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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1915
Page
4
Blanchard California postmaster C. B. Blanchard credits Foley Kidney Pills with curing his kidney trouble after hospital treatment. He lauds the remedy for relieving backache swollen joints and other kidney related symptoms. Individual testimony from BEN LITTLE backs the ad claims.
An advertisement from the Bible Students Society offers the tract Thy Kingdom Come for thirty five cents, promoting hope for Messiah’s reign and divine healing. The notice cites Helping Hand for Bible Students and lists Bible and Tract Society address at 17 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Recommended for croup coughs colds and hoarseness Foley's Honey and Tar opens air passages soothes inflamed surfaces and aids breathing W C Allen of Siseley Missouri says it helped all four children and he has used it for years praising its cough and croup relief Zen Doolittle endorses the product in an advertisement.
An aggressive advertisement touts GASO-TONIC as a seawater based gasoline alternative with instant profit and guaranteed sales. It credits White Mfg. Ce, Dept and promises carbon elimination along with hourly profit while urging quick action.
Salesmen with ability to get hearing with engineers and purchasing agents invited to join a growing Cleveland Ohio sales team. Territory open to large representatives. Address MAR ADAMS BOX 196 STATION 0 CLEVELAND OHIO for details and inquiries.
Local career note describes salesmen covering a territory with emphasis on commission and earnings. Mentions D Emanuel and Anderess Indiana as related addresses. References require geographic and institutional context from the era.
A Jeffersonville resident Dennis Donovan of 417 W Maple testifies that back pain headaches and dizziness vanished after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He claims a prompt permanent cure and recommends the product priced 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY produces the pills.
A despondent man at a Chicago restaurant is startled by a two year old girl seeking affection. The child hugs him, the cleric and his wife depart, and he decides to return home to his wife and three children after the heartwarming moment sparked by the child. The waitress confirms he has three children and a wife, and he leaves to rejoin his family.
Porto Rico introduces Balsa wood known as goans or corkwood in translation and called floating wood in Martinique. Exhibited at the Missouri Botanical Garden museum in St. Louis with a bulletin describing its properties. Paraffin coating makes it water resistant and positions it to replace cork in some uses.
The article clarifies displacement tonnage used for warships, equal to the water weight displaced. gross tonnage for merchant ships, based on interior capacity. net register tonnage subtracts crew and work spaces. and deadweight tonnage, the safe cargo amount a vessel can carry.
Lieut Walter R Taliaferro of the signal corps aviation school on North Island Cal set an American sustained flight record of 9 hours 48 minutes for pilot alone surpassing the previous 8 53. He flew a military tractor with a 90 horsepower motor covering over 500 miles, while Reinhold Boehm holds the world mark with 24 hours 12 minutes.
David S. Eshelman of Lemoyne Pennsylvania owns a grandfather clock judged by a local jeweler to be about 175 years old based on its works. A watchmaker believes it predates eight day clocks. Eshelman inherited the relic from his grandfather Thomas Hamilton of York County who had obtained it from another York County man.
The article notes a clock held for nearly thirty-five years and by a relative for over fifty years. Eshelman also owns an old fashioned looking glass more than a century old.
Rabbit fur supplants wool felt in Australian hat production with thirty two factories in operation. The fur is deemed superior to merino for this use and millions of rabbit skins are processed each year.
Harry Cline of Gardners Pennsylvania says after 28 years he has invented a simple compressed air engine that can run anything from an automobile to the largest warship and can be easily applied to any mechanism.
A public notice urges residents not to contact the telephone operator out of curiosity. It emphasizes the operator has no more information than the caller and addresses readers in Yansville Indiana regarding proper communication with telecom services.
Oak dining table and six chairs offered in good condition at a cheap price. Lost glasses in a case from Chestnut and Meigs to Interurban Station with reward if returned to 610 E. Chestnut or call 341. Gasoline advertised at 3 cents a gallon from White Mfg. Co. Cincinnati Ohio Dept. 10.16.15.
The regular annual meeting of Citizens Trust Company shareholders in Jeffersonville Indiana is set for Tuesday January 1 1916 at the company office from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon. Directors will be elected for the ensuing year and other business may be transacted. John D Driscoll Secretary December 10 1915. Adv 12.30-31.
Advertisement announces a Christmas Savings Club forming at Citizens Trust Company to help members pay purchases. Join now to access gradual payments and planned savings for holiday spending.
An advertisement from Cincinnati Ohio proclaims gasoline at three cents a gallon and claims the measure will eliminate ten crimes. The brief ad is dated November 13 with no additional context.
An advertisement promises gasoline at 3 cents a gallon and a Dollar an hour profit with guaranteed sales from White Mfg. Co. Cincinnati. It also promotes a poultry book by E. J. Reefer in Kansas City offering free mailing of a scientific poultry guide.
Advertisement offers agents $5 to $7 daily selling new fibre brooms to women. Sample by parcel post for 30 cents. Wynne Broom Co based in Elmira New York runs the ad dated November 16, 1918.
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