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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
4
The fragment notes a rate of 5.0 per year and 450 dollars per year paid in advance. It mentions an entry for ylee Star at the Pea Dice as a second-chase matter.
A garbled 19th century style report notes political tensions in Washington with references to debates on fees and possessions. The piece mentions public figures and shifting power dynamics as a discussion unfolds.
A collage of 1920s style classified notices offering sales positions and business schemes. Promises of high commissions or salaries for door to door and catalog selling of paints oils greases and car accessories. Also endorsements of low gasoline prices and medical cure ads appear alongside stock tips and housekeeping items.
Non specific ad offers two positions at Merchants Restaurant 422 Spring Street one in kitchen and one as waiter. Preference for who can sleep at home. Includes vague health and complexion notes and a request to apply in person. Also includes unrelated ads for stocks, a peddler’s device, and other job notices with inconsistent details.
In a market note the ad claims no price increase for Polev Kidney Pills and Foley Kidney Pills. It argues health remedies remain affordable for moderate incomes and promotes relief from back pain, sore muscles, and bladder trouble. Ben Dooltipter signs the advertisement.
Ambitious men sought for sales positions offering monthly earnings from 125 to 300 dollars with advancement and training. Listings note firms in Cleveland Ohio Detroit Michigan and Clark County Indiana with requirements and ad details. Also promotes Foley remedies via mail order slip.
For rent a four room cottage with gas for lighting and fuel and water. Located at 328 Ohio avenue with application at 323 Ohio. Also notices include Triumph Pills ad and Relief pamphlet from National Medical Institute Milwaukee. Lost cuff buttons on Spring street reward offered. Horse and buggy stock powder sales job in Indianapolis. Hills Supply Co seeking sales manager. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for pure blood and digestion.
A magazine excerpt argues that married men achieve more than bachelors, suggesting very few middle-aged single men reach notable success while many married men do. The text asserts a strong productivity and life-success advantage for married men.
The speaker notes that among twenty seven U.S. presidents only one died a bachelor. Nineteen married before thirty, five before forty, and two after forty. Census figures show a national pattern of about forty percent single and sixty percent married, widowed, or divorced.
For regular bowel action and relief of constipation try Don's Regulats. 2c at all stores.
Greensburg Indiana December 28 Mrs Bowl is seriously ill. Daughter Florine a nurse at Robert W Long Hospital in Hanapolis underwent two operations for nasal and throat trouble Tuesday. Another daughter Mrs Hi Brown of Indianapolis ill with diphtheria at the same hospital. Minnie, another daughter, returned Christmas from an operation there. John Boys of 1102 Mielcher avenue Indianapolis fell Sunday and fractured his skull. condition is serious.
Itching bleeding protruding or blind piles have yielded to Deans Ointment. Fifty cents at all stores. Advertisement.
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