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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1920
Page
7
Two women recount recovering from severe bronchitis and dropsy after using Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. Mrs. Sarah Coleman of Omaha credits rapid improvement and lasting health benefits to the remedies. Mrs. Jennie Richardson also says the tonics rebuilt her strength and restored health.
A Yale Record fragment features a professor asking a student to remove his hat while outlining a concrete example. The passage also includes an advertisement for Cuticura Soap promising efficiency and skin health for shaving bathing and shampooing. A moral note about Let’s wife contrasts with grumbling hindering work.
Sir George Watson donates £20000 to establish and endow a chair of lectureship in American history literature and institutions. The chair will serve multiple British universities and alternate between American and British scholars, promoting wider knowledge of America in the UK.
Virgin Islanders demand local civil government as Congress weighs a joint commission to study conditions in the islands. The 1917 organic act remains, with Navy control, while residents seek hearings and a path to organic self rule. The commission would report on potential civil governance and necessary legislation.
Smithsonian Institution reports Professor Robert H. Goddard of Clark College has developed a high efficiency multiple charge rocket. The device, weighing 1,274 pounds, promises to reach beyond the earth’s atmosphere and could carry meteorological instruments to extreme altitudes, with efficiency rising from 2 to about 64 percent.
The piece argues US protectorates in Haiti Santo Domingo and Nicaragua show how Washington shapes governments by force or consent. It highlights Sergt William A Miller known as the vice president of Haiti for four years as personal bodyguard to President Anteguenive and a power behind the throne.
A press agent for a European philanthropy group says Prince Doaletski may join an American industrialist family through marriage next year. He notes European royal options are scarce and cash and status matter for a match, framing it as a practical alliance.
In a witty exchange Mr Multirox asks if love lasts for itself alone and Miss Manchester affirms. She adds that shared wealth could fund greater leisure to pursue the romance.
A poet claims love begins in the heart, not the brain, arguing emotion drives connections and romantic feelings originate from chest beats and heart-centered perception rather than neurological processes.
The will of Lieut. Frank R. Kirkley, wounded in action and died at the Twenty-fourth casualty station in Italy, was admitted to probate in England. Written on the back of a small photograph and signed Muriel, it leaves all to her. Muriel is Annie Muriel Kyrke Smith of Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. The estate is about 1500 dollars.
The Springfield Republican notes the old tale that Osler advocated “chloroforming men at sixty” while clarifying his reference to Trollope’s The Fixed Period. The piece explains the misquote and its context of a college where men retire at sixty for contemplation before death by chloroform.
If opportunity were at sea, many would hesitate on shore fearing submarines. Some husbands are harsh enough to keep half a dozen mothers in law busy, a wry observation on risk and domestic ties.
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