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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1913
Page
6
Calomel is a mercurial purgative linked to rheumatism and bone wasting. The ad touts Jacobs' Liver Salt as mercury free, flushing stomach and bowels, dissolving uric acid, boosting liver activity, with quick but mild action. It claims higher safety, better prevention, and offers samples from Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta.
A child asks if Mrs Blow belongs to a brass band after hearing she often "blows her own horn" a pun that leads to a humorous family moment about reputation and teasing.
A collage of light quips from the Washington Herald about fortune tellers and marriage. A street scene exchange unfolds with a judge ejecting a straphanger. The page also promotes Hicks Capudine for headaches and Oxidine malaria remedy alongside a gag about a man who delivers goods without talking.
In Sixth avenue a pushy passer shoved Mr Goslington aside. He claims swift vengeance at a fire hydrant, where the man collided and limped away, the hydrant untouched and the crowding incident left unforgotten.
Thousands of big wood rats invade Santa Paula California forcing women to avoid church services. Authorities seek abatement as fires drive rats from woods. A curious encounter with a so called antiquities collector ends with a demand for an old debt repayment.
A Quaker couple describes lifelong dread of meals despite hunger due to poor appetite. They switched from coffee to Instant Postum, noting relief from post-meal dullness and improved well being. The ad promotes Postum as a coffee substitute, with preparation instructions and pricing details.
J P Weinacker of Mobile spoke at the Southern Ice Exchange convention in Birmingham on advertising. He argued that copy matters and recounted how renaming ice to ISE and branding, wagon signs, and a local peddler’s tip transformed sales, keeping Weinacker Ice Factory operating at capacity.
The passage outlines seven steps to close a sale: finding the customer learning needs awakening interests developing desires making the demonstration presenting the argument securing the order. It emphasizes understanding human nature and the prospect's needs and keeping eyes and ears open while speaking sparingly. It advises aiming before acting and then acting decisively to guide the customer toward purchase.
Butler Bros a Chicago mail order firm with 225000 customers spends 45000 monthly on pasture advertising and last year sold over 100000 in goods. They credit advertising for this business and say they maintain customer merit to keep control. This is one of countless similar cases in the United States. Publicity pays.
A young hardware store owner faced unsold patented tools. He offered ten dollars to the person who found the most uses for the tool. The contest spurred varied advertising ideas and boosted demand, ultimately selling the stock and prompting another order. The office boy notes advertising brought him to the page.
In Africa on Harem Street a controversial ceremony could wipe out the quarter. Pariah dogs once plagued Constantinople streets but were driven away under the Young Turks regime amid police activity. Garrow faced 59 arrests for truancy vagrancy assault and battery and larceny and breaking and entering.
The Column of Constantine, raised by Constantine the Great, once eight porphyry drums tall, now a wrecked monument famed as the hooped column. Locals call it the burnt column and tell legends of a fifteenth century storm and Turkish siege. It remains nearly the lone surviving fragment of Constantine’s city.
Scientists report a method to produce ivory from cow milk that far resembles natural ivory and can substitute for amber horn coral and celluloid. The milk ivory holds color well polishes to a high luster and could expand commercially as natural ivory grows rarer and pricier.
Paul Mestas, a Mexican man, returned a marriage license to Denver City Clerk Thom claiming he did not love Lola and had seen her only that day. He requested the license and his money back, stating he changed his mind about the marriage.
A painting bought for 15 dollars at a Monte Rey California second hand store by Danish artist Hugo V. Pederson sold to a British museum for 20000 dollars. Pederson restored the canvas after discovering it was an old Dutch master piece. The storekeeper bought it from an elderly woman who said the painting had been in the family for over 200 years and was brought to America from Europe.
Florence A Richardson of San Bernardino California, aged nineteen, pleaded guilty to bigamy in superior court. Judge Oster sentenced her to three years in San Quentin with a suspended term and probation on the condition she refrain from smoking cigarets.
A tortoise set fire to St Mark's Episcopal Church in Denver causing substantial damage and the death of 25 tortoises. The animals were kept in a lamp-box in the guild room. They belonged to Rev. John H. Houghton, rector of St Mark's, who had gathered them from various parts of the world.
William Garrow, thirteen, of Patterson, New Jersey, was sent to the state home for boys by Judge William Hughes and is hailed as the champion bad boy of the state by the Paterson paper.
A Constantinople street from St. Sofia to the Bosphorus is described as filled with harems. Bay windows show women who cannot be looked at from outside due to fat-heeled screens. The street lacks water plugs fire hydrants lamp posts and mailboxes. A blaze once started was likely to spread rapidly.
An English observer describes the Johore camphor language, a mixed Jakun Malay tongue used by camphor hunters to appease the camphor tree spirit named Bisan. The belief holds that speaking Malay or Jakun alerts the spirit and blocks gum gains, so a secret tongue, a Jakun Malay blend, is spoken to mislead her. The Jakuns are among the peninsula’s wild yet peaceful hunter communities.
The record reproduces heraldic bearings for the Australia coat of arms. It notes a British College of Arms rendering with quartered shield featuring a lion passant and Welsh cross, an imperial crown, a crest, and a wreath with a star. A dexter kangaroo and sinister emu stand as supporters in proper colors.
A veteran infantryman in the French army of 1886 had a bullet enter his temple and emerge through his mouth. The bullet left no visible hole in the skull, and Legoux, the patient, reports coughing as the bullet fell onto his tongue. The unusual case concerns a year long headache and veins noted in the old soldier’s frame.
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