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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
7
Recipe for Gray Hair and a Fiery Box Incident
A brief note describes a curious method for gray hair preparation and recounts a tense moment where a man becomes furious after finding himself in a box, followed by a pun about a hot box.
Late Market Prices for Beef Cattle and Dressed Poultry
The market lists beef steers and heifers in various grades at 10.50 to 13.00 for prime and up to 9.75 for fair to good. Cow and feeder values appear from 5.00 to 10.00 with stockers and cutters noted. Dressed poultry prices run per pound with turkeys, ducks, geese, and eggs priced, followed by butter, eggs, and hay and grain values. Hides and pelts with Denver price list details conclude the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seid
Sowie
Gite
Genes Maven
Ics Y Caecuaels
The High Price of Husbands in a Player’s Tale
A wry exchange hints at a wife paying a fortune for a husband as a wealthy father grants a hundred thousand for him, illustrating social satire on marriage wealth and status.
Diamond Dyes Advertises Color Kit For Fabrics
A vintage advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes offering rich fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton and blends. It claims full instructions in the Direction Book and a color card to match fabrics. The copy ends with an aside noting many self-styled leaders are merely good followers.
Colorado settlement prices for metals
Bar silver priced at $1.33 per ounce copper at 19.20 cents per pound lead at $7.75 spelter at $8.00 tungsten at $6.50 12.00 per unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Eastern live stock and grain prices at Chicago markets
Hogs show top at 15.25 and bulk around 24.95 while cattle range from 6.60 to 20.00 for beef categories. Sheep and lambs quoted with varied values. Cash grain lists corn oats rye barley and seeds with nominal pork and lard pricing in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Market Prices and Fresh Produce Report
Chicago Produce and Butter-Creamery price notes show butter and creamery items at 52 to 69 cents assorted. Poultry prices list alive fowls at 26 to 30 cents and springs at 28 cents. Potatoes demand outpaces supply for Northern whites, with sacks priced around 4 dollars 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Arizona and New Mexico News Roundup Highlights
The report notes New Mexico and Arizona projects and figures. It cites Fred Twitchell on the Miami Superior road in Arizona as a major state highway effort. It forecasts Arizona population growth per the 1920 census and mentions court fines for the Santa Fe railway under the 28 hour law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Fred Twitchell
E. F. Templeton
Department of Commerce
Santa Fé Railway
Colin Neblett
United States District Court
Santa Fé
New Mexico
New Mexico Institute For the Blind
Alamogordo
Tucson
Ariz
Dedman
Union County
Rio Grande Valley
House
Washington
H. F. Robinson
Indian Irrigation Service
Isleta
Sandia
Santa Ana
San Felipe
State Highway Commission
Europe
United States
George Harvey
Phoenix
75Th Company
6Th Marines
Harvey
Marshal Petain
Vierzy
Memory Trick Turns Birthday into Dice Count
A Kansas City man sought a memory method by linking his wife’s birthday to dice prompts. He first used seven for the seventh, then miscalculated a year later thinking of eleven for December 11. His wife’s crying spell began on the seventh and lasted until the eleventh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Boschee's Syrup Ad Brings Relief for Colds and Coughs
A vintage advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup for coughs bronchitis colds throat irritation and lung troubles. It claims a restful night with gentle expectoration in the morning and notes widespread American manufacture and global use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Arithmetic lesson and a clever student
A mathematics teacher urges more time on math while a student Max suggests public men need arithmetic to keep accounts straight. A proverb about advice and a stray line about a black sheep once being a pet lamb closes the vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Max
The Misery of Backache in Muskegon
Mrs G Schoonfield of 240 Wood Ave Muskegon Michigan writes of six years of back pain. She reports taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and regaining strength to resume all work. She highly recommends the medicine to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Kans
Muskegon
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Woman Health Guarded by Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy
The article urges women to protect health and warns of seasonal neglect. It endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a successful remedy for female ailments and invites readers to write to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice answered by a woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Einkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Not Waiting for God to Punish a Naughty Boy
A mother tells Syril of a cruel dog owner and suggests letting God punish him. Syril asks why not arrest, but she declines and says they will wait for divine punishment. He then wonders why they should not apply the same standard to his own misdeeds.
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Syril
Mother
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