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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
3
Gillespie and Son Master Plumbers install complete plumbing supplies in Jeffersonville homes. The service earns hearty approval from residents, with every progressive home equipped for modern sanitary standards and up to date plumbing.
An advertisement touts Boyce's Sweet Shop as a leading ice cream and candy store offering chocolates creams sodas and appetizing flavors. It invites customers to try the delicious ice cream and return with friends emphasizing enjoying better health.
An advertisement for W. M. Young’s Jewelry Stores touts a 100 percent gold standard, offering rings, pins, charms, watches, clocks, silverware, and cut glass with full guarantees. It promises alarm clocks that will wake you and repair services including watch cleaning and oiling by Mr. Young to keep time.
The Citizens' Drug Store advertises refreshing sodas and ice cream with perfumes, face cream, and toilet articles at money saving prices. It touts a large business and carries every known brand of toilet soaps. A Lost Gold Wresh Rag containing currency and small change offers a liberal reward and a phone contact for June 28 to July 1.
The article describes Seville’s Bpeises dances near the high altar of Seville Cathedral with boys in period costumes and instrumental arrangements, noting the devotional view by saints and a 692 prohibition. It also contrasts Echternach’s spring procession led by Saint Willibrord, drawing crowds for four to five hours despite bans by emperors and kings.
In a New England town two cases stand out where maiden ladies are attended for nearly fifty years by companions who resemble them so closely that the pair are often mistaken for the same person. Their voices on the telephone are indistinguishable, causing frequent misidentifications and humorous confusion.
In New York a three month workhouse term was given to Levy John son. Finger print expert Louis Gottlieb attempted identification but the prisoner had no fingers. Only two wooden leg stumps appeared beneath the trousers, rendering the fingerprint method useless.
Macon Georgia farmer S L Fleetwood of South Macon displays an ear of corn whose kernels are shaped like butter beans and okra. The unusual ear comes from a garden grown with such vegetables.
An advertisement touts Shannon's Dairy clarified and pasteurized milk and cream delivered daily to homes. It claims the cheapest price at 15 cents a quart and asserts milk provides three times more nourishment than meat, urging widespread use of milk, cream and butter for health.
The store offers savings of 25 to 50 percent on all home use items. It features a complete line of kitchenette supplies Tinware Granite Ware Crockery lamps and other household necessities at genuine bargain prices.
A collage of local ads highlights the Electric Shop offering batteries supplies and home appliances, Frank Davis Confectionery and Tee Cream Shop serving ice cream and candies, Chas Peel & Son bicycle repair with Dayton Bicycles, The Chocolate Shop promoting flavors, The Rose Coal Company selling clean coal, and other merchants including a tailor and real estate insurer.
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