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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
3
Mise Mr J A Trenor of this place relates his experience using Thedford’s Black-Draught for liver and stomach derangements. He says it works well without causing constipation and leaves a person feeling renewed. He notes its long proven merit and warns against imitations, urging buyers to insist on the genuine product.
The British government, facing losses minting silver coins, plans to change currency fineness from 0.925 to 0.500. Silver prices have risen from under 20 pence per ounce to about 88 pence, altering intrinsic values of shillings. The move would cut precious metal content while maintaining nominal value despite higher metal costs.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It promotes teaspoonful doses and a sworn purity statement. On sale at drug stores with two bottle sizes and a trial offer of ten cents by mail.
A visitor reports a strange scene at an asylum where an inventor allegedly builds escape devices. The attendant explains the inventor’s airborne plan failed, leaving him mad and attempting to lash passengers to a soapbox to sail over walls.
An old advert for Fletcher's Castoria urges mothers to check its signature on every bottle. A barber scene unfolds with a gruff customer bargaining over a shave price as a respite flickers with casual street chatter.
An old advertisement touts the Cuticura Toilet Trio soap ointment and talcum as a complete skin and toilet care set. Fragmentary copy references a demobilized army doctor and a call to use one dose of a remedy to cure a neglected cold.
The Republican convention adopted a rules report widening committee membership to seven men and seven women with a woman vice chair and an assistant secretary, granting women an equal voice in planning campaigns. Opponents to suffrage were disappointed as anti prohibitionists gained no platform leverage. European affairs and Germany's political outlook are reviewed, with Spa conference delays and hopeful signs from England on a return to stability amid postwar tensions.
The state reports cowpea weevils and boll weevil damage to cotton, urging delayed chopping up to ten to fourteen days. no panic, with ongoing updates from W. W. Long and Professor Conradi, as efforts focus on protecting crops amid varying pest pressures.
A Binghamton New York woman reports severe nervous prostration with exhaustion and gloom, saying Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. The ad claims the remedy treats headaches, backache, inflammation and irregularities, urging sufferers to try the product offered by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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