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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
14
An advertisement discusses authentic Bayer Bayer Aspirin requiring the Bayer name on packaging for safety. It lists uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain and notes small tin boxes cost a few cents with larger packs from druggists. Also promotes Cuticura Talcum Powder and a joke about stairs and an Alpine club with a piano wire fact.
Newspaper recounts Samuel Goodman a longtime tailor at 5 East Congress Street as two husky burglars threaten him. Goodman, known as Peaceful Sam, bows and pleads, offering to sell woolens before the pair mock him and strike. The scene ends with the old man stunned and trembling.
Corp. Albert G. Young investigates tapping on a window at 5 East Congress. He finds two men, Sam and Shield, with bloodied faces and frightened locals recounting a startling encounter as a “cave man” viciously attacks and bites his captives, prompting police arrival.
A fashion feature highlights taffeta gowns in apricot and apple green, with chiffon overlays and lace chemisette. Describes a chic apricot dress with scalloped chiffon flounces, a baby-waist taffeta style with rose accents, and a green taffeta gown with beaded motifs and a slim bodice.
In a spring preview, georgette remains a favorite for blouses though batiste gains with fine face and tucks. The piece describes several models in georgette and batiste, including peplums, embroidery, French knots, velvet ribbons, and sleeve detailing for tailored and dressy ensembles.
Three men halted James Skerrett at Prydhe Park Y M C A and Edna Robinson. Skerrett lost his watch overcoat and $20 while Miss Robinson lost several kisses and about $13 in cash.
A domestic article lists edible arts and recipes. It quotes Maupassant on taste and offers lamb hash from neck, mock orange marmalade with citrus, tapioca date sponge, and cheese onions on toast with rich white sauce.
The article presents a home recipe roundup with Onions Stuffed With Peanut Butter mixture and Peanut Butter detail, Rice and Mushroom Croquettes, and a Holiday Pumpkin Pie. It includes instructions on ingredients like onions, bread crumbs, peanut butter, paprika, mushrooms, rice, stock, and ginger, plus baking steps.
An article promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood medicine and stomach alterative to clear pimples and improve skin. It claims the vegetable tonic beautifies, increases blood supply, and vanishes eruptions, with tablet or liquid forms and a trial package offer via Buffalo New York.
Doctors recommend Calotab as the first step in treating colds and influenza to activate the liver. One tablet at night purges without nausea or affecting appetite, with the claim that the cold vanishes by morning and the patient feels well. Sold by druggists in sealed packs for thirty five cents with a money back guarantee.
Hundreds of thousands of sufferers report benefits from a single trial package of Bulgarian Blood Ten for stomach, bowels, blood and rheumatic ailments. The ad touts use for constipation headaches loss of appetite sleeplessness and liver kidney troubles and urges steady family supply. It also claims to guard against influenza grippe pneumonia and to take steaming hot with lemon juice.
An old ad copy touts Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for children’s headaches feverishness and tummy troubles. It claims easy use and lasting relief with broad family approval, noting availability everywhere through druggists.
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