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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1920
Page
3
A jumble of shop notices touts a pie shop selling confections and chocolates, a real estate firm promising insurance and bond services, bicycle parts, a tailor, and an oil lease broker. It mentions a heavy flood tale and a tonics sales pitch with dubious health claims.
The Chinese takin described as a mix of moose yak antelope and goat was exhibited stuffed at the American Museum of Natural History. Mason Mitchell, an American consul in China, notes the unique arrival and display.
The article describes the takin or Chinese buffalo as a rare Caucasian specimen among native crags. It compares its size to a Jersey cow, notes features like hooves, horns, and mixed antelope and bison traits. It recounts its habitat in Sze-Chuan and its agile movement on rocky terrain.
An old court scene in Washington features a citizen asking about seating status and receiving blunt guidance about contempt and appeal. An attendant remarks on manners as the man moves to the corridor and contemplates penalties.
A fragmented excerpt discusses hogs and their traits, comparing them to plows, then shifts to a historical anecdote about Disraeli and Princess Mary. It notes how the statesman avoided cabinet secrets and ends with a dinner menu quip about foreign affairs.
An advertisement touts Hoosier Meat Market in Jeffersonville offering beef pork and mutton with pure lard and savings on every purchase. It also features an optician ad for Will J Morris selling Kryptoks perfect eye glasses and comfort in reading with improved vision.
Allen Barnett markets strict High Class Quality Groceries from a sanitary store. Butter, cheese, fresh eggs, vegetables and berries are touted as pure and sweet. Geo. C. Gogden offers shoe repairs to cut shoe costs with half soles and rubber heels for comfort.
Brevity ad from the Popu lar Drug Store in Jeffersonville touts the best service and lowest prices on perfumes, toilet articles, soaps, face creams, tooth brushes, clothes brushes, combs, and hair brushes. It urges asking for Perfumes with Strength Purity and Fragrance.
Advertisement touts Guenther & Rauth as the exclusive Ford garage offering servicing to extend Ford cars life and cut future repair costs. It pitches frequent inspections, and claims customer savings and satisfactory prices. The nearby Chas H Moser store ad hawks dependable clothing with hats shirts collars ties socks underwear and a one third savings, claiming many Jeffersonville residents know the benefit.
Melvin Smith advertises a large sale of Singer sewing machines noting Singers lead all makes, easy operation, long lifespan, and more Singers on market. He invites customers to learn details and visit for demonstrations. The Auto Sheet Metal Company offers auto body, fender, and radiator repairs in Jeffersonville with high class service and guaranteed work.
An advertisement urges readers to switch to Federal Bread and avoid sweatshop conditions, claiming the brand is used in nine tenths of Jeffersonville homes and encouraging households to keep ovens closed or well stocked.
Voters Belden Furniture Co offers a range of refrigerators described as great ice savers and affordable. The advertisement promises home delivery with full guarantees and highlights hot weather staves for sale.
Ad cites Dr Thomas Eletric Cut as a household remedy for common childhood ailments and minor injuries. It markets a 30¢ product and a 600 unit price, presented in a period style brief.
Characters Giggum Bazoot and Theresa discuss how war news steers household mood. They hide papers to spare the cook, noting her moods swing biscuits from airy to heavy and sour, while they secretly monitor world events by her reactions.
Mrs. Chuddicate Chudicott and Chaddicott discuss a row of old shoes set before the Trimmer residence. They wonder if the shoes are meant for cleaners or a Christmas-like display, and joke about placing hats or a bathing suit on their own tree to help a pobre passerby.
An advertisement promotes the New York Laundry offering first class laundry services for men women and children. It promises careful handling and urges households to send work to a regular business with best work at low prices.
A German paper outlines a registering gage with a balanced arm and roller. It dips under the gage to close an electric circuit and record the fall. The meter reads intensity by count in half a minute, with 1% increments indicating shower strength.
A French writer reports electro plated lace as a new fashion and notes a complete set of ecclesiastical vestments made with plated lace. The article suggests society people consider adopting these plated laces for formal address and attire.
A tale from Dundes Scotland reports a man who placed a note in a farmer's pocket then removed it and swallowed a bank note worth 896 county units. Authorities investigate the odd incident and seek to recover the note.
Ta Mies Paterson is Scotland’s only female factory inspector overseeing all factories employing women. With 140 male inspectors, she travels about 3000 miles annually to supervise workplaces across Scotland.
A playful reflection on Wagner and contemporaries like Spencer Darwin Helmholst and Nietzsche. The piece contrasts grand music theories with the author’s view of music as practice, noting how theorists never fully grasp how music is lived or performed in Gotham.
In a rustic exchange two men reference an old homestead and nearby properties. They mention a villa advertising a physician’s pink prescription and a bungalow described as booming, highlighting a quirky, memory laden moment.
A quirky missive praises virtue of receiving favors and rendering aid. It extols cleverness in besting rivals by collecting benefits, calling this the base essence of the universe. The piece mocks vanity and emphasizes practical generosity as a guiding principle.
A collection of quips on temptation age and chances with puns and satire. The fragment references Eve's apple myth, European ruins, and social misgivings, ending with a playful exchange from Puck about highwaymen and street tricks.
He questions persistence in marriage as she reveals her projected cruelty to test his endurance. The dialogue centers on declarations of inability to live apart and a test of survival.
Reading from a Salt Lake City page includes a juror mix up as twelve jurors sit while one man, Joseph A Braines, is told to be returned to the jury pool. The judge notes no extra seat is needed and dismisses Braines. A separate tale recalls a Paris spy scare and a clever deflection by showing hostess feet to mock accusers.
Swiss Cleaners and Byers proclaims as the leading first class cleaners for men and women in Indiana and Kentucky. It touts best equipped establishment with modern methods, patronized by top homes in Jeffersonville and Louisville, and promises fabrics like new with unsurpassed work and service.
A Los Angeles Board of Health statement argues running water and sewers are the most essential modern sanitation benefit. It asserts they promote cleanliness, health, and comfort at modest cost, enabling even modest farmers to improve their homes. It also warns that house flies and mosquitoes threaten health, and that water access and screens protect against them.
The text notes that epidemics track caravan routes in Asia and that parasites spreading in humans depend on migration. Quarantine rules arise from recognizing travel-linked disease spread, highlighting the link between movement and contagion.
A Japanese ship about to be launched is ceremonially adorned with a large cage hanging from the bow containing a score or more birds. As the prow meets the water the cage side opens, releasing the birds to symbolize the vessel’s entry into its native element with a living crown.
The ad promotes elegant meals and lunches at The Home Restaurant. It highlights big dinners cheaper than home cooking, appetizing suppers, short orders for breakfast, and items like toast coffee eggs oatmeal or cakes, inviting patrons to return and bring friends.
Jeffersonville supplier J Gienger Co promotes the Wallis Tractor as a labor saving tool claiming to do the work of three men and three teams and delivering one third more bushels of corn wheat or oats for farmers seeking tools and machinery at the Reliable Store.
Groher's Cash Grocery advertises trade in a locale with daily fresh eggs and country butter. It touts delicious berries fruits and vegetables, healthful appetizing food, and the store that saves you money.
H. G. Bottorff, manufacturer and builder of the finest auto tops and seat covers. Protects auto seats and upholstery for a neat appearance. Promises best quality, service, and reasonable prices. Ad note references Adv.40.
Patronized by the best in Jeffersonville for shirts colors and widerwear. Mandied in careful canner cleaning pressing and finishing. None better anywhere at any price. It pays to get master cleaning service. Best on earth.
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