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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1920
Page
3
The Harris party travels toward a new prairie home under Aleck McCrae. They set camp among sleighs, form a three sided court, and share a hearty tent meal with neighbors as winter deepens. The scene captures hope, courage, and the start of a frontier life.
S E Hesh of 423 W Washington street Macomb recounts kidney trouble and backache from bending in the moulding trade and says Doan's Kidney Pills cured him quickly. He urges residents not to experiment with imitators and notes the 60 cent price at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y manufacturers.
Senator Harding spoke to Chicago National Club members from his Marion porch, calling for better team work and adherence to rules. He framed his political creed in baseball terms, saying the umpire is the American people and promising to play by constitutional rules.
Ad promotes Bayer Aspirin tablets asserting genuine Bayer brand, safe for millions, prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It describes an unbroken Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain and notes 12 tablet tins cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists.
Mentho-Sulphur cream soothes irritated skin and eczema with instant relief from itching. A noted skin specialist says it stops itching within moments and, after a few applications, clears eruptions and leaves skin smooth. Sulphur heals by destroying the paresthee causing burning and disfigurement, and small jars are sold at drug stores.
Bailey Baumgardner Bros Colchester advertises the Five Fight Birdsall Clover Huller available for immediate delivery with cash or on terms.
In Quapaw vicinity a denuded church sits miles from settlements where full-blood Quapaw Indians fast in silence from Saturday sunset to Sunday noon around a fire. A feast follows the fast with women serving in a nearby mess house. Chief Quapaw owns vast land and refused $20,000 for city land to keep the tract.
Sam Moore of New York City uses a carpenter’s saw as a musical instrument in a current revue. He grips the saw between his legs and bowing the blade produces soft appealing tones varied by blade curvature. The sounds are described as resembling the human voice and sometimes the Hawaiian ukulele.
The French colonial bulletin describes a new vegetable ivory from the kernel of Borassus ethiopicum, an edible fruit palm native to the upper Senegal Niger region. Kernels seven to eight centimeters long and five wide yield large marquetry tiles, dominos, keys, and buttons, drying makes them very hard and they are already used as building stones for chiefs’ houses with potential use in Dakar cathedral milars.
A pony in a coster's cart sits near a mansion in Piccadilly on a chilly morning as a woman unloads logs. The pony wears a fur coat repurposed as one of the “munition overalls” signifying wartime wealth, while the coatless worker moves wood and the animal appears content.
An Oxonian writer to the London Spectator notes English terms entering Serbian usage. Words like aeroplan budget submarine and tankovi appear in local speech, with some Serbified forms such as sumaren and for dovi. The piece observes war words spreading as international communication grows.
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