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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
15
People feel weak and tired during the year and seek renewed stamina. The ad touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a pure herbal tonic to improve blood quality, reduce headaches and backaches, and refresh the body with no alcohol or narcotics. It notes ingredients like Golden Seal root and Black Cherry bark and promotes tablets at sixty cents.
William Dean Howells, famed author, criticizes cinema. He admires the technical webcam and camera work but has little regard for the storytelling and scenary presented by films.
Doctors report widespread grip with distressing symptoms that leave the body run down and kidneys harmed. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is advertised as a herbal remedy, with a sample bottle offered by mail for ten cents to readers who request it.
A dialogue reveals a man's aspiration to be remembered as somebody's best friend. The remark frames ambition in personal relationships over public achievement.
A brief ad notes Red Cross Bag Blue cleaning agent offers improved performance, claiming it goes farther than liquid blue and is available from any grocer.
A dialogue excerpt notes June marrying an officer who is president of Boon Powder works. A small boy reflects that the longest periods between meals define his life.
The railroad wage commission report to Director General McAdoo proposes wage increases totaling about 300 million dollars for 1.94 million workers, with raises from 1 to 43 percent based on living costs. Some unions push for more while others accept the plan, which ties pay to mileage and avoids gender or race discrimination.
Table lists monthly pay increases by wage commission with ranges of pay from 46.01 to 250.00 and corresponding new monthly rates. Several hundred line items show present to new rate steps for each wage band across many successive intervals.
A Pennsylvania farmer invents a hand worn device to tie knots in twine, while porcelain pyro meter tubes gain industrial use. Italy bans mills for bread flour under 80 percent grain use, and tropical plants are noted for light giving qualities with phosphorescent juices.
The government of Norway maintains one agricultural college and three experiment stations. American electric fans of large size are used to drive mosquitoes from the palace of the Caliph of Bagdad. An inventor combines a shaving brush with a rubber rubbing device on one handle. A boxing training dummy linked to a registering device records position and force of blows.
A quip from the Birmingham Age-Herald notes eighty patients in padded cells, each proposing a different solution to a submarine problem. The keeper explains this as what they call inventors row. The visitor replies with understanding of the curious scene.
An ad touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills popular for regulating liver and bowels. The message emphasizes their long history and intended health effect.
In the trenches two US soldiers argue about food with irony. One boasts of potatoes steak butter honey fruit pie and two eggs while a second says such a feast is not to be had at any price. The first replies that the meal is not to eat but to think about.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The affidavit is dated December 6, 1886, with notary A. W. Gleason. The medicine is described as taking internally to affect mucous surfaces via the blood. Druggists offer it at 75 cents. testimonials are free.
A terse exchange centers on a man Gus and his partner Gusty about humor over cigars during Christmas. The discussion hints at marital tension and a lack of shared amusement, ending with a heavy silence and no smoking.
A drug advertisement promotes Othine double strength to remove freckles. Apply nightly and morning for possible clearing of dark spots with money back guarantee if ineffective. Most cases require one ounce.
In No Hurry a Great Lakes rookie known for lateness is called to the front by the commander who asks if he is with them in the war. The exasperated leader emphasizes discipline and commitment amid marching obedience and unit cohesion.
The note includes an old Castoria advertisement urging parents to check the Lifedilt signature and a cartoonish bookstore exchange about finding a synonym book. It ends with a detergent puff for Red Cross Bag Blue promising exceptionally white clothes.
The piece ponders censorship of affection and argues friendship hinges on mutual respect. It notes the censor lacks love letters and asserts relationships survive only with reciprocal esteem.
A teacher asks for an original multiplication problem. William presents a query about a baby sister who is one year old, weighs 20 pounds, gains two ounces daily until age sixteen, and a future price doubling in ten years, asking how much the graduation outfit would cost.
A brief exchange shows mixed views on spring poetry. One person enjoys poetry some, while another notes it rarely distracts from a coal shortage.
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