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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
7
Washington reports on a National Geographic bulletin detailing the global fight against disease. Virginia’s Richmond County is highlighted for cutting hookworm infection from 82 percent to near zero over thirteen years through a persistent local campaign.
Alfred Benner of The Meadows in Rockland Maine is said to hold a remarkable collection with 161 four leaf clovers this season along with 45 five leaf, 33 six leaf and three seven leaf specimens, highlighting an extraordinary plant record.
Prohibition officers near Parkersburg West Virginia report skunks and polecats used to scent the hills and defeat moonshine raids. Officers Bee and Summers destroyed a distillery and broke up a skunk kennel, with evidence of others using animals to mask brewing operations.
The passage argues that a blood illness alters hemoglobin reducing red blood cells’ ability to resist infection. It claims cure methods are well known and effective, and that rapid recovery motivates communities to pursue better health and sanitation.
A short opinion note argues that yearly additions of one time luxuries to needs drive up the cost of living both directly and indirectly.
The article recounts George Washington’s 1789 stay at 3 Cherry Street in New York City, the first presidential residence, with Mrs. Washington arriving May 17 and finding life dull. It notes the house, Fraunces tavern staff, receptions, and eventual move to Broadway in 1790.
While her husband was away, a Berlin suburb housewife turned on the gas and killed herself. The husband returned, knocked, and burst in pushing the door, causing a short circuit that blew the front door off and wrecked the interior.
William Magee a retired contractor from St. Louis reports Tanlac restored his strength after a bladder illness and bad digestion. He says his appetite returned, sleep improved, and fatigue vanished, and he recommends Tanlac as the best medicine after sixty six years. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
A boastful actor claims he can adopt any dialect. The manager offers the role of a Frenchman born in Japan to a family of Irish descent. The character, raised in Norway by a Spaniard, must speak a broken Spanish yet convince a German family he is Russian.
Advertises Castoria as the famous remedy for infants and children with a 30 year history. Promotes the product as bearing its signature and trusted for generations as a comforting stomach and teething aid.
Reports from Aden indicate a unusually large Arabian coffee crop this year despite political tensions. Consul M. P. Cross notes strong Adenese demand and a likely maintained price as local production cannot meet buyers' needs.
A wry exchange contrasts a young woman who speaks radical politics with her mother. Ai Miss Cayenne quips that a parlor socialist tends to be ineffective in practical, everyday tasks.
Advert buys Cuticura Talcum Powder from the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap and Ointment, advertised as an antiseptic fragrant economical powder for face skin baby and dusting use, claiming it makes other perfumes superfluous.
Le Petit Parisien reports a new publicity method soon used in Paris. Two light, fast planes will fly over the capital releasing thick black smoke to spell names of motor cars face lotions tooth powder and other products.
Brief advertisement text urging shoppers to tell grocer about Red Cross Ball Blue bluing. Claims the purchase yields lasting repaid results and that once tried, it is always used.
A passage from the Ashtabula Star recalls a comic yet charged night where missteps, family interruptions, and a sharp rumor about a cradle robber swirl around a man in a hotel room and an entertainer in front of a wife and her kin.
Bayer aspirin is advertised as tablets with clear directions per package. Unbroken boxes of twelve cost only a few cents. Drug gists offer bottles of 24 and 100. The trade mark belongs to Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
A humorous note from the Louisville Courier Journal describes a tramp in the yard devouring a dog biscuit. Mr Wombat calls his wife Amanda and they decide to share a package of bird seed left after the canary died, illustrating a comic domestic scene.
At the supper table the family debates Hello pronunciation on the phone. Daddy remarks he uses the reverse. Sister and brother claim they know his meaning. Mother and sister smile at the exchange about saying good-by.
Chicago headline notes a physician recommending Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to a new mother, Mrs. Adrith Tomsheck, who credits improved health after three births. The ad touts physicians endorsing the remedy for nervous, run down women with uterine ailments.
A woman with a long lasting throat trouble grows impatient with slow progress and is told by her doctor to rest her throat completely. She protests that she speaks carefully and avoids harsh language. The Philadelphia Ledger record of a clinical warning and patient dispute.
Senator Sorghum responds that oratory remains strong with many great speechmakers, but most prefer to lecture rather than engage in politics.
A fragment includes a line about not fearing a man reaching for his hip pocket versus offering a bottle and taking a shot from a gun, reflecting a newspaper style of streetwise banter and danger.
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