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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1919
Page
7
A Belleville Illinois woman narrates drastic weight gain and recovery using Peruna after catarrh illness. The testimonial claims dramatic health improvements and lifelong use of Dr Hartman’s Health Book, with purchase details for Peruna tonic and almanac.
A major excise concession becomes an experimental dry zone in Calcutta. The educational area includes the university, colleges, and schools with about 10 000 students plus key public squares hospitals churches mosques and temples. Grog and drug shops will be removed from the area for a year.
Local treatment cannot reach the disease seat, so Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. It uses tonics and blood purifiers, claimed to cure catarrh. Drugeists sell it for 75 cents with testimonials available. F J Cheney & Co Toledo OH.
A quip notes the futility of wrangles at peace talks. The speaker asks why such bickering should exist to warn future leaders not to rush to war. The line satirizes diplomatic posturing and the cycle of escalation.
A brief exchange centers on a dove tinted note and a sharp retort about tucking it away in a pigeon hole. The snippet captures a witty, era-tinged line with no additional context.
An old lady visits the judge and, after a playful exchange about being the probate judge, explains her husband died and left several infidels, claiming she wants to be their executioner in a humorous quip from the Chicago Daily News.
Wonder drug Othine double strength is advertised to remove freckles. Apply a small amount twice daily to see freckles fade or disappear, with a money back guarantee if it fails to clear the skin. Most cases need only one ounce.
A city man urges a farmer to be happy on his farm but the farmer explains he cannot be happy because the farm cannot raise enough to cover the mortgage interest. The exchange highlights financial strain overshadowing rural contentment.
A dialogue mocks a man by noting he would make a perfect manicure girl suggesting he lacks harsh mercy. The line hints at a successful author being praised by a merciless critic.
The revised League covenant was adopted in plenary by the peace conference with no dissent. President Wilson named Sir James Eric Drummond as secretary general and a committee to inaugurate the league. Nine labor principles were added to the treaty as Italy appears among members. The session discussed emperor trial provisions but delayed adoption.
Allied powers decide to indict the former German emperor for a supreme offense against the sanctity of treaties. Holland will be asked to surrender the royal refugee for arraignment before a five judge court named by the United States Great Britain France Italy and Japan.
Two armed men robbed the brokerage office of Charles Fishback, dealer in Russian exchange, and escaped with about $13,000 in cash and between $6,000 and $7,000 in Liberty Bonds. Local police search for the suspects.
Four types of people are described as grouchy or pleasant at home and in public. Chief Butler of Los Angeles questions a vagrant woman who is found to be a working wife waiting for her husband in France. She quips that she is doing well as a business woman and jokes about her husband.
The British naval tug Hughli sank at Nieuport with the loss of twenty two crewmen. Ten sailors were rescued. The vessel carried explosives for clearing Ostend channel obstructions. Cause unsettled whether a sand bar impact or an explosion caused the sinking.
An NEAC passenger, J. Lester Allen of Dorchester Boston, died when a passenger plane fell 150 feet into the Charles River basin at Cambridge. Pilot Ensign W Elliott Nightingale suffered severe bruises. In Rome the Fiume national council ceded state and municipal powers to a representative of the Italian government for King Victor Emmanuel.
American forces shrink from the front ahead of fleet redeployment as Russian troops trained by Allied officers assume positions. No Americans remain on the Pinega Kadish Sredmakrenga fronts while Dvina and Vaga columns still include some U.S. personnel. allied positions near Tulgas have in part retreated.
A thinker debates belief in a hellish afterlife, weighing reality versus advisability. The exchange pits a heavy minded man’s skepticism against a cautious view of eternal punishment as a practical concern.
A playful exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal notes a couple discussing travel plans for next summer. The wife mentions Europe as a destination while the husband quips about the cost of talking about trips and jokes that they are headed to Hornet Crossroads.
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