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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
4
Jeffersonville's largest supply house Gienger & Co promotes the Wallis Tractor as a labor saving machine. The ad touts tractors doing the work of three men and three teams and claims one third more bushels of corn wheat or oats.
Clarified and pasteurized milk and cream delivered daily to your home. Est price per quart at 15c, claim three times more nourishment than meat. Also promotes butter and health benefits with dairy products.
Patronized by the best lim es in Jeffersonville. Shirts colors and underwear pressed carefully. None better anywhere at any price. I pass to get master cleaning service. Lest on earth.
An old advertisement urges households to use The New York Laundry for first class laundry work for men women and children. It stresses careful handling and warns against turning the kitchen into a sweat shop while encouraging husbands to send laundry to this regular business at low prices.
Local advertisement promotes Braun 5 10 and 2c Store offering substantial savings of 25 to 50 percent on home essentials. It highlights a complete line of kitchenette supplies including tinware granite ware crockery lamps and other items for the home at bargain prices.
H. G. Bottorff, Manufacturer and Builder of top quality auto tops and seat covers. Protects upholstery and adds neat appearance. Promotes best quality, service, reasonable prices. Adv.40.
Swiss Cleaners and Dyers claims to be the leading First Class cleaners for men and women in Indiana or Kentucky. It touts a large, well equipped shop patronized by top Jeffersonville and Louisville households with modern methods and fabrics like silks and satins made to look new.
An old advertisement touts Boyce's Sweet Shop and Lead ing First Gass Ice Cream and Candy Store offering chocolates creams and sodas. It urges try and you will come again and bring friends praising delicious ice cream and health benefits. Doan's Ointment ad appears with familiar remedies.
Philadelphia report recounts the Molly Maguires terror in Pennsylvania coal regions. Detective James McParland infiltrated the gang, exposing leaders and extents of murder and conspiracy, leading to broad arrests and the organization’s collapse.
A Puck dialogue fragment questions double standards in gender roles and suffrage. It contrasts women who demand men support them with men who claim financial responsibility but fail to share control. The exchange includes a husband and wife banter about a pearl necklace and public image.
The joke contrasts a woman’s stress with a married man’s punchline noting that the coat is the key. The exchange plays on social roles and expectations with a light humorous twist.
Mrs Harduppe Jobo voices concern over a burglar while Mr Harduppe expresses sympathy noting his own experience with hard labor and poverty. The dialogue centers on understanding the thief's plight rather than confrontation.
A clipped notice from June 1926 requests a dime and a birthdate to enable a truthful reliable trial reading. It lists Hazel House, Box 215, Los Angeles, California, with an advance date of July 3 and the year 19.
Farmers plant sunflowers near yards with four foot spacing to promote growth and larger heads. Keep soil mellow as plants mature so hens shade and dust bathe for lice control. Harvest by cutting heads near stalks and let hens shell the seed. typical yields reach about twenty bushels per acre.
The text describes using sulphur smoke to kill vermin in a poultry house. It advises timing to avoid midday heat, sealing the house after applying coal oil to roasts and nesting boxes, and burning sulphur in an open kettle to emit fumes. After several hours the house should be aired before roasting time.
A reflective note contrasts the cow's pace with human time as the pasture and barn lot become quiet spaces. It implies patience in farming routines and the current restraint from pursuing hurried activity.
A breathless scene shows a suitor and a rival duel looming over a woman. They propose a poker game to decide wealth and marriage, threatening death or union as stakes. The improvised ending suggests a sly compromise to allow marriage.
A Birmingham man walks with an old friend revisiting his homeland after years. The visitor asks about long ago acquaintances and mentions Aunt Mrs Blank. The friend reveals she died last year and explains, that is why she was buried.
A teacher records a conversation where Johnnie confesses being surprised by his ability to defeat Willie Jones and acknowledges their fight. The dialogue reveals expectations and self doubt about winning.
A young mother recently back from India hires a nurse for her crying baby. The nurse confesses inability to soothe the infant as the child continues to cry relentlessly, leaving the mother to ponder a solution in a tense moment.
An old classified notice seeks wealthy, attractive widows or widowers willing to wed. The ad lists contact at 221612 Temple St Los Angeles Cal and specifies multiple weekly deadlines PD June 26 July 3 10 17.
A rural creed emphasizing permanent agriculture with high yields for corn and wheat, soil richness, weed control, and the value of farm families and communities. It urges support for farm women, country schools, and churches, plus pride in open country and neighborly spirit.
A fragment notes pride in a man whose son attends a college of agriculture and invites others to send their sons as well. The terse line hints at parental pride and encouragement for agricultural education.
A practical feeding guide for young, weaned pigs. It details a slop style ration of corn meal oats shorts and meal, with skim milk when available, plus optional tankage or oilmeal substitutions. It notes separate or combined feeding with mothers, palatability improvements, pasture feeding, and a shift toward corn in ear form with tankage replacing oilmeal as pigs grow.
A Houston Post quip notes a husband claiming he delivered a lecture on economy to his wife. He boasts the words will influence him to reuse last winter's suit for the upcoming season.
A quotelike note from Puck urges young readers to pursue early fame. It argues that youth offers better wind and lighter attire to climb social ladders, while cautioning against mockery from others as ambition grows.
The reader requests a method to make bread rise. A floorwalker directs to use the alarm clocks third counter to the right for timing or attention.
In a sharp exchange Miss Gaddie asks if her treatment will ruin their friendship. Miss Kandor counters that she aimed to turn their relationship into a rivalry, not friendship, with a cool demand for stronger enmity.
Expert Leon Cammen predicts ocean air routes will pay for themselves with mail first, then commerce. He cites British experience and notes $1 per ounce rate could yield $18,000 per trip for a 1000 pound plane. Newspapers and patent documents, drawings, and bids would move by air.
A London linguist analyzes the word Bolshevik tracing it to bolshe meaning bigger and the suffix vik denoting agent. He contrasts Bolshevik with Menshevik and notes Bolshevism as a later oddity equating to bigger er ism.
John Muir recounts Col D C Collier meeting a boy beside a corral sign saying For Sail. The lad answers that the ranch will fail when someone can raise the wind, leaving Collier strangely enlightened on the mountain road in San Diego California.
Job listing seeks a camp cook for a 10 day July session. Apply at Homer M. Frank Scoutmaster Citizens Trust Co Coots Bros and Gill near the Clark County State Bank. Real estate ad follows offering city and farm property in Indiana and Kentucky with investment appeal.
Pack wagon horse and harness incubator brooder daisy churn dome separator plus fine work harness lawn mower and a fox terrier with pups listed by G M Schwab of Sellersburg Cumberland contact phone 46.
Carrier boys report difficulty implementing the new card system and subscribers are urged to cooperate to ensure daily newspaper delivery. If papers are missed call 460 for prompt adjustment. Also notes two sale items and a visit: Ford motor and motor boat equipment for sale and a cottage for sale at 415 West Maple Street. July 6 8.
Pin with twisted gold and coral went missing between Interurban Station and Swartz Dry Goods Store. See T Jacobs for AdvD151P June 0 July 2.
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