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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
10
Jessup resists his sister Prue as he pursues a goddess in Mrs. Vane. A chance meeting with Rose Mayberry during a stalled horse event seeds a budding romance, pushing Jessup toward an arranged wedding while Prue notes Rose’s charm and calls her a providence for the couple.
A traveler recounts a North Arctic feast at Napsangoak's tent. Men wear blue fox and polar bear furs, butcher knives in hand, carving raw seal meat for dogs and guests. Host Tim offers a generous portion while diners share roles and courtesy despite the grisly scene.
A Youth’s Companion account discusses a pupil’s explanation of smell and nose anatomy. It covers the olfactory nerve path, nasal structure, and cautions against tobacco and alcohol for students. It notes that cold affects smell and suggests washing the nose with hot water.
Afghan greetings are ceremonious and lengthy with phrases like Salaam allakun and Wa ba allakum salaam. In Asia magazine A C Jewett notes exchanges often last five minutes as friends greet each other with polite questions about well being.
Federal wheat grading uses dockage to measure foreign material in a sample. Dockage affects value, with rules for removal and grading on dockage-free basis, plus definitions of dockage and foreign material and sample methods.
In New York the modern Jimmy Valentine figure, 23 year old Richard Armstrong, confessed to bank robberies netting about a million in currency and Liberty bonds. He claimed leadership of a crook ring, but investigators doubt deeper methods were revealed. He was caught trying to sell a $5,000 Liberty bond at a Bowery bank. Armstrong also admitted looting a Broadway law office of $143,000 in bonds and currency and described his finger tip skills easing safes and art gallery paintings through touch.
London report recalls old tales of wives sold for beer. At Stourbridge police court Arthur Sidaway faced maintenance arrears with testimony that Sarah Fraser had been signed over years earlier by Jacob Fraser to Richard Knowles in exchange for humane treatment and future maintenance. The judge denied the order and ordered the woman’s arrest for bigamy.
Canadian farmers may receive at least 40 cents a bushel more than the fixed 2.15 rate for last year’s crop, with about 40,000,000 to be distributed among Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba growers. Open market outlook and world supply concerns were discussed by Dr. Robert Magill amid calls for open trading.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as a nausea free calomel tablet reform claiming no taste no nausea no griping and a thorough liver cleanse by morning. It notes a five cent price and a refund if customers are not delighted with the product. The ad ends with a quip about a man living up to his wife’s expectations.
A testimonial from Mrs. Delia M. Doyen praises Eatonic after a decade of stomach trouble. The ad claims over half a million users last year and explains Eatonic works by taking up acids and gases and removing them. It urges readers to ask their druggist for a box with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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