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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1919
Page
17
A vintage advertisement explains auto intoxication from bowel waste as the root of many illnesses. It claims chronic constipation poisoning the blood causes kidney, stomach, and skin issues and promises Fruit-a-tives tablets as a remedy. The ad cites a price of 6 for $3.50 and notes availability at dealers or by mail from Fruit-A-Tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
Ernest Vizetelly the translator of Emile Zola in England was found ill in a North London workhouse sick ward. At 66 he has lived in Canonbury for seven years writing Paris and Her People and fell on hard times prompting a campaign to place him on the pension list.
Washington Oct 17 The federal trade commission filed a formal complaint alleging a nationwide conspiracy among dental goods manufacturers and dealers. It names the American Dental Trade Association Boston the Dental Manufacturers Club New York and the Retail Dental Dealers' Association Providence. The FTC says individuals partnerships and corporations barred from joining or competing against members have been driven out or blocked from entry.
Paris reports customs statistics showing a trade deficit of about one and three quarter billion francs per month due to French exchange depreciation. Imports for January to August reach eighteen billion five hundred million francs, about four billion more than 1918, while exports exceed four billion francs with a rise of roughly seven hundred million francs.
A committee report to the American Manufacturers' Export association convention recommends creating a central diplomatic staff to make all appointments in the diplomatic and consular services except ambassadors and ministers. The staff would include the secretary of State as chairman ex officio and four president appointed members from the diplomatic service, with Senate confirmation and tenure during good behavior.
Expected curtailment of receipts today boosted the corn market in Chicago. Prices closed unsettled but higher for December and May futures, while oats finished unchanged and provisions dipped slightly.
The Sahara spans Northern Africa with vast arid plains as large as Europe. It features hot dry winds and scarce rainfall, with oases, camels, ostriches, and jackals among its fauna. Caravan routes corridor with bones of vanished camels, and fierce Arabs trading in Egyptian markets, signaling ancient peril.
The Japanese government imposes strict lata measures to curb opium and narcotics trade to north China and Manchuria, reports The Yakugyo Shuho Tokyo. It warns that without halting imports by British and American firms in south China, drugs will move northward. The colonial bureau will study the narcotics situation in south China and report to the government with a warning about trade conditions.
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