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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
7
A girl spent the day with her grandmother and complained she did not like the house. The ad suggests using Red Cross Ball Blue soap for laundry and mentions how wives and widows discuss their late husbands.
William J Pierce, Minnesota Legion Commander, leads a project to build a national American Legion memorial hospital in Hoch ester Minn. The plan aims to raise 8500000 to erect two wards and establish medical care for ex service members, honoring those maimed in war.
George L. Olea the eccentric mayor of Youngstown says he will call on the American Legion to back up the police and help clean up the city. He explains ex service members are effective in municipal work and plans to deploy them in various departments to restore order and discipline.
A fragmented item reports on American Legion actions including aid to needy soldiers, forestation plans in Herkimer County to honor war service, personnel moves from ex colonel to private in the marine corps, and War Department efforts to permanently reopen the American cemetery at Bonny France. It mentions arm bands found by German civilians and a garbled Nazi phrase heard near Pint Michigan.
A Chicago advertisement invites women and girls to write a four line rhyme about Dr Price’s Baking Powder. Cash prizes total over 300 with top prize 100 and additional 75 80 and 25 prizes. 50 5 prizes for next best rhymes. Entries due May 1 1922. Word usage limited to label words and the printed slip inside the can. Send to Price Baking Powder factory 1000 Independence Blvd Chicago Illinois.
Fragmentary old style lines discuss money, worth, and action. A narrator contrasts idle talk with labor, noting a boy’s view of health as eating when hungry. The piece hints at practical aims over mere talk.
A vintage ad promotes California Fig Syrup as a universal remedy for constipation and illness in children. It claims a teaspoon clears the bowels within hours, promising a healthy, playful child after use and urging mothers to ask druggists for genuine California Fig Syrup.
A fragmentary remark notes how the eternal feminine trope twists when a woman reads a good novel, suggesting irony or challenge to traditional expectations. The line highlights gendered literary perception and the playful tension between reader and text.
A fragmented warning urges buyers to seek authentic Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, noting the Bayer Cross as a mark of genuine product. It touts long usage by physicians, safety validated by millions, and lists common pains including colds headaches toothache neuralgia and general pain. The passage ends with a caution about directions for parents.
A historical Bible study summarizes Joash’s rise from hidden child to king at seven, aided by Jehosheba and Jehoiada. Athaliah’s usurpation ends as Joash is crowned, the temple is cleansed of Baal, and a covenant with the Lord is enacted.
Mrs. Chas. Baker of 21 Spencer Ave Hornell NY writes she was in poor health but after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she now does most of her own work and feels much improved. She recommends the remedy to others and offers permission to publish the testimonial.
A fragmentary item notes a humorous exchange with comic dialect about reading a face as a book and a remark on cover design, reflecting local humor and speech patterns.
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