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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
3
A collage of quips and ads shows a governor warning a departing convict against old ties. Banter about barbershop age remedies, romance jests, and a clock seller's boast about lasting a lifetime punctuate the piece with sly humor.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh by taking it internally and affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims forty years of sale, price details, and offers testimonials, from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
He and She discuss paying off their house mortgage and joking about moving on to another loan and a motorcar in a witty exchange from a London Answers column.
An advertisement touts S. S. S. as a safe, mineral‑free blood cleanser for eczema. It claims the remedy cleanses the blood, boosts vitality, and has 50 years of tested use, urging readers to consult or buy via reputable druggists or write to the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Herbert Hoover states he is not a candidate and no one may speak for him politically. He will back the party that supports the League of Nations if the treaty goes to the presidential election and will exercise his American citizenship by declining to pledge his vote blindly. He warns against parties dominated by groups seeking socialism or attacks on free speech and representation, urging clear goals from candidates.
Washington reports savings exceed 1 million dollars yearly from the Shipping Board division of operations. Chairman Payne cites cuts in annual salary outlay by 739,875 and 455 layoffs. The plan also forecasts over 100,000 dollars saved by discontinuing printed publications.
British marines are landed at Panderma following the Turkish seizure of an arms depot at Akboarh near Chanek on the Dardanelles. Small detachments of the British are on guard. No casualties reported. French troops reinforce the gendarmerie at Adrinople and British artillery is said to be landed at Timid, terminus of the Baghdad railway.
A blaze swept through all floors of the Berkshee apartment hotel in San Francisco trapping and injuring many occupants. Police and fire crews fought to rescue residents as reports varied on the number believed trapped and bodies recovered from lower floors amid extensive burns and hospitalizations.
A Kansas City Star dispatch notes a press agent hoping to bring Prince Donietski to the United States to wed an American heiress. He says European royals won t accept him, so a union with a prosperous American family would suit him, and the idea is welcomed as beneficial for the prince and for American society.
In a Springfiled Republican critique the Osler death is linked to a claim he urged chloroforming men at sixty. The author cites his speech referencing Trollope’s The Fixed Period where men retire at sixty for a year of contemplation before peaceful departure by chloroform, and ponders the impact on human progress.
A wry line about hesitation when opportunity seems distant, comparing it to waiting on shore while submarines drift by. It questions husbands who keep many mothers in law busy as a humorous domestic aside.
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