Mountain air sparks a mustache tale and dinner wit
A playful piece riffs on mountain air and a bald upper lip. It also notes a social dinner with Mr Thorndyke, the Allison family, and Louis, observing light humor on Englishness and house servants.
07 Aug 1916
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1916
Page
1
A playful piece riffs on mountain air and a bald upper lip. It also notes a social dinner with Mr Thorndyke, the Allison family, and Louis, observing light humor on Englishness and house servants.
A Harlem shopkeeper recalls a humorous exchange over a dish with a lid. A woman negotiates a price by excluding the lid and offers two cents, prompting the storekeeper to remark on the long wait to recover the rest of the cost.
Imperial county's new farm adviser Paul I Dougherty surveys local ranches on a tour of inspection to determine the best steps in the grasshopper fight.
A discussion extols ten cents as a small price with vast value through common purchases and uses. Examples range from food and electricity to sewing and transportation. The Puente Walnut Growers Association forecasts a walnut crop about 30 percent larger than last year with a sizable new acreage coming into bearing.
The Puente Walnut Growers' Association has doubled its plant capacity, boosting readiness for the upcoming fall harvest and increasing processing capability to handle higher yields.
An ad promoting Rad Salts claims to flush kidneys from uric acids after meat consumption, promising relief from aches and urinary troubles. The remainder notes a church sermon by Rev. E A Roys, plus brief hometown updates on Dr A B Brown, Dee McConnell, Mrs McConnell, and Agnew Hull’s recovery from blood poisoning.
An advertisement touts Jad Salts as inexpensive and harmless treatment to flush and stimulate sluggard kidneys and ease bladder irritation. It claims the effervescent lithia-water drink is safe and widely used to prevent kidney and bladder diseases.
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