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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
3
News notes Miss Maud Craig will arrive from Hanover to visit her sisters Miss Sad Craig and Mrs Ganway Sanmers. She plans to return to Hanover to complete a two year course for high school teaching by August 20.
Immune workers in Illinois and Indiana resume duties per John L. Lewis International President of Mine Workers. The miners’ headquarters statement says most idle men returned and others will be at work within a day or so.
An advertisement for the F. Braun 5, 10 and 25 Cent Store touts savings of 25 to 50 percent on home goods. It highlights a complete line of kitchenette supplies, tinware, granite ware, crockery, lamps and nearly everything needed for the home at bargain prices.
The New York Laundry offers first class laundry service for men women and children. Each article is handled with care and promises best work at lowest prices. They urge busy households to avoid sweatshop kitchen washing and to make it a regular business choice.
Advertises two four room cottages in Howard Park for sale at low price. Provides contact phone 1088 and reference Adv. D 187 with dates August 3 to 7.
The Clark County Milling Co advertises Flavo flour as the finest on the market noting it makes lightest, whitest bread cakes biscuits and rolls. Used in the best homes in Jeffersonville. Always ask for Flavo Flour and patronize Home Industry.
Jeffersonville ad spotlights the Hoosier Meat Market offering beef pork and mutton with purest lard. Emphasizes low prices and wide customer appeal as the busiest place to buy meat.
Dennison reports preparations today to remove the body of JT Frank Hanly former Indiana governor and 1916 prohibition candidate after the automobile he rode in was struck by a freight train six miles east of Dennison near his Indianapolis home. Dr and Mrs Baker were injured in the crash and Baker drove the car in front of the train.
Readable fragment notes an advertisement for Larry Lemon appearing in section 190 C from August 3 to August 7. No additional context or details available.
Mathis Dolfinger of 1141 Yates Street Toledo Ohio a machinist at Baker Brothers Machine Works and Foundry says Tanlac rebuilt his strength after years of illness He describes relief from indigestion stomach cramps chest pains numbness and fatigue and notes his appetite improved His complexion cleared and he returned to work Adv lists Jeffersonville Sellersburg Mattsville and Otte druggists as local sellers.
An Adv23 notice touts Shannon's Dairy offering clarified and pasteurized milk and cream delivered daily to homes. It claims 15 cents per quart, asserting milk provides three times more nourishment than meat or other foods for health.
The Dream Theatre patrons Friday will see Helen Eddy hailed as the best picture of her career as Sen Chee daughter of a San Francisco Chinatown merchant. Faldy appears with Hayakawa, a noted Orient film figure, as Eddy’s daring lover rescues her from a deadly Tong reader.
Wise Thomas stars as a sixteen year old flirt in The Wrapper a Selznick drama at Le Rose yesterday Olive plays a worldly boarding school pupil who courts a mysterious handsome stranger while a school matron and a crook girl complicate the plot Fashionable robes vanish and a town mischief ensues as the mystery clears and the marriage certificate caper is resolved directed by T Hases Hunter formerly of Desert Golds and aided by Props in a comic scene staged on the Colorado Desert set
An illustrated ad listing electrical products and services from The Electric Shop, promising battery supplies and household appliances. The text features playful 1920s style quips and mentions light bulbs and washing machines with a light humorous aside about a mad March hare.
Reed waits in a New York restaurant corner for a crucial telephone update on a tense Wall Street deal. The message could decide fortune or failure as he battles nerves, waiting for partner Jim and a possible break in the negotiations. Grace Donahue's visit ends as the Donahues return home.
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