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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
7
An health advertisement promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic to renew energy and build pure red blood. It claims impure blood causes many illnesses and suggests hot water before meals and the herbal remedy in tablet or liquid form sold for sixty cents at drug stores.
William Dean Howells, the famed author, says the film technical craft impresses him but he has no time for the literary or scenario aspects, expressing a sharp division between cinema craft and storytelling.
Doctors report grip epidemics causing body weakness and kidney distress with back and urinary troubles. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root praised as herbal aid for kidney healing after grip, sample bottle offered by mail for ten cents, with regular sizes sold locally.
A brief saying recalls a man who declares his ambition is to live in a way that makes him somebody’s best friend. The remark frames a moral aim of loyal fellowship and personal esteem.
An advertisement touts Red Cross Bag Blue laundry powder as superior to liquid blue, claiming it cleans better and goes farther than liquid formulations, available at grocers.
A fragment notes a misunderstanding about June marrying an officer and identifies that man as the president of Boon Powder Works. It juxtaposes a child’s view with a brief reflection on time, mentioning long periods between meals as the boy’s humorously grave observation.
The railroad wage commission report to Director General McAdoo proposes wage advances for about 1.94 million employees ranging from 1 to 43 percent, totaling $300 million, with net railroad costs near $260 million and broader effects on passenger and freight rates. The plan seeks cost of living alignment, shorter hours, and equal pay for equal service, while balancing war needs and industry-wide pay structures.
Wage Commission releases a table of monthly rates showing new pay levels for railroad workers across ranges 46 to 250 dollars. The document lists present and new monthly rates for each multiple block, highlighting gradual increments and notable jumps in higher tiers.
A Pennsylvania farmer invents a one handed knot tying device. Porcelain pyrometer tubes begin a new industrial line. Italy restricts mills on bread flour using at least 80 percent grain. Some tropical plants exhibit luminescent flowers stems and phosphorescent juices.
The government of Norway runs one agricultural college along with three experiment stations. American electric fans are employed to drive mosquitoes from the palace of the Caliph of Bagdad. An inventor combines a shaving brush with a rubber lather device on a single handle. A new boxing training dummy records strike position and force via a connected registering device.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes eighty patients in a padded ward each trying a different submarine solution. The keeper explains this is what inventors do, while a visitor acknowledges the inmates’ varied approaches to the problem.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills from four decades ago. It claims they regulate the liver and bowels.
In a quip about rations, an American soldier boasts of potatoes, steak, butter, honey, fruit, pie, and two eggs as a feast. Another replies that such a feed isn’t for eating but for thinking about, underscoring wartime scarcity and hunger.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary A. W. Gleason witnesses the oath on December 6, 1886. The medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Druggists sell it for 75 cents. Testimonials free.
Public dialogue hints at marital strain through a private joke about a wife and cigars. The exchange between Gusty and Gus centers on whether the topic is humorous, underscoring tension without explicit events or outcomes.
No longer need to feel ashamed of freckles. Othine double strength promises to remove freckles after nightly and morning use. One ounce often suffices to clear skin and restore a clear complexion with money back guarantee if it fails.
In No Hurry a new recruit in a Great Lakes company is repeatedly late for dress and roll. Frustrated by the tardiness the company commander calls him to the front and asks if he is with them in the war.
In a clipped exchange a clerk and a customer discuss books with the clerk noting vast stock and the boss’s approval. A Birmingham critique mocks the idea of finding a synonym book, while a Red Cross Bag Blue ad promises brighter washday clothes and grocers sell it.
A reflection on censorship and affection noting that friendship hinges on mutual respect. The dialogue questions who judges love letters and concludes the censor cannot love letters, implying reciprocal esteem is essential to friendship.
A pupil presents a word problem about a baby sister aging from one year with a 20 pound weight, gaining two ounces daily until sixteen, and doubling cost of living in ten years, asking how much graduation attire will cost. The scene shows a teacher prompting problems and students solving.
A reader says they enjoy some spring poetry but finds most pieces fail to distract from the ongoing coal shortage, offering a sly contrast between literary interest and practical concerns.
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