15 May 1931
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1931
Page
1
An advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin as rapid relief for headaches and systemic pains. It urges two tablets to head off headaches, lists various pains including neuralgia and rheumatism, claims heart safety, and promotes pocket tins and bottles from druggists.
Burns Library at Donseore Parish in Ellisland Scotland, founded in 1790 by poet Robert Burns, has closed. Once aided by Carnegie trustees, the rural library district transfers its books to local recreation rooms as membership waned. Burns served as first librarian and subscription was required.
An advertisement urges readers to try Tanlac for liver stomach and nerve comfort promising quick energy return and renewed vigor. It asserts a money back guarantee and claims millions have benefited from the tonic.
An East Boothbay resident plans to prevent future crashes by securing a strong manila rope to a nearby tree and attaching it to the car’s rear axle. He then drives into the garage, confident the rope will stop the vehicle in the correct spot.
An advertorial testimonial claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cured recurring winter bronchial coughs for A Wagner of Lincoln Street. The ad urges readers to mail for free medical advice and notes packages include four symptom blanks. The piece also mentions a North American gold output comparison noting Canada catching up.
For morning sickness women are advised to sip Phillips Milk of Magnesia with crushed ice. The remedy eases stomach upset and vomiting, relieves heartburn and gas, provides mild laxative action, and can be used as a mouth wash to help prevent tooth decay during expectancy.
A 1921 Western Newspaper Union report describes devices claimed to project speech into a chosen listener's brain by pointing a finger, using an electrostatic projection method. Demonstrations by Sergius P. Grace show selective hearing in crowds, with further gadgets for telephone and radio systems, including secret radio speech scrambling and unscrambling for wartime use.
Four million pieces of wood will be used by Jean Louis d'Esque, a carpenter aboard the American motor ship West Cusseta, to assemble a screen of 200 wooden butterflies. The collection is to be presented to the ex-maharaja of Indore in India. D'Esque estimates a two year labor period. His cabin already holds numerous multicolored butterflies built from hundreds of wood types. A Tanitian butterfly, among his finest works, uses 1,200 wood pieces.
The English royal barge built in 1689 for King William III has been placed in the new National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. It has been used by nearly every English sovereign since, with its last appearance in the Thames pageant of 1918.
Cherie Nicholas reports that organdie headlines late spring and summer fashion with white ensembles, metal embroidery on organdie over taffeta, and hat frock combos. Designers showcase white coats, white crepe jackets, and lace slips, pairing pale greens and soft pinks with bright accents for a tour through debutante and debut fashion.
Rural households gain pressure gas appliances enabling lighting heating and cooking from un treated motor fuel. Portable stoves lamps heaters irons and water heaters provide blue flame heat with no installation or piping. Modern farm life eases chores improves light and cooking efficiency for housewives and families.
Wicks describes relief from kitchen chores with no coats of ash or wood to litter, no burning ashes to carry out, and no heavy sad-irons to haul between stove and ironing board, calling it real farm relief for the women.
Cotlier's Weekly notes the vast difference between a mother kangaroo and her joeys. A female stands about four feet tall and weighs around 200 pounds, while newborn joeys are one inch long and weigh under a mouse.
The Washington Star quotes Bi Ho from Chinatown praising politeness. He states a smile and bow can lighten tasks and sometimes yield surprisingly tangible rewards.
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