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Newspaper
Filer Record
Location
Filer, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle night laxative that clears liver and bowel toxins to relieve foggy brains, headaches, indigestion, and sleeplessness. It claims Cascarets work while you sleep and cost little.
Explanations trace the term fools cap to a royal monopoly on paper under Charles I. The Crown’s arms appeared on paper until Cromwell’s test of the law removed them and replaced with a fool’s cap and bells. The Rump’s dismissal saw the change reversed but some paper still bore fools cap marks in journal sizes.
An ad urges readers to seek a cure for kidney and bladder troubles, claiming Gold Medal Testes In Crusoe brand products can relieve pain quickly. It warns to look for the Gold Medal name on sealed packages and promises money refunds if ineffective. The copy uses sensational questions and melodious quotes to attract attention.
Odd Fellows in Burley plan four new homes while Gooding college seeks a dormitory with about 10000 dollars funding. Twin Falls hosts a Christian Science church edifice and a Rotary club forms in Blackfoot. Local efforts target liquor enforcement, Roosevelt memorial funds, and public works including sewers in Twin Falls and a county courthouse bid rise. A Pocatello baseball club formation and deportation talk by a Boise American Legion post appear amid transit and road safety notes. An Ashton dog team race prep, Wilder exchange permit, and a Kinberly moonshining arrest complete the regional briefing.
In a village encounter between dogs Sport and Rover, Sport recounts lifesaving deeds from youth. He rescued a man and his daughter from a fire, dragged them out, earned a medal, saved a drowning boy, and helped stop runaway horses. He reflects on loyal masters, city and country, and modest pride in his deeds.
A Pershing era chief in Oklahoma City extols the trustworthiness of boys in khaki. He notes civic leaders seeking scouts for war service and asserts that a scout’s worth comes from home life, with the boy’s mother or father saying he is trustworthy. The creed that a scout is trustworthy is the foundation of the movement.
Professor W L Sprence, a returned French front veteran and longtime teacher, becomes scout commissioner for Waycross and Ware County. A respected figure in scouting, he champions organized boyhood to train Southern boys for citizenship, citing his Cumberland mountains upbringing and Peabody and Tennessee education.
Treasury difficulties locate demobilized veterans to keep their war risk insurance valid. Secretary Carter Glass warns many do not return to former addresses or are transient, risking loss of benefits and potential hardship nationwide. Posters will urge government support.
The piece extols the scout movement as a force to restore faith in humanity. It envisions scouts uniting Americans, forging brotherhood and manhood, and transforming the national character through duty, unity, and moral example.
Juvenile probationers in Montclair New Jersey join a boy scout effort. A wheelchair fund supports an eighteen year old in Erie County. In Wayne Pennsylvania scouts raised money to buy a bell for a church. Troop No 4 of Dormont Pennsylvania planted 25 cherry trees for the birds as a good turn.
A scrambled article fragment discusses a full grown bowhead whale worth about $15,000 for its whalebone and teeth. It notes Arctic denizens, the whale’s upper jaw tusks, and the role of whalebone as a sieve mechanism. The text also references boulevards of aquarium plants and a French Academy report on pre modern papers and living organisms.
Fragmentary OCR style note references Kickers and officials, with garbled quotes about events and gender roles. Hard to derive a clear, factual item, names, places, or dates from the readable content.
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