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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a safe, overnight remedy for biliousness and constipation. It claims no griping or sickness, contrasting with calomel, salts, or harsh pills, and promises low cost and daily wellbeing.
In Crimson Gulch the town appears calm and orderly as residents, described by Cactus Joe as plain-clothes watchers, keep watch to prevent law violations. The result is a quiet stalemate with everyone on alert.
Green’s August Flower is advertised as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion and cleanses the stomach and alimentary canal. It is touted as a sovereign remedy used worldwide for indigestion nervous dyspepsia sluggish liver and related issues, sold by druggists and dealers everywhere.
A Greencastle Indiana child aged three, living with grandparents, misbehaved and prompted a grandparent to scold. The youngster responded with a humorous plea saying Please and mother, leave your face as God made it.
Scanner text describes Diamond Dye packages with a Direction Book and Color Card to diamond dye over any color. A humorous American Legion Weekly snippet about two buddies on duty ends with a dawn remark, illustrating wartime wit.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a treatment for acute nasal catarrh and recurrent colds. It claims internal action through the blood, promises cures tested with testimonials, and offers a $100 reward for any uncured case.
The 1919 crop reporting effort expanded to include top officials and senators, with over 4 million mail pieces handled by the Division of Crops, up from 8.2 million the previous year. State field agents doubled output, and monthly state crop reports spread widely, increasing correspondence and visibility across federal and state offices.
More than four million pieces of mail handled by the Division of Crop Estimates during the past year. The Bureau issued regular monthly crop reports with acreages, conditions, yields, and prices for states and the United States. It compiled statements on consumption, production, exports, imports, and prices for major agricultural goods.
Field agents conducted surveys on crop fertilizer use and manure application for grain crops in 1918, stock on farms in July 1918, and wheat utilization for the United States Food Administration. Reports include livestock feeding, January 1919 fertilizer inquiries, farm wages, equipment costs, labor availability, and county level acreage yield and production estimates for wheat and corn for the Grain Corporation and Treasury.
Catherine Tibball, who turned 100 at 964 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn, rejects Dr. Royal Copeland's fashion guidance. Her daughter-in-law says the woman and she avoid restrictive dress and cosmetics, noting a century of life without such adornments. Tibball dismisses silk stockings, high heels, tight corsets, and low-neck gowns as harmful to women.
An observer in Chicago describes German advantages in postwar trade with small nations, citing low exchange value, raw-material access, and disciplined industry. He notes Germany can export glass, cutlery, surgical instruments, toys, and more while awaiting American credit and warns of wartime debts affecting Allied economies.
Victoria B C reports a female humpback whale caught at the Kyu Whaling Station. Manager Buck of the Consolidated Whaling Company says in his 20 years of whaling he has never heard of a whale with legs on the exterior.
A mother black bear in a den muses on the arrival of her cubs. She imagines two months of teaching, fearlessness when protecting her young, and a life of sleeping and eating amid the forest, hoping they grow into strong, curious bears.
A brief dialogue shows an elderly woman chiding a boy for swearing. The boy replies he is just learning, and the woman asks if he will hear his father.
A Jimpson Junction farmer remarks that farmers who have spoken up feel the proletariat topic harms them, likening it to a buckeye in one’s pocket and noting rheumatic effects as a metaphor for hardship. The Kans City Star quotes the exchange.
An advertisement claims Pape's Cold Compound relieves a severe cold in hours with two hour doses. It says the first dose clears nasal blockage, stops a runny nose, eases headache and feverishness, and that the product is quick, easy, affordable, and contains no quinine.
Dialogue from a Boston Transcript excerpt shows a woman upset by her fiancé Billy Sands slang. She explains she warned him that her father disliked his phoniness, but he failed to understand and she chose to end the engagement.
A home hair treatment suggesting half pint water with 1 oz Bay Rum a sall box of Barbol? Compound and % oz glycerine. Apply twice weekly to darken gray hair soften harsh hair avoid scalp cooling and stickiness. Drugstores can prepare or mix at home cheaply.
The piece asks how to catalogue civil war narratives and suggests placing them within polite literature. It frames the debate over how to classify war recollections and cultural reflections.
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