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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
3
A French soldier on a hilltop waits with a large official envelope for the president’s pardon of Flichmann, insisting on timing his delivery for maximum dramatic effect before the firing squad forms. His comrade mocks the delay, but the pardoned act remains theatrical.
Mr. Roxe pledges a new lectern for the church. A neighbor quips about others needing to chip in and hire someone to play the implement, reflecting lighthearted local talk.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pellets as beet for liver and bowels with a laxative dietary aid. It claims one pellet suffices as a cathartic and promotes overall digestive health.
The remark suggests a man who tries to darken his critics to clean his image, but the accusation remains clear and the critique persists.
In a domestic vignette, a girl named Nancy, rebuked by her father, retreats to the garden where a kindly gardener lifts her spirits. She returns to her mother and proclaims Clarke the nicest man she knows, asking why her family cannot marry Clarke.
The ad promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment to treat rashes eczema pimples dandruff and sore hands with immediate relief and possible permanent healing. Free samples by mail with book offer from Boston address. Also notes Red Cross Ball Blue whiteness for clothes and grocer availability.
A terse coastal exchange frames a small maritime mishap. A boat narrator laments an incoming wave arrest, while a companion quips about bailing out, hinting at fragile seafaring patience and practical limits.
Smith wears a new spring hat described as a fresh chesty look. The remark notes his outfit as a bold Easter fashion statement and hints at a fashion forward mood for the season.
Claim says many children become well in 24 hours using Mother Gray’s Powders to relieve cold fever headache stomach troubles teething disorders and worm symptoms. Promotes bowels movement and is appealing to mothers. advertised as used by mothers for 28 years with free sample offered. Le Roy NY address provided.
A deacon cites the beatitude to rebuke a blasphemous remark about rightful land ownership. The reply retorts that the meek may inherit the earth but never seem to possess it, reflecting tensions on property and power.
New York senate approves the Miles bill to create a commission to study health insurance for workers. The panel, to report to the 1917 legislature, includes two senators two assemblymen and four appointees with a $25 000 appropriation.
The text recalls Lindley M. Garrison guiding Newton D. Baker as he took the wartime post. Garrison warned of arduous work and shared a parable about two tough boys challenging a rich boy behind a high fence to illustrate a difficult assignment ahead.
A York state woman shares that coffee harmed her nerves and headaches, while Postum provides a safe warm drink for meals. Her husband also improved after switching, and she credits Postum with a clear conscience about feeding children. The ad promotes Postum Cereal and instant Postum with prices and availability.
A USDA survey of pigeon breeders shows large and small flocks mainly using Homer and Carneaux for squab raising. Average mating age 5.7 months. common grains include wheat and corn with green feed half the time. Profit per pair averages $1.52 yearly with squabs sold at about $3.43 per dozen and 13.1 squabs per pair.
A Brooklyn Eagle essay explains how banks create money by turning customer notes into bank notes. The process uses government bonds as backing, with national and federal reserve banks central to this credit creation, a global banking practice turning credit into usable money.
An agricultural note by N L Harris of Kansas State Agricultural College links leg and liver activity to eye development in chicks. He advises deep litter feeding with oat straw or alfalfa hay and liberal rations that reward hens for foraging. He argues lean hens lay less, as yolk fat begins egg formation and excess fat supports ongoing laying.
The United States department of agriculture warns that interstate shipment of bad eggs may be basis for action under the pure food and drugs act if used for food. Eggs for tanning or technical uses may ship interstate if denatured to be worthless for food.
A splendid mixture for laying hens combines cracked corn wheat and oats in equal parts and should be scattered in the litter.
The remark notes a belief that fat overabundance affects the subject not as a surplus but due to impaired leg and liver function. It presents an opinion attributed to Mr Harris on the body's processing limits and health challenges.
The article notes incubator use must follow manufacturer directions since operating methods differ by machines. In general fill the lamp daily and keep the wick clean. After seven days test eggs, turn them twice and cool daily until day eighteen, then do not open until hatch occurs.
Ducks avoid the home area if feeding and watering occur in a fixed distant location. Placing the feeding station away from the house reduces activity around the dwelling and directs ducks to a designated area.
Dr. George Manghill Olson of Minneapolis reports cases of dermatitis caused by the dye paraphenylendiamin used to color brown or black furs. The neck area is commonly affected, especially when damp, after shaving, or with fur collars near the skin. Black pony coats are highlighted as frequent offenders with detectable red-tinged hair roots.
A Fifth Avenue Red Cross room features a battlefield model crafted from macerated U S currency. Volunteers handle relief packets while crowds glimpse the display through plate glass windows. An onlooker estimated the model required over ten million dollars in shredded money.
A framed placard in a New York City broker’s office quotes Boucicault: plays are not written they are rewritten urging authors to persevere in crafting plays.
A reflective meditation notes death as a new birth and endings as beginnings, describing life as a ceaseless vortex that loops from start to finish and back again, echoing Macmillan.
A terse note ties aggressive framing to a manifesto of social influence as a girl figure becomes central to a mass formation discussion in a stylized historical commentary.
An 1900s style ad touts Grove's Whenever You Need a General Tonic as tasteless and valuable. It highlights quinine and iron, claims liver benefits, malaria drive, blood enrichment, and system-wide build, priced at 50 cents.
A lady seeking rooms worries about a saloon three doors away. The agent argues the proximity offers comfort, implying the husband would be near at home.
Letters from Mrs Mayur Aspacu in North Crandon Wisconsin and Mrs A L McCastrano Lawton Oklahoma and Mrs B M Osnoop Roxbury Massachusetts describe relief from displacement, headaches, irregularities and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They praise its health benefits and recommend it to other women seeking help.
A convicted murderer bristles at a lawyer’s prediction of life versus twenty years, noting as an actuary that twenty years equals seven years more than life imprisonment for his age, leaving him with the worst outcome.
An advertisement urges mothers to examine every Castoria bottle for the signature and notes the product has been in use for over 30 years. It claims Castoria is a safe remedy for infants and children and mentions the Fletcher brand name.
A barber quips about reworking a face while a man in the chair protests gentle not to cut beneath the skin. A didactic aside recalls the Lord’s view of debt to foreign missions. The line suggests doctors often disagree about endings and remedies in mortal concerns.
Dr. Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo announces that his medicine Anuric is a superior uric acid solvent. He claims it relieves inflammation symptoms and rheumatic pains by toning the kidneys, with a suggested method of drinking hot water before meals and taking Anuric tablets.
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