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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
6
An advertisement claims Father John's Medicine is a safe all year tonic and flesh builder that helps people gain weight. It cites Mrs Lucy Wing of Liberty Missouri as proof her run down baby became fat and healthy after use.
A classroom dialogue notes the son prefers gasoline engines over oil powered motors with practical use of gasoline. The ad ends by touting Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a digestive aid.
Edward W. Pickard reports that Holland will not surrender the former German emperor for trial citing constitutional limits. Allied notes indicate intense postwar maneuvering in Europe with Britain and France mobilizing troops to protect Persian and Caucasus interests while opposing bolshevik advances. The piece also covers Admiral Sims fire at the Navy and Hoover boom as potential 1920 presidential winds.
Rhode Island asks the Supreme Court to test the validity of the federal prohibition amendment and the Volstead act, challenging state police powers and constitutional limits. The suit, directed by the state legislature, argues the amendment is unconstitutional and void. The article notes another provision punishes property owners who display liquor advertising signs with up to $2000 fines or two years in prison.
The first cargo of radicals left the United States and landed in Finland as Reds crossed into Russia greeted by boisterous Bolsheviks. Emma Goldman and Berkman followed, while preparations for more rush arrests continue. In Chicago William Bross Lloyd and 34 others face conspiracy indictments. New York Assembly suspends five Socialist members-elect amid disloyalty charges, with defense by prominent lawyers. Clemenceau’s defeat prompts MilIerand to become France's premier and president of the peace conference.
An old style ad promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe and tasty laxative for children, urging mothers to insist on the name California on the bottle and promising mild relief. The passage also includes a brief social remark about the Grabcoin reception and Mrs Grabcoin's Paris gown provoking comments among guests.
Advertises Diamond Dyes claiming long lasting, fadeless color for wool silk cotton and blends with an instruction book. Mentions color card and dealer guidance to match materials. Also includes a humorous quote contrasting an archaeologist and a jazz hound.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment Soap and Talcum for pimples redness and itching. Recommends touching affected areas then bathing with soap and hot water, rinse, dry, and dust with talcum for fragrance. Price listed as 25 cents each.
Mrs Warren asks where he is bound and he replies to save the world in a travel bag. Warren, former editor of Appeal to Reason, is a nationally known socialist lecturer departing from home for a speaking engagement as strikes and unrest swirl in the civil world.
A Baltimore quip clarifies terms about an airship with a humorous exchange noting it is a balloon airship rather than a dirigible. The odd aside invites readers to consider terminology while lightening the page.
Ad promotes Garfield Tea as beneficial for health and general wellbeing.
An aged custom in Hawaii assigns babies to foster mothers when relatives or friends "speak for" them. A woman with eight adopted children explains she yields due to superstition, risking harm if she resists. A native princess has given her baby to her mother, making the child legally adopted and thus the grandmother's daughter.
A humorous exchange about growing hair features a barber claiming a bald man’s baby could spark hair growth. The item plays on knowledge about children and parenting with a punchline about experience and certainty.
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