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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
7
Terre Hill PA reader attests to relief from female troubles and aches after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad extols nature based remedy from Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn MA and cites testimonials and wide recognition.
A short humorous exchange features an old man and son chasing snigs with evasive answers. In a separate literary bit, a character jokes about a candlestick on a clock being too forward while another asks about speed. Ignatz muses that Paul Revere and peers lacked motorcycles.
A Jo resident credits her infection relief and clearer complexion to Postum after coffee caused stomach pains headaches and blotchy skin. She cites her mother in law who taught her to brew Postum which replaced coffee and improved health. Her grandmother also benefited after switching to Postum.
Major General James Franklin Bell champions rifles over trench tools saying armies must keep moving. Born 1856 in Shelbyville Kentucky, he rose quickly through West Point 1878, Indian wars, Wounded Knee, captain 1899, chief of staff 1906, major general 1907, and now commands the Second Division at Texas City.
The Countess de Bertier de Sauvigny wife of the French embassy military attaché in Washington arrived last November with her young son Armand and an English nurse. She dislikes housekeeping and does not speak English well yet relies on interpreters. She is not interested in woman suffrage believing it would bore her to extinction, but she loves riding and regards horses as her favorite recreation.
Mrs Poindexter wife of Senator Poindexter of Spokane is active in Washington politics with a broad Western vision. She votes with her husband and maintains a sharp sense of humor and backbone while reading national papers and following debates in the senate gallery.
A London railroad station now offers penny-in-the-slot machines for selling train tickets to accompany friends to the platforms. A playful ad notes the device as an amusing convenience. The page also features quirky jokes and a Red Cross Ball Blue laundry advert praised as better than liquid blue.
Miss Helen Sumner, a statistical expert for the children's bureau and a Washington official on labor conditions for women and children, declares that thrift must be taught from childhood. She contrasts American thrift with European instinct and urges conservation as a necessary national principle rooted in maternal guidance.
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