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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
7
An advertisement touts Bayer named tablets as genuine aspirin proven safe by millions and prescribed for over twenty years. It urges accepting only unbroken Bayer packages with directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Smaller tin boxes of 12 cost a few cents.
Chicago memory expert Dr Alonzo Ethelbert Watkins argues memory can be trained by sculptural or pictorial methods. He suggests picturing a policeman in flames to recall poet Burns and notes audience confusion over whether the picture represents Browning.
Mr. C. B. Loats of Lay Maryland reports chronic nervous spells and heart pressure eased after one box of Eatonic. He had tried four specialists but credits Eatonic with rapid relief, claiming it removes poisons and gases from the body. He urges others to try it, noting a small cost and money-back offer.
A garbled dialogue shows Pastor Brows questioning Itustus about church attendance. The reply includes misread phrases like Weil sal and misheard lines about taking active part and passing the collection. Another character, Brothabh Green, recently returned, adding to the confusion.
AGL advises economy but his wife notes he spends on better cigars for personal pleasure while cutting costs elsewhere. The Boston Transcript quotes the exchange on household finance and frugality.
A local notice confirms Sylvia-Julia’s divorce completion while mentioning Joan as the same case reference.
Knoxville reader Mrs. Pear Hill credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with curing her chronic back pain and fatigue after three years of illness. The letter praises the remedy as a trusted women's medicine and urges others to seek relief.
Autumn fashion notes anticipate brisk sales as manufacturers launch fall suits, skirts, and coats before the season. A featured ensemble shows a straight skirted coat with tasselled front ends, embroidery trends persist, and a versatile scarf collar adds novelty for schoolgoing young women.
Women can earn pin money without home duties when in larger cities, via short hour shop work or home businesses. Options include millinery, waists, foods, jams, canning, direct selling, roadside refreshments, and chauffeuring tours. Success depends on building a customer base and leveraging skills in planning entertainments and events.
A fashion note describes a stylish overblouse designed for limited incomes. Paired with a single skirt, it simulates multiple frock looks. A chic heavy filet mesh version, hip length in jade green, with an oriental influenced neckline forms a straight band from shoulder to shoulder.
An overmiddy crafted from blue crepe de chine showcases an allover white bead embroidery design throughout.
Lesson on David's sins with Bathsheba and Uriah, his cover up by murder, and the subsequent sorrow over Absalom. It highlights idleness, adultery, and pride, then narrates Absalom's revolt, David's flight, and his mourning, ending with a lesson on divine love and forgiveness.
A quotation attributed to Channing emphasizes the greatest man as one who faces internal and external temptations with invincible resolve. It extols bearing heavy burdens cheerfully remaining calm in storms and trusting truth virtue and God unfalteringly.
Quote from Plutarch on learning from errors. The text argues that perfection is impossible, but errors offer wisdom for future decisions and growth.
A columnist surveys hair loss trends and fashion, noting men under forty growing bald earlier and women adopting bobbed hair. It traces bobbing from Russian origins to bohemian New York circles and mentions older women using false bobbed hair as a substitute.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap as boosting razor efficiency while promoting skin purity comfort and health. It claims no mug slimy soap germs waste or irritation even with twice daily shaving and says the soap serves for shaving bathing and shampooing.
A miserly fiancé in a drug store window scene is teased by a girl who hints at a kiss in every candy box. He replies that he will someday have time to look under a box for a kiss, highlighting his frugality and evasive humor.
A newlywed bride laments to her mother about her husband George leaving nightly, while the mother contrasts her own experience noting her husband never goes out, illustrating different marital trials.
The Tarkio Avalanche reports a case where a man posing as a helpful stranger aided Dr. William Cunningham with his touring car only to steal from him. The man tinkered with the car and then rode it up and down the street before disappearing.
A little girl playing trains bumped an old woman who urged an apology. The child retorted that an express train does not stop to say sorry, highlighting a humorous clash of manners and speed.
Nell says she enjoyed the play with a perfectly lovely time and cried through all four acts.
A quip analogizes that if faults appeared on the surface, most people would resemble those with the measles, suggesting public exposure of flaws would be conspicuous and widespread.
An Indianapolis bachelor, after supper with a friend's family, asks a six year old if he will marry or stay single. The boy replies that his mother wants him to amount to something, prompting the bachelor to announce as a candidate for a leap year girl.
A narrator recalls a dinner with friends who kept light housekeeping. While sharing camp memories about using tin knives and forks the host served with such utensils, prompting regret as the narrator realizes too late tin cutlery spoiled the meal. The moment passes as conversation resumes.
In Egypt the color yellowish brown resembling a dead leaf is worn as the emblem of mourning. The phrase describes a cultural practice where a specific hue marks grief.
In a lighthearted betting contest a group of spiritualists raises the table while a lone waiter, who sips tea, secures the clearer victory. The scene blends parlour amusements with courtly wager tones as participants measure odds.
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