Nuts for breakfast proving its ease and health benefits. The letter cites improved health after using Grape-Nuts and Postum, noting a friend with indigestion also improved with a small dish of Grape-Nuts and cream. The ad ends with the line There’s a Reason and the Postum Co. attribution.
Western front reports show Austrian offenses in Galicia failing and German counterattacks repulsed along the Verdun area. British forces take Felahie in Mesopotamia to aid Kut al Amara, while Greek unrest and Venizelos protests roil Athens. Submarine activity sinks several neutral ships and a Paris bombardment of Rheims continues with heavy shelling. A British steamer Chantilla is sunk and Sussex submarine claims questioned.
A police officer shot dead in St. Louis and a kidnap victim or slain person amid four auto bandits. Watertown votes overthrow of city commission form by 273. Chicago reports 258 auto deaths and 3,289 injuries last year. Eastland disaster blamed on lax steamboat laws. Capt John C. Greenway to head Arizona Progressive delegation to Chicago in June. Bandits murder 50 people in an attack near Torreón Zacatecas and a Villista clash near Parr ás, with 42 bandits killed and garrison forces seizing arms and horses.
Appropriations of 60000 for wireless stations at Fort Huachuca Arizona Fort McIntosh and Fort Bliss Texas were asked of Congress by the War Department. Persistent reports of immediate recall of American forces in Mexico are denied by Secretaries Lansing and Baker. Ocean freight rates on some commodities especially wheat are up 900 percent from the war’s start. Gen Jesus Ontiveras a Villista agitator was arrested in El Paso and jailed. The FTC upholds the right of film distributors to refuse sales to more than one theater in a city.
The report notes international unrest including child performers burned at Hereford, and government actions: Germany expropriates coffee and chicory, Britain gains 300 captives in East Africa, and political shifts in China and Norway. A Paris conference on economic questions is planned for April 20 with cabinet-level delegates.
In Colorado Springs Fred Eames of Denver defeated S. E. Luke of Chicago two games to one in a two out of three match. Charlie White won by decision over Matt Wells in a fifteen round Chicago bout held in Kansas City.
The Democrats made material gains in the Chicago city election. The Progressive party of Virginia endorsed Theodore Roosevelt for president. Five men were stabbed and fourteen injured by alleged strikers in a Brooklyn shirtwaist factory raid. A Villa remnant was scattered in a Guerrero skirmish with Carranzistas on March 29. Lingerie of Elizabeth Gordon Pelton was seized in New York worth 1000 dollars. Nearly 400000 railroad workers presented demands to general managers at headquarters nationwide. Ford’s Michigan primary victory over Smith seen as peace vote. Hamilton Club Appomattox Day speakers included Harding Sherman and Burkett. In Cleneguillar, ten bandits killed and two captured in Americ an-Villista clash.
Canada enjoys strong prosperity in 1915 with record grain output and rising farm income. Western taxes average 24 dollars per quarter section with no tax on improvements. Soldiers granted spring leave to seed and harvest crops, signaling no tax or conscription increases to hinder agriculture. Some labor from Canada to the United States is being sought, with a goal of fifty thousand workers.
A jokey tale from Congressman Swager Sherley of Kentucky recalls a husband who kept house and cooked his own meals. On the visit I returned home to a parrot that had learned to swear, prompting a comic sigh from Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown in a downtown chat.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a physician prescribed cure for kidney liver and bladder issues. It claims the remedy neutralizes uric acid, relieves gout and rheumatic pain, and offers a sample for ten cents by mail to Kilmer Co. Binghamton New York.
Mrs Jaggs remarks she has waited for John to return from the club and is awake hours. John retorts that his wife is like a woman, noting he has been at the club and now must sleep. The exchange portrays domestic friction and late night fatigue.
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for tender infant skin with a free sample offer by mail. It also notes a woman's mind on dress as a commentary, reflecting period consumer culture.
A fleeting ad style line praising Red Cross Bag Blue as superior to liquid blue with encouragement to seek the product from all grocers. The fragment conveys promotional tone and mentions laundress and general availability.
A brief exchange shows She remarking the man looks older than his years and He denying it, insisting he is not. The fragment captures a playful misperception of age between two speakers, Mr Jones and an unnamed female.
News from the front reports Villa with about 200 followers moving toward Durango as American forces linger near the Durango line. Carranza generals Bertani and Gavira say Villa may be wounded and that de facto troops could seize control if U S troops withdraw. Washington officials declined to comment on a border deadline.
London reports unabated bombardment west of the Meuse with French lines unbroken between Le Mort Homme and Cumieres. Berlin notes heavy French losses as Bavarian and Silesian troops occupy Termiten hill after German advance near Harcourt. Fifteen officers and 699 men captured. British troops at St Eloi reclaim a German trench and mine crater.
Washington reports that investigations into recent attacks on unarmed American carrying merchant vessels have found strong evidence of illegal submarine operations. The US government says the Sussex incident cannot be resolved by Germany's note denying torpedoing the English channel steamer.
Taunton Massachusetts girl recalls severe monthly pains and absence from work until her mother bought Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports immediate improvement and later urges others to seek safe herbal help from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for irregular periods and associated symptoms.
A child pleads for a puppy while a mother insists the kitten from Aunt Mary is enough. The daughter laments Kitty’s bath fiasco as she recounts the kitten’s scratchy reaction.
A dialogue reveals a poor father and his children discussing buying a piano on an insolvent plan. The first child recalls obtaining a piano for the house, and the second confirms their own piano purchase, highlighting financial hardship and aspiration.
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