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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
7
Oliver Ayler, recently dead, and Fred Upham ran a Cairo hardwood yard. After mud from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers dirtyed planks, Ayler hired a crew of black workers to wash stock. A single black man volunteered to hold the hose and declared himself the washman.
A jumble of vintage newspaper snippets includes Grove's Tasteless chill tonic praise and a misprint filled ad line about Misfortune. It also recounts a wrist injury to a first baseman en route to hospital and a comic exchange between a janitor and a ballplayer.
A fragmented prose piece blends dialogue from various speakers with promotional lines about Allan's Foot-Ease and an arsenic of field expositions. It weaves courtroom chatter about a defendant’s help, a missing means of certainty, and a cheeky ad for foot relief products amid casual banter.
Lawyer John J. Stanchfield dismisses minor objections raised by a client Marry Thaw lint infections cited as quibbles with no bearing on the case. A local farmer quips about domestic matters as a spring moral vignette noted in the overheard talk.
An excerpt from George Weston in the Saturday Evening House questions the idea of a heroine reaching eighteen, contrasting beauty and wisdom with literary tropes. The passage critiques staged maturity and moral certainty, using provocative phrasing about age and idealized traits.
The thirty third annual Arkansas Association of Pharmacists session concluded with the election of officers. Rooker Latimer of DeQueen was named president with WP Sree as vice president and Mary Tomn of Hilde Teok as secretary treasurer. The meeting drew more than four score leading pharmacists to discuss efficiency and professional matters.
Fragmented local notices report a furniture store fire in Conway damaging a principal business section and causing estimated losses. Paris imposes smallpox quarantine while Malvern church attendance remains steady. Ank down waterworks contract awarded to H W Cardwell of Texarkana after 19 bids. others note forest ranger Ben Vaughn maintaining Big Flat Syla more road for summer travel.
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruling upending the bond plan to halt Wagon Wheel improvements triggers confusion among county officers and property owners who still press to complete a bridge and flood control works. Judge Thompson notes misinterpretation of the decision and outlines proposed steps to proceed with a roadway and viaduct project, while officials caution about timing and safety.
The paper prints hundreds of testimonial letters praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from female ailments and suffering. Letters claim cures for nervous spells, kidney issues, weakness, and general restoration to health, with readers urged to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
An advertisement touts real skin comfort from bathing and anointing tender irritated skin with a “creamy” emulsion. It promotes free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept XY in Heston and endorses a theory by John North of Toledo about tuberculosis linked to lime deficiency, noting higher lime in arid regions and plants.
A garbled passage questions belonging to the moneyed class and loyalty, comparing motives to an ostrich’s nest approach. It includes line fragments about Red Cross, color symbolism, grocery advertising, and a maxim about a poor rule failing to work in our favor, indicating a collected OCR snippet rather than a full article.
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