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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
16
An old ad notes Boeckee's Syrup as a longtime remedy for coughs bronchitis and lung troubles. It claims influenza deaths exceed wartime toll and promotes use in American homes worldwide with promises of restful nights and easy morning expectoration. The closing line adds a moral proverb.
Dr Carter's K and B Tea is advertised as a purely vegetable home brew to ease liver and bowel issues. A small package lasts long and regular use is claimed to prevent bilious attacks headaches and sallow skin, with benefits for children and adults.
A United States Department of Agriculture guide urges farmers to use simple direct advertising beyond big displays. It covers bulletin boards, neat farm lettering, printed letterheads, wrappers, gummed labels, and parcel post ads to reach motorists and distant customers, with examples for eggs butter vegetables and meats.
A rural business note urges farmers to paint and letter their trucks with farm names and products to draw attention in town. An example cites a dairy farmer who built a large retail trade by branding his farm and using consistent color schemes on all wagons to advertise butter eggs and cheese.
Boys and girls in club work learn to keep accurate day to day accounts for projects such as animal feeding. Records cover cost of feed labor value of member time receipts from sales or end value and profit. The program teaches record keeping skills and offers educational benefit for future farming.
Narcisco Arellano, scion of a prominent Nicaraguan family, forged death by action to obtain 1 million dollar life policies from American and Canadian firms. Police traced him to a remote Nicaraguan hermitage where he hid for two years before confessing to Robert L. Barnes, an investigator.
In St. Louis a new fire insurance rate applies to homes with goldfish bowls near windows. Officials say demonstrations showed sun exposure through a goldfish bowl could raise damage risk, prompting higher premiums after four recent tests.
An old advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin as the genuine relief for headaches colds pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It touts Bayer tablets in a handy tin of twelve at a low price and stresses the Bayer name as authentic for nineteen years.
A bowhead whale yields about 15000 dollars from its mouth bone and supplies the bulk of whalebone worth 7500 dollars per pound. The Arctic denizen has no teeth, instead 600 long whalebone serrations act as a sieve in the upper jaw. These 10 to 12 foot slabs hang from gums and trap prey as the whale feeds in pelagic waters.
An odd Baltimore American item notes a speaker declaring a plan to test or apply a mind cure, with questions about what it would target or work on. The fragment hints at a curious or experimental remedy discussion in a city newspaper excerpt.
An advertising column urges readers to seek kidney care and declares Gold Medal Haarlem Capsules provide quick relief from urinary and bladder troubles. It warns to look for the GOLD MEDAL name on every package and notes ineffective products may fail after three packages.
Explanations trace the term foolscap to monopoly grants during Charles II era. Royal arms once appeared on paper, later replaced by the fool’s cap and bells under Cromwell and the Rump, with the name persisting on journal sizes.
The Dub argues a plan is plain as the powder on your nose while The Deb counters with a cold retort. The Buffalo Express notes a misfired exchange as the characters muddle through their dispute.
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