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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
3
Recipe for Gray Hair and a Boxed Fury
A terse fragment contrasts a recipe for gray hair with a grim line about a man enraged by finding himself confined in a box. The odd juxtaposition hints at a wry, possibly dark humor context.
Late Market Prices For Livestock And Poultry
The issue lists varied livestock prices including beef steers and heifers, fat cows, stockers, feeders, and sows with ranges. It also covers lambs, sheep, dressed poultry, eggs, butter, dairy products, and grain bids, with regional notes and Denver price references.
The High Price of Husbands
A dialog notes the high cost of husbands with a line that a father paid a hundred thousand for his daughter's spouse, illustrating social pressures around marriage.
Diamond Dyes Advertises Color Safe For All Fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as guaranteeing a rich fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton and blends. It claims the dye works on dresses blouses stockings skirts children's coats feathers draperies and coverings and notes the instruction book with each package. It also advises checking the Diamond Dye Color Card at the store and includes a remark about leaders and followers.
Colorado settlement metal prices steady
Bar silver priced at 1.33 dollars, copper at 19 20 cents per pound, lead at 7.75 dollars, spelter at 8.00 dollars, tungsten quoted 6.50 to 12.00 per unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Eastern live stock and grain prices reported from Chicago
The Chicago market report lists hogs with top at 15.25 and heavy at 14.95, cattle with beef steers ranging 11.00 to 20.00, sheep lambs 12.50 to 18.90, and cash grain quotes including corn at 1.56 to 1.58, oats 0.87 to 0.88, rye 1.85, barley 1.45 to 1.59, Timothy and clover seed at 9.00 to 13.00 and 40.00 to 48.00, pork nominal and lard at 23.92.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seid
Sowie
Gite
Genes Maven
Ics Y Caecuaels
Chicago
Chicago Produce and Poultry Market Listings Update
Chicago Produce notes Butter-Creamery prices around 63 cents, ordinary firsts at 66 cents, crude listings show various per unit costs. Poultry section reports alive springs at 28 cents and fowls at 26 to 30 cents. Potatoes demand outstrips supply in Northern whites with sacks priced around 4 dollars 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Memory Trick Backfires in Birthday Plot
A Kansas City man devised a memory system linking his wife’s birthday to dice and a sequence of seven. He later failed to recall the date, confusing it with lice and craps, leading to a cry spell that began on the seventh and ended on the eleventh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Boschee's Syrup Promises Restful Nights From Colds
A vintage advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup for coughs bronchitis and lung troubles. It claims influenza deaths far exceed those of the war and promotes American made syrup used in thousands of homes worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Arithmetic and public men in need of maths
A teacher urges more time on mathematics to help students see its value for success and accuracy. Max suggests public figures should master arithmetic to keep accounts straight. The saying about advice and a black sheep as a pet lamb closes the brief note.
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Wilson
Southern Pacific Railroad
Steins
N. Mex
Little Max
The Misery of Backache in Muskegon Woman’s Recovery
Mrs G Schoonfield of 240 Wood Ave Muskegon Michigan recounts six years of back weakness and says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made her strong again enabling her to work. She recommends the medicine to others and shares her experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Kans
Muskegon
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Woman Health Care and Lydia E Pinkham Plant Remedy
A promotional note urges women to protect their health and cites Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It offers confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts, with letters read and answered by a woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Einkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
God Punishes The Naughty Boy In Kindness
A mother and her son Syril discuss a cruel man who mistreated a dog. Syril urges arrest and punishment, but the mother suggests waiting for God to punish. Syril contemplates the idea and asks why God should punish him for his own naughtiness.
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Syril
Mother
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