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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1920
Page
4
New York reports warn that European wasps and Yellow Jackets attack without provocation, hiding in flower petals, ground holes, tree stumps, and fruit. Experts advise safe nest removal from windows and yards, noting dangers of stings and the need for experienced help.
Sroher's Cash Grocery promises fresh eggs butter berries and produce with a money saving angle. Leep Motor Company advertises day and night auto service and tire vulcanizing. Graham Drug Co promotes itself as Jeffersonville's popular drug store with Palm Gardena Cafe offering low cost meals and live music. Hoosier Jeffersonville Meat Market markets top meats with value and popularity.
Gienger & Co offers tools for farming and highlights the Wallis Tractor that purportedly replaces three men and three teams, promising one third more bushels of corn wheat or oats. Jeffersonville's largest supply house advertises its goods alongside Shannons Dairy and W M Young's Jewelry Stars. Rich ads emphasize health benefits and guarantees on jewelry and watch services.
Patronized by the best folk in Jeffersonville the ad proclaims shirts collars and underwear cleaned pressed and cared for with master service. It claims best earth cleaning and announces New York Laundry for first class work for men women and children with every article handled.
A local notices page lists activities for Wednesday through Saturday. The Nota Bene Club and Priscilla Club meet, church socials occur, Rebekah Lodge gathering, and St Pauls services noted. Picnics and Boy Scouts camping are also scheduled at several locations including Louisville and Ohio Falls.
An old ad listing suggests sending laundry to a New York Laundry for regular service at low prices. It promotes a Braun 5 10 and 25 cent store offering home goods with big discounts on kitchenette supplies, Finware, Granite Ware, and Crockery. Bottorff advertises auto tops and upholstery services, promising quality work at reasonable prices.
Fragment discusses varied approaches to life with hints of humor and resilience. It mentions men waiting, others taking action, and a woman who cries, all juxtaposed with references to fate and a path by and by. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or entities.
Broadway producer-star dancer George White asserts dancing can convey a narrative without voice or face. At Liberty Theater he explains the right foot as serious and the left as comic, using both to express any emotion through his pantomime of the feet.
A man claiming to be from Brooklyn and a World War I veteran visited the police station unable to recall his last name or address. He says he remembers his first name as Frank and that he was in France in several Western Front battles, later being shell shocked. He was taken to the Hospital for evaluation. Fatty Arbuckle stars in Back Stage at LeRose Theater Friday and Saturday.
A compilation of local ads and endorsements from Jeffersonville merchants. Doan's Kidney Pills are praised by Allen Moders for kidney relief, plus various merchants promote clothing, shoes, furniture, auto repair, real estate, optics, drugs, sewing machines, electricity, and eateries with generic sales pitches and guarantees.
The Clark County Milling Co. sells Flavo Flour praised for lightest white bread and is favored in Jeffersonville homes. Gilespie & Son advertise plumbing installations and sanitary bath upgrades. B Doolittle Drug Store touts perfumes and toiletries. The Federal System of Bakeries promotes ready bread to save housework.
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