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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
15
The Calgary Herald notes a yearlong surge in demand for Western Canadian lands, with prices up ten to fifteen dollars per acre and wheat lands showing steep gains. Improved tillage, better rainfall, and government incentives spur a move to farming as high prices for wheat beef and wool persist.
A boy snatches John’s hat on his way to buy a dozen eggs. At the store a shopper asks who hit him and John replies the attacker was the dozen eggs.
Have a Clear Skin. Make Cuticura Soap your everyday toilet soap and assist it now and then by cuts of Cuticura Ointment to soften soothe and heal. For free samples address Cuticura Dept. X Boston. At druggists and by mail. Soap 25 Ointment 25 and 50.
A witty exchange turns on a drug clerk who mistook Maggie for medicine and shook her, prompting humorous courthouse chatter about the suitor’s bold attention.
An advertisement promotes Red Cross Bag Blue as a stain removing product for bright white fabrics. It urges readers to buy at all good grocers.
A compact note hints at a local pest clash as Paris green pesticide usage is mentioned, suggesting a garden or farm struggle over insect control and crop protection.
A brief editorial notes that courteous manners improve when people practice them openly in public spaces. It argues that social behavior benefits from repeated, visible demonstrations of polite conduct.
President Wilson personally addressed a joint session, urging immediate enactment of new war tax laws to fund the war. He warned against delays, stressed fiscal discipline, and called politics to a halt as Americans face a peak war crisis with loans, bonds, and a plan to tax profits, incomes, and luxuries. He asserted the nation will bear a just burden.
At the Chicago meeting of the American Corn Millers Federation speakers forecast a bountiful corn crop and urged higher corn quality as part of a nationwide campaign promoting corn as a wheat substitute.
A tired looking woman wins a seat on a Broadway car after singing The Star Spangled Banner, causing men absorbed in newspapers to rise. The anecdote appears in the New York Sun. Red Cross Bag Blue makes the hausdress happy, makes clothes whiter than snow. All good grocers. Adv.
A Brussels chemist advises housewives to use hot potato-boiling water to wash linen. Soak overnight, rub as usual without soap, and the linen should come out perfectly white.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a premier kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims broad effectiveness in many ailments and invites readers to sample with ten cents sent to Dr Kilmer Co at Binghamton New York.
A child named Bessie ran to her grandmother with a dry pressed leaf, a relic of a day long gone. She said she found it in the big Bible and wondered if it belonged to Eve’s Boston transcript.
A compact reflection notes that people can seem pleasant until effort is needed and that belief in personal ability drives much of success. The statements imply courage and confidence as essential components of work.
A humorous exchange features a would be burglar attempting to sell an alarm to a skeptical woman. The burglar claims authority from past experience, then jokes that the alarm reformed him, prompting the woman to respond with interest.
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