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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
7
A Ky woman plagued by stomach and bowel trouble for five months was told by four doctors to give up. After trying Milks Emulsion, she improved rapidly and regained strength. The ad claims the product restored health, aided digestion, and built flesh, promising refunds if unsatisfied.
Fainting and duty issues surface as Soreet reports on the fourth circuit case involving a lapse in duties. The article outlines context and reactions from involved parties and describes procedural steps ahead.
An excerpted domestic scene shows Martha and her husband arguing over adopting a new telephone and other "new fangled" ideas. The husband resists, while Martha and older relatives reminisce about simpler times, revealing tensions over progress and independence in a rural household.
The article warns drivers to adjust charging rates for storage batteries with seasonal changes. It advises limiting current to 10–15 amperes to avoid overheating and damage to plates, regulators, and the generator. Gradual recovery and periodic voltage checks are recommended before summer driving.
Motor Life notes hub caps loosen with wrench force or tight ears. Use a fairly Jeune handled wrench and place a jack under the handle end. A few strokes of the jack will free the stubborn cap.
The text describes Kava, its source from Piper methysticum, and traditional preparation methods. It notes a shift from stone pestle grinding to modern methods, missionaries influencing attitudes, and varied tastes with some preferring stronger preparations. It mentions widespread American adoption and the slow traditional process.
In a brief exchange, Ofr. Cross comments on enthusiasm for gardening while noting the distraction of turning up fishing worms that seem useless to anyone. The dialogue hints at a contest between productive planting and aimless digging.
The speaker returns yearly to the shore to gaze at the long blue roll while a pickpocket notes a gaze at the long green rolls, highlighting a contrast between two observers and their obsessions by the sea.
Town has more than 3862 motor vehicles. The history of the motor truck predates the passenger auto. Between 6000 and 7000 motorcycles are in use in the Netherlands. The British army employed 413 women motor drivers during the war. There are 299135 miles of improved highway in this country. More than 3600000 horses were displaced by motor trucks last year. The largest motorcycle factory is at Springfield Mississippi. Sales of automobiles in British Columbia totaled 6000 cars. Rubber tires on motor trailers are required in Michigan and Wisconsin. Motor truck trains moved between points 1000 miles apart during the war. The first motor vehicle exhibited around the country waits among circus attractions in 1806.
The Scientific American describes a front hub wheel by A W Abbott or TF featuring a floating inner portion within a channel on the rim. The design uses thick lubricant to absorb shocks and a median plate trend with concrete material between blades as a key feature.
The article stresses radiator filling with appropriate alcohol, avoiding high speeds on worn tires, and not using Loap on the body. It notes drivers may clean exteriors while neglecting the engine and highlights attention to the distributor head in the battery system.
The passage details how coughing noises in the carburetor followed by explosions point to a misadjusted auxiliary air valve. It also notes that coughing then stalling the engine suggests water in the gasoline.
The note emphasizes regular steering wheel care and the importance of occasionally turning grease cups. It blends mechanical health advice with practical maintenance tips for vehicle longevity.
A Canadian inventor creates a sun shade for tires used when cars are parked. He warns against running engines in closed spaces due to odorless carbon monoxide and its fatal risk. The note adds rim painting tips suggesting graphite paint over shellac.
Elizabeth Coatsworth writes in Asia Magazine about the Great Wall facing Mongolia. The journey describes desolate landscapes, crowded inns with birds learning to sing, caravans, brigand bodies, and vivid scenes of Mongolian guards, red coats, and yellow hats along a continuous wall gleaming under a blue sky.
Village historian Wilium Swaim of Montgomery says a quart of liquor is entombed in the cornerstone of the Universalist church built in 1837. He notes that liquor was common in the era and preachers drank with others as farmers hauled produce to town.
British wool textile employers offer a private unemployment plan to exempt workers from the national scheme. In the north area about 200000 workers would contribute like the national system plus a tenth from the state. Estimated extra benefits total £501,950.
The Martinique natives fear snakes and locals tell of four English sailors who climbed two 3,000 foot cones and vanished one by one. Froude notes the tale in The English and the West Indies, suggesting the fer de lance snake blamed their disappearance.
A town youth in an auto mobile mechanic training program faced a test to assemble all car parts. One piece missing, he retrieved it from the commanding officer’s car with permission and passed among four of 100 in the class according to the San Francisco Chronicle summary.
The advertisement promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as the true aspirin prescribed by physicians for various pains and illnesses. It notes the Bayer Cross on each tablet and package, lists uses from colds to rheumatism, and mentions small tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger packages sold by druggists.
An advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous tissues and that only a constitutional remedy can cure it. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is said to work through the blood to restore the Eustachian tube, with a $100 offer for any cured case and free circulars from BF J Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio. A stray note mentions a native of Ashanti with a birth-day name.
Plattsburg Camp Manual urges men in training to shake Allen's Foot Ease into their shoes each morning. The antiseptic powder prevents blisters relieves sore swollen feet and eases corns and bunions while helping break in new shoes.
Florida shell mounds across the state are attributed to early inhabitants around the start of the Christian era. They lie buried with herbs and forests, indicating their age, and yield pottery fragments shell and bone tools and bones of deer rabbits alligators and more. The King Philip town mounds near Lake Harney measure up to fifty feet long and broad and about eight feet high.
In a funny moment four year old Catherine gazes at a circus elephant and blurts out to her mother that the animal resembles a fat horse with a tail near its eyes. The remark captures a child’s candid wonder at a remarkable animal.
In Philadelphia Er B Irving recalled his father performing Sardou’s Robespierre. Two ladies debated Robespierre’s killer until one corrected the other. Irving added a note about telling the duchess, who replied with a puzzled laugh and said Poor Shakespeare.
A brief exchange notes Anna’s lovely color and her principle to buy the best of everything. A side remark from Mon taigne about folly and wisdom adds a witty moral about avoiding stupidity.
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