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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
15
A survey of sport fashion notes bold stripes and checks, matching hats and coats, and the rise of informal sport dresses. Describes a white shanting skirt with green panels, sleeveless jacket, large buttons, and new scarfs and tricots linking to coordinated outfits.
The article screens fabrics for late summer and early fall children’s frocks. Silk rivals wool in economy with taffetas leading, featuring five box plaits, silk suspenders, pearl buttons, and black silk knot finishing. Substitutes include heavy cotton crepe and white organdie accents.
Jan Capes dominate styles with deep yokes and fabric pleats. Yoke collars follow the yoke line exactly while other capes suit afternoon wear in satin or heavy silks with contrasting front vests.
In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, women like Clara and Beatrice Forward and R. M. Hillman run farms, expand stock, and manage finances while husbands go to war. The piece highlights a growing role for wives in grain farming, herd expansion, and household economies, proving a versatile, enduring asset in Canadian prairie agriculture.
The English thrush uses a convenient stone to crack snail shells by beating them. Some sea birds lift shellfish high and drop them onto rocks to break shells, a method observed as a tool use behavior.
An old advertisement touts lemon juice mixed with Orchard White to create a small bottle of freckle sunburn tan lotion. It claims quick fading of freckles and windburn and brightens skin, with the mix offered at low cost from grocers and drug stores.
The English vocabulary expanded from around 30,000 words in old texts to over 400,000 in modern dictionaries. This growth reflects broad linguistic adoption, borrowed terms, and evolving usage.
Red rough itching skin in babies eased with hot baths using Cuticura Soap and applications of Cuticura Ointment. Promotes sleep for infant and rest for mother. Free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept X Boston. Soap 25 Ointment 25 and 50 Adv.
A traditional Ojibway warning declares that pointing at the moon is a grave insult and may provoke the moon to bite off the finger. The tale reflects cosmic etiquette and cultural beliefs about lunar power.
A concise medical observation notes that unresolved disagreements among clinicians lead to the label heart failure, signaling a broad, non-specific cardiac diagnosis rather than a clear single condition.
New York price quotes list lead at 8.05 and copper at 25.62 per unit, bar silver at 99. Bolder Bay and Chino Copper report June outputs of 7,736,559 and 6,706,474 pounds respectively. Bullion Bar mine in Ajo installs machinery for soon starting operations. Holbrook oil field shows good prospects with several companies drilling and rigs being set up.
The Climax Molybdenum Company ships another $100000 in high grade molybdenite concentrates and May shipments reach 800 tons of crude ore from Rico to Durango. Jessie mine in Gold Run runs twenty stamps on ore from the lower level while Wellington Mines remains the district’s largest zinc concentrate producer. Paul Burdete ships thirty tons of lead carbonate ore from Ella mine Mineral Hill to Chamberlain sampler. Gold Bond Exploration Company secures Mt. Guyot silver lode claims. Donnelly and Sayers report bismuth ore sold at $208.75 per ton from Molly B Breckenridge.
Butte Cop per Zinc net proceeds reach 227 494 dollars as zinc sales rise and copper output for June hits 25 800 000 pounds, down from May’s 28 400 000. Miners receive 5 75 dollars daily under a 50 cent wage increase across several western mines. Ore mined June totals 40 000 tons with 91 percent mill recovery. Tax filing shows Anaconda Copper Mining net proceeds of 14 039 000 for year ended June 1, with 4 112 144 tons of ore extracted at 13 73 dollars per ton.
The Mogollon district update notes copper fixed at 26 cents per pound, up 2 percent. New skip pockets near completion on the Little Fannie shaft levels three nine and elev enth, feeding through cartridges to skips. Crusher plant and mine conveyor completed and undergoing trials as timbering continues in Johnson No. 1 shaft with about fifty feet of square sets remaining before sinking.
The Ohio Oil Company Curtis Petroleum Company and the Big Indian Oil Company complete preliminary plans to drill several wells in Poison Spider. The Warm Springs field in Hot Springs county is booming with about 1000 barrels of oil daily feeding a new line to Thermopolis as tools drive holes across the territory.
A Cincinnati inventor touts Freezone as a painless corn remedy. A tiny bottle costs a few cents at drug stores and promises quick relief by removing hard and soft corns or between the toes without soreness.
Glasgow native Sandy bids farewell to cousin David on a night train to London. David refuses to spare funds for him and laments not sending money to his own mother. Sandy mocks the lack of charity while David calmly suggests his chances depend on giving to family.
The judge-like dispute centers on Mr Rental described as old-fashioned yet a self-starter. Myrt dismisses him for tardy visits while Gert argues his initiative merits consideration.
Dialogue contrasts romance and imagination in marriage. She asks if married people become less imaginative, while He counters that explaining things may require more creativity and inventive thinking.
A girl and a boy arrive at school and list their names as Ralph and Edith Johnson. The teacher assumes siblings, but the girl reveals they are twins not brother and sister. The moment highlights the close bond and surprising facts about family relations among new pupils.
Ad promotes Red Cross Bag Blue for laundries claiming it makes the laundress happy and yields clean white clothes with all good grocers offering the product.
At a Los Angeles wedding breakfast Bishop Waterhouse counseled brides to avoid marrying selfish men. He called selfishness a graveyard that takes in all it can get and gives nothing in return.
Notice urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the LA signature and confirm use of Fletcher's Castoria. It emphasizes the remedy's long history for infants and children and advises careful examination of packaging.
A brief quip notes daylight saving unsettles a bashful suitor who cannot visit by day and must wait for darkness before leaving for home. The witticism frames courting as hampered by the time change.
A concise aphorism from C. H. Spurgeon urges that to gain we must give, to accumulate we must scatter, and to find happiness we should seek to make others happy. The message emphasizes altruism as the path to personal joy.
A concise editorial-like note argues that reliability and integrity in keeping agreements form the essential basis of good character, warning that repeated broken promises corrode trust and shape conduct.
A historical advertisement touts Eatonic tablets as a cure for digestion problems worsened by heat. It claims the compound neutralizes stomach juices and gases after meals, leaving a sweet cool stomach. Druggists endorse quick, pain free relief and a money back guarantee.
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