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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
5
A reader shares nervousness from family life and seeks Pinkham remedies for relief. A columnist notes home garden backyards should supply vegetables for personal use only, not for neighbors, arguing everyone has equal opportunity to grow produce.
A Cincinnati man claims a compound named freezone can remove corns and calluses with a few drops. The lotion supposedly dries instantly and shrivels the corn without irritation or pain, letting it lift off easily once loosened. A druggist can order small bottles for consumers.
A distorted fragment shows a speaker accusing another of mixed intentions and calling a girl a croquette. The garbled lines hint at romantic tension with insults and muddled dialogue. The source reads like a distorted poem or dialogue, offering little clear context or names.
A fragmented early 20th century ad promotes Cuticura remedies for skin eruptions urging hot baths and ointment followed by mail order offers. The querulous copy hints at social scenes with Mrs Crow and gossip about a husband. The text mentions strawberry marks and resembles patent medicine prose.
Tornadoes struck Kanana, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and southern Illinois causing at least dozens killed, hundreds injured, and millions in property losses. Mattoon and Charleston in Illinois report the heaviest death tolls, with scattered fatalities across multiple towns and farm losses noted.
News reports a Spanish steamship disaster off London with forty eight passengers and crew believed lost. Details are conflicting as the crown crew and rescue efforts are mentioned amid sparse, unclear wireless station notes.
Seward Alaska report on Emile Anderson who fled to avoid jail then endured an 84 day overland trek through Arctic conditions to Naknek, finally surrendering after being sentenced to 80 days for assault with a deadly weapon. Jury clemency led to a light term and the marshal’s writ.
Peter Curry aged 72 claims he has not slept on a mattress for twenty years. He was arrested in a table at 2052 Callowhill street by Policeman Dermody and Special Policeman Hammond of the Ninth district. He nearly froze, was examined by Dr Bugno at the police station, then taken to Philadelphia General Hospital. Dermody said Curry is a well known character and arrested him in a half frozen state at Twenty-ninth and Callowhill streets exactly twenty years earlier.
Wilam Gaughrin, former Northwestern station agent, offered to serve Keayan Hotereon's sentence from one year to life for the robbery. He claimed Fourney tuciesdon Wad helped, and his offer was presented as a gesture within a unclear context.
A fragment from a weekly agricultural newsletter urges thrift and home food preservation. It offers practical recipes for stuffed egg salad, palatable steak, peanut butter spread, rice spoon bread, Hermita cake, and guidance on canning and utilizing surplus vegetables, beans, and fruits to reduce waste and conserve resources.
Dr. Ede Pauly in a New Yorker review frames Hungary as insolvent postwar, citing prewar output of 950 million and postwar needs near 600 million in interest. He argues Magyar reluctance on any war loan and warns of catastrophe even with full tax seizures and agricultural requisitioning. The piece also reports on Joe Finherty’s arrest as the tallest prisoner after an alleged assault near Park Avenue.
A humorous garbled note claims postal rates between the United States and a Danish entity have fallen to a bargain. Mrs Flubdub laments not knowing whom to write to in the West Indies, highlighting miscommunication and confusion in the message.
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