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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1920
Page
3
Jeffersonville residents praise Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain headaches dizziness and urinary troubles. Mrs Lizzie Riley recounts a severe kidney attack followed by a return of symptoms causing near paralysis when bending to pick up shoes and ongoing irregular kidney action with dizziness and pain.
Mrs Riley testimonials praise Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from kidney trouble. She reports immediate benefits after two boxes in 1912 and later confirms continued good health after a year of use in 1919. Ad notes 60c price and Buffalo New York manufacturers.
The Northern Baptists outline an expanded Indian welfare plan under the No World Movement. They cite a survey showing 336000 Indians with only 75000 literate, and fewer than 100000 speaking English, urging new stations among the Navajo in Arizona, work in California, Rocky Boy and Flathead tribes in Montana, and a secondary school in Oklahoma to extend education and church establishment.
The New World Movement of Northern Baptists plans $3.5 million for 118 church buildings and $1 million for 24 educational centers as part of a $100 million campaign from April 25 to May. It also aims to clear debts on 37 churches with $660,000, following wartime pauses. $726,000 had already been distributed to 29 churches for debt clearance and property purchases.
Arthur Long and John Dixon, home from Anderson, rest for three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Noyes of Cleveland visit Mr. and Mrs. Heyn at 720 Meigs Avenue. The Sunday Baseball Club, manager Glenn Burtt, plans an ice cream supper and picnic at McCulloch School House Park next Thursday. Mrs. J Warren Thompson announces engagement of daughter Emma Thompson to Stanley L. Carl now in Battle Creek.
Miss Catherine Firemaster has returned home from Norton Infirmary and is doing well. A new club named the Oity Club will meet with Miss Norie Mull on E Chestnut Street next Friday. Mrs. A. C. Schlosser has been taken to Norton Infirmary for an operation. Jefferson Prather, long time Odd Fellow, is recovering after illness following his 50th anniversary initiation.
Muskegon Michigan resident Mrs G Senoon reports six years of back weakness improved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges women to protect their health and seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Sylvan Massachusetts.
Lieut FE DeFries reports from a trip to Los Angeles Santa Barbara San Francisco San Dieg and Tia Juana He notes beer costs 50 cents at Tia and a drink or whisky view costs 75 cents and then neither is much Also Mrs Jennie Wurfel returns from Indianapolis.
Miss Ethel Hilton spent Thursday with her brother Ivan Hilton at Watson.
Dr. G A Huntley, a Baptist missionary now back from China, says the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society will build strictly rat proof model tenements near Shanghai Baptist College. Each house will feature modern hygienic and sanitary devices to combat disease spreading rats.
Miss Virginia Murphy visited her cousin Miss Nellie Kraft in New Albany Friday. Mrs John Diefenbach visits Mr and Mrs Frank Diefenbach at 316 W Maple. She travels to join her husband in Hampton Virginia. They wed secretly here December 21 by Rev Black. He is a former Jeff boy.
An advertisement from Hazel House in Los Angeles promotes dime and birthdate based truthful readings. It lists multiple advance dates in April and May for trial and paid services, inviting readers to submit contact details to receive results.
A village anecdote recounts two young men with little horsemanship waiting by the roadside after their horse yawned and the bit fell out. Two hours later a passerby finds them still waiting, explaining they hope the horse will yawn again so they can reinsert the bit.
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