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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1920
Page
7
Advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as the fastest relief for cold and grippe symptoms. It claims dosing every two hours for three doses will unclog nostrils stop nasal discharge ease headache feverish dullness sneezing and sore stiffness with simple taste and no quinine.
A vintage ad promotes California Fig Syrup as a gentle laxative for children. It claims the syrup detoxifies the stomach liver and bowels and emphasizes the fruity taste and clear dosage directions on every bottle.
The magistrate states the prisoner is charged with using scurrilous language toward a man and then striking him with a dangerous missile. The prisoner denies the attack, claiming he called the man a lying pup and struck him with a brick.
Advertisement recounts Boschee's Syrup as a long standing treatment for coughs colds bronchitis and lung troubles. Claims include better sleep easy morning expectoration and global use with made in America origin. Also notes unrelated public body quip from London Punch and promotes Cuticura skin care for various conditions.
A Boston Tran script quotes Pastor Simms recalling a powerful sermon appeal. Brad der Jackson asks if he was moved, and the pastor says he had to hold himself back from adding more to the collection box. The remark hints at the impact of eloquence and restraint.
Lieutenant Commander Thomas Mott Osborne the Joliet incident in Illinois and a broad reform effort to place all 59 state prisons and five federal penitentiaries on a humane basis. A prominent ex convict known as the Gray Brother supports the campaign while 1600 former inmates in New York City assist.
Surgeons and medical men respond to John D Rockefeller’s gift of ten million dollars to the Institute for Medical Research in New York and to the return of Dr Alexis Carrel from France to resume his work. Carrel, born 1873 in Lyons, led wartime wound treatment that saved limbs and restored vigor.
At Madison Wisconsin ex soldiers who served in Archangel challenge Col Raymond Robins assertion that American troops mutinied in Russia. Robins cites affidavits but refuses to name signers, while Lieut Kleifoth in New York denies any mutiny occurred.
Cornell University president Jacob Gould Schurman offers his extensive philosophical library to Dr Nicholas Murray Butler for shipment to the University of Louvain in Belgium. Butler notes that German destruction of Louvain manuscripts mirrors historic library losses, including Alexandria, 643 A.D. and 1914. American scholars have offered aid for rebuilding Louvain's collection.
Southwest region news highlights funding for rural New Mexico schools and a Las Vegas Baptist college site. Reports note forest fires in Arizona and New Mexico, farm wages trends since 1910, and crop yields room for improvement. Arizona mineral output and the Douglas Fahrt Road link receive federal aid details and census data.
Louis Young of 1652 Clifford St Rochester New York reports chronic bowel and stomach trouble with hemorrhages. After using Peruna faithfully he improves and becomes a well man. The product is offered in liquid or tablet form.
A banquet in honor of a visiting celebrity stalled as the guest of honor arrived late. The narrator, desperate for water, signaled a waiter who turned out to be the dignitary in a dress suit. The awkward moment is recounted with humor and self awareness.
An old Bayer advertisement extols Bayer Tablets of Aspirin for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It asserts Bayer means genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and notes handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents.
A rural man enters a Syracuse menswear shop in January and selects a winter cap priced at one dollar. After a trial, the cap proves too small, but he vows to modify it at home with a knife and shoestring to make it fit, leaving the store with the purchase.
A dialogue contrasts domestic happiness with a remark about not trading places with General Pershing. The exchange probes whether ignorance or knowledge harms a person more, presenting a witty comparison between personal love and wartime leadership.
The Birmingham bishop warned that church attendance dwindles with time. A clubman at a Birmingham club observed Thompson and his wife heading to church and wondered if Thompson had heart trouble or Mrs. Thompson bought a new dress, reflecting social attitudes toward Sunday worship.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes promising rich fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton and blends. It claims the product can dye dresses blouses stockings skirts coats feathers draperies and more with directions in the package.
Everyone's Magazine recounts Tom's summer tale on his father's plantation. Rastus, an expert driver, kills a bee and a horsefly with his whip. Tom notes a hornet nest blocking the road and asks why Rastus does not strike it. Rastus answers with a sharp line about organization.
The text presents a string of quotations and witticisms about marriage worth and border politics, along with a joke about ducks and canvas backs. It reads as a collage of humorous lines rather than a cohesive report or event.
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