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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
2
Bryce Cardigan faces a web of rivals and allies led by Ogilvy and Laguna Grande Lumber in a Northern California railroad fight. Shirley Sumner challenges loyalties as Bryce plots a road project while family and business ties test resolve.
Bryce and partners plot a city council backed temporary franchise to run a railroad across Water Street with Buck Ogilvy coordinating while Pennington resists. Plans hinge on securing the franchise by six o clock Thursday to beat court injunctions and force a crossing by Friday sunrise. Bryce fears Pennington’s legal action but presses ahead with Ogilvy to deliver the deal.
Bryer Cardigan commands a major railroad project while Buck Ogilvy, alert and calculating, schemes to leverage Poundstone’s position. Ogilvy telegraphs Redwood Lumber and seeks a decisive edge as Mayor Poundstone anticipates a high level discussion with Northern California executives.
The text traces Buddhism reaching Japan around 452, its adoption by scholars, Shinto resistance, and the shift to a monotheistic interpretation to reconcile beliefs. It notes Emperor Shomu supporting a Daibutsu statue at Nara, completed after years of work in the seventh century.
A Chinese legend recounts Darma, son of an Indian king, visiting China in 5198 A D. He vows strict asceticism, sleeps despite effort, and after weeping, cuts off his eyelids. The eyelids become two shrubs named chan, from which the tea leaf derived, later reaching the czar in 1639 and London afterward.
A golfer taken to an astronomer to view the moon through a telescope remarks the satellite is fine but full of bunkers. The quote from the Doston Transcript notes the golfer’s single minded focus on golf.
The exchange questions whether the article is truly original or a repeated version. Both speakers imply the piece may have existed before, with one insisting it was authored by someone else. The dialogue hints at concerns over authorship and copy origin.
A humorous dialogue frames Nellie’s refusal to marry the best man, while the question remains whether anyone truly marries the best man at a wedding, provoking light social satire.
The narrator visits a garage for minor repairs and meets the proprietor now serving as a deputy sheriff. The boss arrives, showing a badge, prompting humor about his new authority and pomp. The piece contrasts pride with everyday work.
The Doctor prescribes absolute rest after a bad sprain. Three months of inactivity will pause the Premiere Danseuse, Trennee, who earns three hundred a week and has no savings. A plan to fix the show is discussed for tomorrow night.
Promises fast relief for corns bunions and tender feet with Allen's Foot-Ease powder shaken into shoes or foot baths. Claims 1 600 000 pounds used by the Army and Navy during the war and notes wide sale everywhere.
Capt John Smith of Pocahontas Joeme is identified as a founder of the Virginia colony. In 1614 he explored and mapped the northern coast then called North Virginia and renamed it New England. The charter granted the Pilgrims adopted the name from Smith’s map years earlier.
The article notes that cotton and linen costs doubled due to the war. It suggests extending fabric life by using Red Cross Ball Blue in the laundry. It ends with a grocery dealer reference.
Four year old Ruth watched a gasoline filling station worker remove a cushion and refill the car’s tank. After the cushion was replaced she asked if the vehicle could ride on the car’s stomach, a playful misinterpretation of the car’s dashboard and engine area.
Muskegon Michigan resident Mrs G Schoonfield reports six years of back weakness limiting walking. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength and ability to work. She recommends the medicine to others.
A health notice urges women to protect their health and considers Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a remedy for female ailments. It invites readers to write confidential inquiries to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Mass and receive female staff responses.
An advertisement promotes Hunt's Salve formerly Hunt's Cure as a legitimate, risk free treatment with a long standing money back guarantee backed by pharmacists. It cites a case from BM. Timerlin of Durant Oklahoma and urges trial at 75 cents through a local druggist or mail order.
A scattered column recounts Booth Tarkington’s thoughts on German conduct toward a French officer in Berlin and humorously vents about sleep advice from doctors. It notes Labouchere’s death, a nephew’s accidental flame, and Bill Jones the touring man seeking rest while avoiding dangerous sleeping positions.
The Kansas City Star quotes Senator Blawhaw railing at profiteers day and night from every stump and husting. When asked what he has done, he replies that he has denounced them. He insists his denouncement constitutes action.
A New York based traveling salesman claims to have slept in at least 8,000 beds over about forty years on the road and to have slept well in them all, noting the average person changes beds many times in a lifetime.
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