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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
6
The piece lauds American women’s wartime service and urges use of Favorite Prescription to ease painful menstrual and nervous symptoms. It promotes tablet and liquid forms and offers a ten cent trial package from Doctor Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo, NY. It also touts Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowel troubles.
A health claim describes quick relief for stomach upset after meals with symptoms like sour stomach gas and indigestion. It presents a product or remedy as an immediate solution. The text implies relief without detailing ingredients or evidence.
Reports from the war era note heavy casualties Austria Hungary 4 000 000 killed and wounded German forces retreating from Russian territory Gen von der Marwitz Fifth army crossing the Rhine in eight to nine days Submarines 122 captured to date and 200 believed destroyed Allied air force casualties total 2 680 killed 4 909 missing or prisoners Preliminary Wilson Lloyd George Clemenceau Orland conference set for December 16 German Kaiser Hohenzollern accused of plundering the nation Austria Hungary says prisoners released without food and clothes Three million German troops horses and baggage withdrawing toward the Rhine Serbians in Vlassotinetzi villagers killed by Bulgarians western Serbia magistrates priests teachers executed to erase Serb presence News notes also report 1 500 000 plus prisoners released by Germans and British Indian army casualties 101 439 with 3 051 killed or missing and 59 296 wounded
Reports from Riga declare Lithuania proclaimed as a republic. Abdication by Emperor Williams signed at Amerongen. Empress travels to Maarsbergen. Bolsheviks reportedly seize Pskov and Dvinsk. Luxemburg switches to French time. Influenza epidemic hits Amoy with high illness rate and few deaths. Peking marks victory parade with President. Repatriation of US POWs through Switzerland. Discussions of German republic’s future leadership. Dresden revolution votes show Socialist majority. Bethmann-Hollweg pressed for war origin probe. British press claim Germany must suffer as a whole. Bavarian revelations stir German guilt discourse.
The document notes that under the nineteenth armistice clause Germany must return or forfeit Russian and Rumanian gold. Illinois reports 22566 deaths from Spanish influenza. Denver opens a permanent office for disabled veterans' training and placement across Colorado Wyoming Utah and northern New Mexico. Thomas J Mooney, commuted to life for the Preparedness Day bombing, is moved from death row to a prison foundry to work as an iron moulder.
President Wilson approves a commission to investigate industrial conditions in Porto Rico and the four minute men of the committee on public information will end their work and be disbanded on December 24. Bernard Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board, has sent in his resignation to take effect January 1. The War Department released details of American army corps in France as of November 7, before the armistice. An American returning from a trip to Frankfort, Germany reports orderly German troop withdrawals at all points.
Lieut. Charles Miller of the U S army aviation corps landed in Schenley park Pittsburgh after flying 91 miles from Dennison Ohio in fifty minutes. Horse breeders push toward consolidating the National and American Trotting Associations at a Waldorf Astoria meeting. Richard E Remner of the New York Athletic Club set two American walking records in the United War Work eight mile handicap in New York. He ran eight miles in 1 1 34 and then set the one hour record by covering seven miles 1 437 feet.
Government push to continue war sayings and thrift stamps to cover war costs. McAdoo says purchases support army in Europe and bring troops home.
Arizona reports include bond issues for Phoenix drainage 100000 and Cochise Road projects totaling 1 million dollars. Jerome hospital repurposed as hotel, a soldier James Higles killed in France, Thanksgiving highway opening Bisbee to Tombstone, and Governor-elect Thomas E Campbell native son of Prescott.
President Wilson announced plans to travel to Paris for the peace conference and said allied governments accept his principles for peace. He outlined cable control, railroading challenges, and the need for constitutional woman suffrage by federal amendment. He urged careful study of railroad readjustment and supported a six billion dollar 1919 tax and a four billion dollar 1920 levy.
Colorado’s farm production reached new heights last year with 57 365 railroad cars carrying 2 235 812 955 pounds of vegetables grains and fruit. Wheat and flour led totals as sugar and canning shipments also climbed, signaling strong yields for the coming year.
Mrs. O. S. Johnson of Ellensburg Washington credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after marriage and enabling childbirth. The advertisement urges other women with functional disorders to try the medicine and seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts citing 40 years of experience.
A French soldier mocks English while reading a Dutch English mock newspaper joke about quickness and being tied up. The ad promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for liver bowels and stomach cleansing.
The Peruvians used print methods resembling modern practice, engraving patterns on copper rollers and applying multiple colors. Dyes were fixed with mordants to resist millennia of wear, matching later techniques in both technique and artistry.
A wartime diary excerpt describes a ten minute encounter where the speaker and a German sapper faced each other crawling on their stomachs. The sapper spoke in German and the speaker replied in rough language, noting personal disdain and a tense exchange without violent action.
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