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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1919
Page
14
A reader from Providence reports relief from backache nervousness and headaches after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The note urges women with functional disturbances to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Med Co Lynn Mass.
A friend muses on Jones as versatile, comparing him to a bookcase that folds into a bed, noting his adaptable nature across scenarios and tasks. The remark frames Jones as the kind of person who adapts to changing needs with ease.
An ad promises quick corn and callus relief using Freezone. A tiny bottle costs little at drug stores and, with a few drops, stops hurting and removes the corn or callus root and all without pain.
A pupil asks if Rome was founded by Romeo and the teacher corrects with a playful twist. The wise man concludes that Juliet’s fate intersects with Romeo, offering a humorous pun on the famous pair.
The fragment notes Cholly Woggles regards himself as a great catch while calling another a poor fish. It adds a quirky fact that it would take 27 of 600 spiders to produce one pound of web, mixing humor with odd measurements.
Reports from Arizona and New Mexico cover the state fair November 3 to 8, law actions in Gallup, university military expansion at Arizona, auto license totals in New Mexico, and federal road, housing, and tariff topics. Also noted are dairy upgrades in Roswell, gubernatorial clemency, crop threshing concerns, new Douglas clinic, forest land additions, Tijeras road work, price investigations by food administration, and War Department equipment for New Mexico highway construction.
Handbill advocating overthrow of the military in Gary, Indiana, prompts city authorities to consider a military court and possible executions. Nine prisoners amid raids. anonymous threats target Mayor Hodges and city mills. In New York, anti labor anarchist circulars threaten Justice Weeks and officials. terror plots linked to May Day and June 2. Corpus Christi reports 357 dead or missing from a tropical hurricane.
Announcement from Honolulu T H details complete cures of leprosy at Kalihi territorial hospital with twenty patients paroled recently and no disease recurrence. Blood tests show no leprosy germ. patients under treatment improve. Chaulmoogra oil, long used for leprosy, is the sole medicine, refined through a process by Dr A L Dean of the University of Hawaii.
Testimony in a court-martial case over bribes for naval enlistments describes politicians seeking to enroll friends through visits and letters to Lieut. Com. Christopher Marsden. Marsden faces trial. his assistant Frank P. Bouvier testifies that he never heard of Marsden accepting presents from anyone.
An OCR fragment lists prices for horsehides and ponies: headless hides 50 cents less, green salted horsehides priced at $10 and $12. It also notes glue and other items, with pony prices around $4 to $7. The legibility is limited and several words are garbled.
Market brief lists current commodity prices with bar silver at $1.17 per ounce and copper, lead, spelter, tungsten figures. Copper and lead noted with unit prices, tungsten shown per unit, rounding variants indicate reporting style from a financial page.
At Chicago market notes show hogs varied by grade with heavy $14.50 to 18.50, sows around $13.15 to 14.25, and pigs $14.75 to 15.50. Cattle ranged from beef steers $11.25 to 18.25, butcher cows $6.50 to 13.50, veal calves $19.50 to 20.75, and feeder stockers $6.25 to 12.50. Sheep and lambs priced $13.75 to 16.15, ewes $6.75 to 8.00, rams $7.00 to 13.20.
Butter Creamery 49 2 Yyec eggs Firsts 53 54c ordinary firsts 44 4546c at mark cases included 45 49c storage packed firsts 54% 55c. Potatoes Northern sacked bulk whites 2.15 2.35 Red give r Ohips 2.60 2.75, oic in 2.0 Cash Grain in Chicago mixed 1.42 No 2 yellow 1.42 1.48 Oats No 2 white 71% 72c N white 69% 72c Rye No 2 42 1.42% Batley 1.21 1.34 Timothy 8.50 11.25.
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as instant relief for colds and grippe. Doses every two hours up to three, opening nasal passages, stopping nose run, easing headache and fever, with no quinine and a pleasant taste. Sold at drug stores for a few cents.
A flirtatious pair of women debate romance and fidelity with a sharp quip. One asks what is worse than a man who pursues love despite resistance. The other retorts that the worse is a man who refuses love despite consent.
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder issues. It promises consistent quality in every bottle and offers a sample for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
A joke from London Tit-Bits praises Miss Prattle for generosity and willingness to give away even her best friend, highlighting her selflessness in a lighthearted mockery.
Genuine Aspirin sold under Bayer name in Bayer Tablets of Aspirin package. Directions cover colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. Bayer marks nineteen years of physician usage. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Bayer is trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
The fragment discusses social claims comparing bachelors and married men crime rates, followed by advertising lines about a product named Red Cross Bag Blue and other generic promo phrases about clothing cleanliness and grocery stores. It reads as an old ad plus sociological assertion with no clear event or source.
A San Francisco Chronicle quip jokes about hair loss and marriage, with a playful jab implying the question came after the wedding. The remark reflects light humor in social commentary from the period.
An old classified style ad offers a $100 reward for a catarrh cure. It claims internal use improves blood and mucous surfaces, strengthens health, and supports nature. Mentions Druggists 75 cents and testimonials, with F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as the company.
The remark accuses price hikes in footwear of being a profiteering skin game. It questions the value of faultless perfection, noting that avoiding mistakes often means little achievement.
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