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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1922
Page
3
A Milwaukee dinner scene features Representative Frear commenting on high clothing costs while a banker jokes about a second-hand clothesman at the break door. A psychology note notes marriages often succeed when love endures, tied to springtime courtships.
In a brief testimonial W. Meadville of Nebraska reports weeks in bed due to kidney and back pain improved after taking Tantac. He credits quick relief and lasting strength gains, praising Toulne and noting Tantus sold by good druggists. The piece also includes a humorous barber shop exchange from the Birmingham Age Herald.
An advertisement emphasizes taking aspirin only as directed on Bayer tablets with the Bayer Cross and notes the drug's long-standing physician recommended safety. The fragment mentions a front page safety motto and a humorous dialogue about caution on a golf course with a stray ball.
A classic ad touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as pure and free of harmful drugs. It claims scientific, vegetable base, non stimulant, taken in small doses, with a sworn purity statement on each bottle. Sample requests offered by mail to Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
Detroit Free Press notes a trend of New York undertakers moving away from lugubrious tones and offering lighter, more upbeat options for funeral music. The piece hints at a broader shift toward modernized tributes and jazzy renditions of traditional dirges.
Fragmentary dialogue from an American Legion weekly item shows a teacher threatening to send a note to Johnny's father, while Johnny resists, revealing school discipline context and family dynamics.
Chicago May 18 reports circulate among labor leaders that the general strike planned for May 22 by President Fred Mader and followers is unofficially called off. Refusal to vote until council is reorganized follows a meeting amid allegations of vote suppression and amid the arrest of Mader, Murphy, and Shea after the killing of two police officers last week.
Memphis capitalist and insurance man Miles G Buckingham is under arrest after his wife Mrs Lorraine Wirris Buckingham was fatally shot near Pickens, Mississippi while returning from Biloxi. Buckingham claims the weapon discharged accidentally as he argued with her in the automobile. more than twenty witnesses summoned to the Madison county grand jury in Canton to testify on the case.
Market reports show spring wheat with various patent grades traded around 8.85 per cwt, soft and hard winter wheat prices listed, rye flour and butter prices noted. Hay and haylage prices vary by quality, with timothy and clover lists. Live poultry and iced poultry prices appear, along with new potatoes, onions, potatoes, and onions. Cattle and hogs markets are detailed with receipts and price ranges for steers, heifers, cows, calves, and hogs, plus sheep categories and regional remarks about market activity.
The British Medical Research Council issues the first so called germ guide book 2700 detailing a national collection of disease germs. The Lister Institute houses the British collection with ongoing additions while similar repositories exist in Paris New York and Vienna. The catalogue lists germ name donor and gift year.
P Donovan notes Chinese customs expert discusses beauty and gentility tied to foot binding. He cites Yao Niang, imperial concubine of Li Yu, who wore foot bindings to create tiny feet. A symbolic tale describes lotus blossom-like feet measured at three inches.
A narrator walks with Junior when a neighbor Miss Jones sits nearby. Junior asks her to inflate his football after the narrator and another person fail. He quips that his dad says she is the longwinded woman ever breathed.
A jumble of quoted phrases and detached musings from the Birmingham Age Herald about social attitudes and petty judgments. It includes snatches of dialogue on Mr Grummpson and neighbors, reflections on money and happiness, and stray references to varied topics without a clear narrative or attribution.
A collection of quirky excerpts includes Theodore Dresser quipping that criticism is a lost art, a story of a woman admiring a painting titled Saved with a dripping Newfoundland dog, and a string of lighthearted exchanges about sleep, trains, and newspaper age tall tales. The tone mirrors a late era humor column with brisk, conversational snippets.
If you have an idea that coffee or tea drinking may be injurious to your health, why not stop it for a week or so, and drink delicious, fragrant Postum instead.
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