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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1918
Page
2
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for sick children showing signs of fever, crossness, or constipation. It extols a tasty laxative that cleanses stomach and bowels within hours, warns against counterfeits, and promotes the genuine product by the California Fig Syrup Company.
Undigested food and stomach distress described with belching gas and sourness. A tablet or two of Pape's Diapepsin provides instant relief from redigestion pain and dyspepsia with a pleasant harmless tablet sold at drug stores.
A laboratory tour shows the care in producing Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women’s health. 350000 pounds of herbs processed annually with solvents and pasteurization, into sterile bottles, reflecting skill cleanliness and precise preparations. Letters from women praise its health effects.
Major Edward W. McCaskey is ordered from San Francisco to Salt Lake City to take charge of University of Utah student army training corps amid influenza outbreaks. He will lead investigations into conditions, fix responsibility for poor feeding and housing, and assist rapid demobilization and furloughs.
American troops push into more villages in occupied territory with General Brown and General Smith establishing temporary civil governance. Pershing's proclamation demands obedience to military regulations, and Germans are required to surrender firearms. Food supply improves but pepper remains scarce due to mustard gas production.
The state department asks all Americans owning property in enemy countries to file a complete list with the department as part of war claims settlements.
Premier Lloyd George pledges British influence at the peace conference to ensure justice for war crimes. He calls for expulsion of enemy aliens from Britain and insists the Kaiser and accomplices be tried by an international court for murder and crimes afloat.
Washington reports vocational reeducation at government expense for wounded American soldiers is progressing in fourteen districts across the country. A December 4 summary shows 5584 cases needing training, with 4341 referred by the War Risk Insurance Board. over half are already listed with disability compensation.
President Wilson will be informed by wireless of plans for the assembling of the International conference and the peace congress. He will be advised on the Supreme War Council meeting at London, though no approval is yet given. The peace congress opens in the first week of January.
Theodore N. Vail urges Postmaster General Burleson to pool U S government and private wire networks under a single head. He favors coordinated operation without dismemberment and ability to revert to private ownership after control ends, proposing selective cooperation over full consolidation to avoid waste.
Miss Maud Woodworth daughter of the late Col. Frank Woodworth now resides at Grove Lodge Bracknell England. She has been connected with the Duchess de Ven dome Belgian refugee work and Eagle hut arrangements along with other wartime activities.
A wartime era appeal promotes Favorite Prescription by Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York. It claims to aid backache nervousness and fatigue in women through a temperance tonic made from herbal ingredients with no alcohol or narcotics. The ad urges readers to request trial tablets and free medical advice.
Real estate ad touts beautiful bungalow colony living, cheap prices and favorable terms. It promises hunting and protected waters near balmy Mexico and claims national bank delivery of a deluxe illustrated edition. requests mail order copies from Day Head Corporation in Day Head, Florida.
Popular Science Monthly reports on electric tattooing using a two electromagnet vibrator driven needle bar with one outline needle and six shading needles. The ink is forced through punctures via an ink tube, and operators are termed both professors and artists in this modern, painless method.
An inventor named Jones began life with a practical streak after observing his fountain pen at work. He leveraged that insight to design a sprinkler system.
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