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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1919
Page
3
In Yonkers Statesman humor, Mrs. Flatbush and Mrs. Bensonhurst joke about a new cook. One asks if she burns things and is told she only burns the fifty dollars, implying no serious cooking mishaps. The exchange highlights light city wit.
A witty Film Fun item riffs on haute film fashion with a jab about actresses and attire. It notes decollete bathing costumes are acceptable only to a point, poking fun at style norms with a light, humorous tone.
Napoleon wore a sword with a large diamond at his wedding to Josephine, believing the gem would bring fortune and good luck throughout his reign.
A quirky exchange asks if bees lose their temper while noting that their stings do not. The line plays on a common saying about being “as sharp as an exchange” and highlights bee behavior with a humorous twist.
A trove of brief items reports Edward F. Thompson killed when a parachute failed near Fresno. Idaho miners die in a Hecla shaft accident while a replica Lincoln log cabin rises at Richmond Missouri. An interurban collision near Nampa leaves five dead, and Oregon’s governor resists a suffrage session. Additional items include a Lincoln death in Washington, a French credit update, and bold postwar naval plans.
A digest of 1919 era news items notes France considering September bread rationing due to potential wheat shortfalls. Other items include British minesweepers colliding off the Esthenian coast with casualties, political shifts in Germany, and notable deaths and events across the world.
In bright promotional prose the ad touts August Flower as a sovereign remedy for tired overworked stomachs. It claims to ease indigestion fermentation of food sour stomach and constipation by stimulating the liver and cleansing the intestines. Sold everywhere.
The plan would expand Korean cotton cultivation to 250000 acres of American varieties and 85000 acres of native cotton by end of 1928. This growth is intended to bolster Japan's spinning and weaving industries toward foreign-output independence.
The Bayer Cross on Bayer Tablets of Aspirin confirms authenticity. Buy unbroken Bayer packages with proper directions for relief from headache toothache earache neuralgia colds and pain. Handy 12 tablet tins are cheap at drug stores with larger packages also available.
A magnate questions delaying a visit as a stenographer’s long acquaintance deepens into friendship and hints at marriage, suggesting time and incentives to speed up the meeting.
For years druggists have watched Dr Kilmer Swamp Root rise in use as a kidney liver and bladder medicine. The ad states it is a physician prescription strengthening medicine and that it helps organs work as nature intended. It notes Swamp Root has stood the test of years and asks readers to start treatment at once or request a sample by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer & Co.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes wireless invention promises romance yet to be adopted for love messages. The dialogue calls the idea charming but unfinished, suggesting slipups in early wireless communication.
A reflective aphorism notes that far more pleasure comes from pursuing happiness than from finally catching it, emphasizing ongoing effort over a fleeting achievement.
A Pittsburgh woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending months of backache headaches and weakness. She thanks her husband for buying three bottles after reading an ad and urges others with displacements inflammation or irregularities to try the remedy from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
The port of St. Johns in New Brunswick is set for nationalization with immediate improvements. The move would elevate St. Johns into one of the Dominion’s leading ports.
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