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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1914
Page
4
Freight cars run between Indianapolis and Louisville with multiple daily times. Service connects with Seymour and Interurban lines and links with B and O R R and Southern Indiana R R for points east and west. Agents and Official Time Table folders available through John E. Greeley, General Manager.
A bustling retail summary reports price cuts and promotions at General Wood’s commissary with savings on sugar coffee lard cheese and canned goods. They claim large lots captured to maintain prices for a week or more and urge buyers to hurry as stock moves fast.
U S Government promotes Richmond Chemical Extinguishers claimed to kill gasoline at auto and factory sites with district managers earning 500 percent profit Auto free Richmond Chemical Co Desk 921 Wheeling West Virginia Adv.
Job listing from Bearborn Chicago advertising a crew foreman for a magazine distribution project. Requires experience and good references. Compensation offered at $338.
Advertisement seeks a permanent hire to sell trees shrubs roses and berry bushes for Brown Brose Nurseries in Rochester New York.
An advertisement announces a life and accident policy with a $1,000 benefit and $5 weekly cost plus a key registration and identification plan. It promises $1 annual and a $250,000 deposit with the Insurance Department and directs buyers to the Registry Department at 40 Clinton Street, Newark New Jersey.
A man over 30 offers to sell Stock Condition Powder using a horse and buggy in Clark County. The ad lists a salary of 70 dollars per month and provides the address Industrial Building Indianapolis Indiana for contact.
Women can earn 70 percent profit selling guaranteed hosiery to friends neighbors and general wearers in West Philadelphia at International Mills. Make $10 daily with no experience required. For ads dated January 11. end of display.
A notice lists rates including $5 weekly accident policy and $1 annual identifications. A $250000 deposited Insurance Dept. fine proposition is noted. Registry Dept. 40 Clinton St Newark N J. Adv.
Classified page features multiple sales pitches for German Silver watches kitchen utensils and specialty items. Ads promote high daily earnings with commissions and sample mail requests. Also lists chemical company promotions and a medicine advertisement for Dean's Ointment with store listings.
Advertises local salesmen positions offering territory coverage with large institutions. Earnings shown as $3000 yearly. Strong references required. Contact B. D. Emanuel, Anderson Indiana for details.
The notice seeks a high grade calendar and advertising salesman starting January 1915. It promises a permanent position with a liberal contract and requests age selling experience and references. Apply at Terre Haute Advertising Co Terre Haute Ind Adv.
Gore Georgia resident P A Morgan shares his experience with Foley Cathartic Tablets. He says they thoroughly cleanse his system and make him feel like a new man with lightness and freedom. He praises their non gripe, non sicken action and stomach smoothing effect. Sold by Ben Doolittle.
R N Gibson sent by Multnomah County to serve from one to five years for obtaining money by false pretenses was denied entry at the Salem penitentiary after arriving unattended because he forgot his commitment papers. Sheriff Ward had authorized the trip but Gibson had to return to Portland to fetch them.
Loomis Drill Co of Tiffin Ohio promotes blast hole drills touted as greatest cost reducers and successfully used everywhere in mining and construction projects.
An advertisement claims Schiffmann's Concentrated Expectorant is a modern home remedy for coughs colds bronchitis croup and hoarseness. It emphasizes high concentration no narcotics pleasant for children and a money-back guarantee through local druggists, available for sale here.
In Minneapolis a story from The Telephone Review describes Lassie, a pedigreed Scotch collie, as nearly talking over the telephone. The dog eagerly retrieves the receiver to hear 18 year old Margaret Sivmons say she is ready to come home, then accompanies her home after a vocal confirmation.
In Denver Colorado a plain building is guarded as the government prepares to obtain its first public owned radium. The facility processes carnotite ore from Paradox Valley Colorado with tons already loaded for the radium production.
In Philadelphia a fire alarm started by Miss Jean Largeman an 11 year old student at Rebecca Gratz House 121 North Sixth Street a four story dormitory. Her warm feet woke her prompting discovery of flames spreading from a adjoining room triggering a swift orderly exit of 46 girls in night attire before the fire was extinguished with little damage.
A clock in St. Petersburg Russia is described as the most wonderful in the world. It has ninety five faces and shows the time at thirty locations, solar movement, lunar positions, zodiac signs, stellar transits, and dates across Gregorian Salman and Hebrew calendars.
New Orleans police notify Butler authorities that N A Sisson, once an interpreter for Standard Steel Car Company and a local society figure, has been arrested on a charge of passing a forged check for 1000 dollars.
Checks croup instantly and promises safety with Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in the house. It clears thick mucus and phlegm, stops the strangling cough, and aids easy breathing and quiet sleep for coughs colds tickling throat hoarseness and bronchial and la gripe coughs. Contains no opiates.
A short essay or note titled Every user is a friend by Ben Doolittle appears to reflect on digital community and online behavior with a conversational tone. It explores inclusive language and the idea of treating all users as peers within a shared online space.
An old advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a remedy for impure blood and liver issues. It claims the product makes a healthy man a king and an unhealthy man a slave, priced at $1.00 per bottle and sold by all druggists for 35 years.
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