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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
3
Mrs. Harry Fisher of Nicetown Philadelphia says she suffered displacement and inflammation with pains in her sides and backache. After taking six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained strength, sleeps well, eats well, and can work without trouble.
Mrs Abel Law of Providence Rhode Island says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her displacement bearing down and backache after a long illness. She works in a factory and at home and asks readers to publish her testimonial and share the product with friends.
The Central Law Journal reports a Philadelphia tailor issued a bill to a lawyer he hired to sue a neighbor. The itemized charges include measuring and ordering for one suit four dollars fifty cents, various clerical and material costs, alterations, postings, and services, totaling one hundred dollars and twenty five cents.
An advertisement from Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago promotes Fry Marine Eye Remedy for red eyes pheri water and granulated debris. It claims soothing eye comfort and invites readers to write for more information.
A brief ad and stray dialogue feature a customer irritably inspecting a bean soup and a laundress praising Red Cross Ball Blue detergent. The snippet reads like a vintage grocery and laundry briefs note with promotional language.
Readers note there is no Goodchild range in the Beskids, indicating a misheard or misnamed location. The exchange clarifies geographic confusion without additional context or events.
A married man vanishes and relatives search the river while detectives pursue leads about his supposed lady friend. The case centers on missing person inquiries and lingering questions about relationships and motive.
A New York Mail piece argues ancient Romans and Hebrews used non phonetic shorthand and required multiple amanuenses, contrasting with modern phonetic stenography. It notes widespread phonetics ignorance and suggests teaching phonetics will improve spelling efficiency and reduce waste.
A New York stationery dealer notes sealing wax colors convey messages. White signals a marriage proposal, black means death, violet for sympathy, chocolate for invitations, vermilion for business, ruby for love, green for hope, brown for melancholy, blue for constancy, yellow for jealousy, pink for schoolgirls, gray for friendship from matured ladies.
Egypt faces a locust plague with waves descending on Sharkieh Gizeh Beni Suef and Fayum crops. The interior minister printed a warning urging early morning action and local farmers to burn swarms. The finance ministry offers five piastres per kilogram for locust eggs and agriculture appoints graduates to assist in stamping out the invasion.
At a Broadway lobster palace three youths seat late drink and gamble on ti tat to. The soberest boy wins after seven plays drawing three Xs and earns respect from a gilded opponent who concedes he is the better man before they leave by the revolving doors. The next morning a potential alarm is avoided.
A lively exchange unfolds as two gamblers debate bluffing in a four-flush hold up. The Har designation becomes a heated contest with bravado, ending in quick retorts about weight and skill.
A witty exchange ends with the ice dealer claiming to have found an honest man, but the plumber derides the idea and questions the usefulness of honesty in their trade.
Rolfe Maitland hides his savings for Eunice Copley in a wallet. He confronts deception after Eunice's marriage to Gerald Grant is exposed as a mercenary plot. At his mother's grave they reunite as Eunice explains her father’s wealth came through mine misdealings and legal inquiry continues.
A succinct line suggests a belief that those who shave themselves hear less baseball, framing a quirky rule as a humorous maxim.
An advertisement urges shoppers to buy Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product as the best American made option available in grocers. It emphasizes quality and modest branding without sensational claims.
A prisoner charged with loitering and vagrancy explains his livelihood is making smoked glasses for viewing eclipses. He says his work involves long spells of enforced leisure as he faces the magistrate.
An advert touts a one night treatment for red rough chapped hands using Cuticura soapsuds and ointment. It recommends soaking hands hot, applying ointment, drying, and wearing gloves at night. Offers free samples by mail with 32 pages of the Skin Book from Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
The excited commuter proclaims a radical shift to support the Reds, while a timid passenger protests an avowed anarchist image. The conductor quips that the man is a chicken raiser extolling Rhode Island Reds as the top poultry in seven states.
Mr Jobbins points to Europe as a consolation amid war. Mr Snoozedorf asks what it is, and Jobbins explains wealthier neighbors travel Europe yet cannot top Colorado as a personal experience.
Mrs. Atha Steinauer remarks on the "good old fashioned girl" who smokes cigarets, noting she rolls up sleeves at work while the modern smoker snubs or hides from duty, and adds with a laugh that she may not turn up at all.
A dialogue shows Belle declining to reveal preference between two attentive suitors. She insists on neutrality and avoids taking sides, emphasizing equal treatment and discretion in affection. The exchange highlights social restraint and personal diplomacy.
A humorous exchange notes paying as you go and sympathy for creditors. Miss Weary yawns as she voices a reaction to disliking someone, remarking that the person’s laugh is harder to bear than any single trait.
A reformer questions yearly liquor consumption while a man with a red nose jokes about borrowing a bottle to aid the cause, crossing the street to "help the good work along."
The exchange shows an inventor claiming to create a weapon so deadly war becomes impossible. Miss Cayenne doubly replies that further engines of destruction could reduce populations until battles cannot be conducted.
Pennsylvania nature story recounts Arthur Neefe of Sweden Bradford County setting a trap. A lively fox entered the trap while Neefe was away last week and was sustained by its own group during captivity. Nearby were a gray rabbit a white rabbit four mice and a woodchuck some partly devoured. The fox suffered only a foot loss from the trap and otherwise fared well after continued care from its clan.
A former corporal asks about civil service exams for a park job. The district leader replies informally that a letter from the captain confirming bayonet drill proficiency would suffice to prove qualification.
A man returns home to find his family in a tense scene. The boy hushes him, saying the mother is upstairs in the war zone and has your range, suggesting a hidden, dangerous domestic context within the house.
A lighthearted exchange jokes that a woman might need to remarry before obtaining a divorce. Patrice quips that remarriage is the prerequisite.
The room should contain no upholstered furniture or heavy curtains to deter germs. Walls should be wipeable, with a damp cloth. Maintain 68 to 70 degrees in winter and keep the room cool in summer with good ventilation. Windows should stay open in summer, and air the room two to three times daily in winter.
A weary cyclist asks the distance to Poppleton. the native says ten miles the other way. The cyclist notes a signpost claimed a different direction, and the native admits they reversed the post to fool Zeppelins.
A dialogue notes a doctor missing a dinner due to a late speech by distinguished Professor Jayita. His wife reassures that the speeches will be published, while the dinner cannot be. The exchange centers on publication timing and social obligations.
A landlord is told of two inches of cellar water, contrasted with soldiers in trenches who stand in waist-deep water all day. The cartoonish exchange highlights wartime hardship with dry humor.
The Observer of Events and Things quips that a woman keeps one left hand despite repeated marriage proposals, a witty line reflecting on social expectations and stubborn fate.
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