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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
7
An extended reminiscence celebrates Mrs Flannigan and Irish green homefront symbolism during war. It notes neighbors decorating windows with green paper and flowers to honor returning soldiers. It then praises music’s role in wartime morale providing leaders, phonographs, records, and education that empowered soldiers and civilians alike.
Officials estimate the colony yields about 45 pounds of honey with 4 percent moisture. Proportions show most honey sold as comb, with smaller shares as strained and infused varieties. Roughly one third of the output is destined for local markets.
An aged clipping shows Senator Sorghum questioning the value of asking voters about women’s suffrage. He argues a true statesman should support equal rights, challenging the premise of the referendum at this late date.
An exchange recounts a student replacing the lecturer in a Shakespeare session and the class reacting with folded chairs and surprised laughter as the lecturer appears on the other side of the desk.
Local column reports JT saw you dancing with Miss Senes. the guest notes she has not spoken since. London Tit-iBts describes a tense social moment with playful banter.
State fish and game official rebukes misattribution of tree girdling to rabbits. Field mice blamed for over half the damage as editors note. Tar paper or wire around tree bases proposed to curb nibbling. authors urge steady orchardist vigilance.
Admiral Sims in The World's Work explains how subchaser gear detected a submarine sinking and the crew aborting its crew’s life by self-inflicted gunfire. The report notes hours of silent bottom listening until a sharp volley of shots indicated the end.
In a Collier's Weekly reminiscence Melville Ee Store recalls an 1875 exchange between General Benjamin Butler and Samuel J. Randall. Randall mocks Butler's Sunday work limits, and Butler retorts that Randall will join him in the afterlife as a member of the lower house.
The War Department air service conducted uninterrupted patrols over three months totaling 745 flights and 92 605 miles. Six patrol routes covered high value national forest areas and twice daily six planes spanned about 9 000 000 acres. Average nonstop leg was 166 miles and round trip 320 miles.
Former President Taft owns a walking stick carved from a peat stump found by Prof. W S Foster near the Old Man river valley. Geologists dated the stump at about one quarter of a million years, tied to glacial epoch finds. Foster sent the stump to Seattle, where Spokane residents crafted the cane as a gift for Taft.
A dialogue notes accidents vary without a fixed count, describing them as sliding on a scale. The exchange emphasizes uncertainty over precise numbers and outcomes in a whimsical setting.
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes optimism that nations will recover and repurpose weapons into peaceful endeavors. The piece imagines transforming ruined castles into distilleries as part of rebuilding.
A Louisville Courier Journal recollects a man described as a high class slacker with an unclear wartime alibi. The remark contrasts public curiosity with the suspect’s evasive explanation.
Daddy explains to Nancy and Nick the Portuguese Man-of-War as a colony of many little creatures joined together like a large plant. The brightly colored, gas-filled organism floats on the surface while smaller units form the food gathering and feeding network beneath. All parts stay connected, each with a distinct role from marketing to policing and reproduction, creating a unified, beautiful sea life community.
Children in the pig club chicken club and rabbit club learn to handle pets responsibly with hands on practice. Boys and girls participate to gain care basics and outdoor responsibility while enjoying small animal activities.
A Cincinnati inventor’s discovery, Freezone, claims to remove hard and soft corns without pain. The ad promises instant relief after a drop, then lifting the corn, costing only a few cents and available from druggists in a tiny bottle.
A playful exchange shows a barber comparing cuts, a Berlin note on Der Brummer, and a Red Cross laundry claim. A shop assistant touts a dog trough while a customer jokes about literacy and reading habits in London Answers style.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for shaving bathing and shampooing promising double razor efficiency and skin health with no irritation even when shaved twice daily. It frames one soap for all uses and ends with a dated wartime style line about a man making or losing a fortune while two women say goodbye.
An old Bayer aspirin advertisement extols genuine Aspirin as prescribed for nineteen years and produced by Bayer. It emphasizes the Bayer Cross mark on packaging and tablets as a safety feature, notes pricing of small tin boxes and larger packages, and lists common uses from colds to neuralgia.
Dialogue from the Boston Transcript features a mother and child in a tense exchange over time and haste. A joking aside notes a domestic squall may clarify the matrimonial atmosphere.
An advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness is caused by inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy said to work through the blood, with a money back offer and circulars free from EF J Cheney & Co Toledo Chicago. A closing line notes a young man’s wealth versus appearance.
An eclectic mix of ads lists Dr. Berry Co. freckle ointment promotion and mailing free book, plus offers for Hardy Open Field Grown Cabbage and Tomato Plants with mail options. Southern Plant Specialist advertises plants at $11,000 total and postage terms. Real estate and trade offers include 0 acres with a large farm setup in Owensburg Indiana and rental-free properties priced by acre.
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