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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1920
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey to relieve persistent coughing and colds. It promises rapid early relief and ongoing effectiveness against coughs la grippe bronchitis asthma, with prices 30c 60c and $1.20 and notes availability at all druggists.
Mrs S W Gladwell of Watoga West Virginia testifies she suffered severe headaches backache and fatigue from about age 15. After using Cardui she improved after the first bottle and continued until three bottles made her well and strong. Now married with three children she says she never needed a doctor for female trouble and recommends Cardui to others.
An advertisement urges drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It promotes internal bathing to remove indigestible waste toxins and prevent headaches backache and digestive troubles, claiming many practice it daily.
An article promotes Vicks VapoRub as a preventive and treatment for flu and colds. It describes inhaling vapors, applying on the throat chest and back, and using hot towels for severe cases. It attributes claimed efficacy to camphor menthol eucalyptus and notes rising sales across states.
The death is reported of Mrs. Margaret Dunlap Gibson of England. In 1896 she and her sister Agnes Lewis brought the first leaf of what becomes known as the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus from Mount Sinai. The sisters helped locate the Curetonian manuscript, one of the oldest gospel texts, after copying and photographing the Syrian palimpsest. Mrs. Gibson was widow of Reverend James Young Gibson, translator of Cervantes.
German official agents arrive in Mexico City with George Schmidt named consul general and S Wolfe assigned as commercial attache. They outline a program of commercial activity in the republic.
The Prince of Wales is slated to cruise through the Panama Canal aboard the battleship Renown next April en route to Australia and New Zealand with plans and royal escort details forthcoming.
At Coblenz Germany February 14 the old German army target range near Fort Alexander will be handed to American forces for agricultural training. The project forms part of a broader plan to establish unit schools across Germany with a central Coblenz school. An educational board led by Colonel F S Young, Lieutenant Colonel R W Holderness and Major C Haight supervises the program.
Gilmer Brothers opened today with strong demand for meat bar gains advertised in The Enterprise. Fatback at 23 cents a pound drew crowds as manager Blackwelder and six assistants worked through the morning rush. Oliver says the grocery department will grow busier with Amos store expansion and more room for discounted meat and ham and bacon prices.
Mrs Queenie Nazarro wins possession of her sixteen year old adopted son Nat Nazarro Jr as alimony in a Chicago divorce suit against Nat Nazarro Sr, a vaudeville performer earning $1500 weekly. The decision is noted as one of the most unusual alimony arrangements in the era.
Advert says Aspironal is a new elixir endorsed by European and American surgeons to cut short colds and prevent complications. Druggists refund price if relief does not come in two minutes. claimed fastest acting remedy with easy two teaspoonful dose and water. Warning of widespread drugstore availability and family use.
Wagnerian opera returns to the Costanzi theater in Rome with Die Walkure as the second offering, following Mascaghi Iris. The crowd was large and no protest arose as Rome press praised the production. Volumes note Wagner’s reemergence alongside Austrian refugee children arriving in Italy.
In Geneva on February 14 large quantities of Bolshevist pamphlets advocating revolution were seized by Swiss authorities to prevent spread to neighboring countries.
A preliminary count shows British Columbia logged about 700 million feet of lumber cut last year. The figure reflects early estimates of output across the province's mills and forests.
An old doctor’s prescription titled Number 40 For the Blood claims to treat blood poison and related ailments. It is produced by J. C. Mendenhall, a 40 year veteran druggist from Evansville Indiana, and sold by J. A. Hart Drug Co.
The Gilmer Brothers advertisements caused a frenzy when a printer error showed pink salmon at three for 23 cents. Shoppers rushed to the Enterprise display ads Friday afternoon, hoping for the bargain despite the corrected copy.
Eight or nine cases of a new illness labeled encephalitis lethargica puzzle London hospital doctors. Symptoms resemble African sleeping sickness but the parasite previously linked to Congo cases has not been found in patients. A medical committee investigates while officials caution against alarm.
Liverpool February reveals Cunard line plans to name upcoming intermediate class liners after ships lost in war. Four 600 footers Franconia Laeconia Scythia Samaria. Tiburnia first 550 foot ship. seven 520 foot vessels Alaunia Ardania Aurania Ausonia Ascuria Aibnia Antonia. US canning industry packed 100 million wooden boxes in last year.
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