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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
3
Miss Myrtle Johnson of 1216 Seventh Street, Muncie Indiana, reports six months of nerve dyspepsia and loss of appetite. After a few Pepgen doses she felt renewed energy, appetite, and weight gain, with restful nights and refreshed mornings. Pepgen is available at leading drug stores.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review laments the decline of English style in modern journalism. It cites Cobbe Coleridge DeQuincey and Hazlitt as examples of literate journalists and condemns the era of steam electricity and cheap postage for promoting terse prose and sloppy grammar.
Badly poisoned gas and kidney trouble era warning signs. Gold Medal Gaariem Oil Capsules are touted as a two hundred year old remedy claimed to ease headaches indigestion insomnia back pain rheumatism and urinary difficulties. Imported from Holland and offered in sealed packs with a money back guarantee.
A Buffalo News item recalls an attempt years ago to require physical and mental fitness for marriage. The plan stalled in committee despite its stated necessity, noted during a streetcar ride on Mont Mica Street where several listeners heard a prospective bridegroom fearfully confess his imminent status.
U S Railroad Administration offers free information to homeseekers about farming prospects. No sales pitch, no money required, only information. Address requests to J L Edwards Manager Agricultural Section Room 70 Washington DC advy.
A humorous exchange about judging people by clothing appears in Pear son's Weekly. Mrs Deacon quips she judges by the wife’s clothes, provoking a light laugh about appearances. The brief cartoonish dialogue reflects social humor of the period.
Shake the antiseptic powder into shoes or a foot bath to ease swollen painful feet. It relieves sweating callous tired aching feet and makes walking more comfortable. Sold everywhere.
A pithy proverb notes the difficulty of supporting a wife in sealskin luxury on a modest muskrat income, reflecting economic and gender role tensions in frugal times.
In Paris leaders of the Red Cross map a postwar program to curb tuberculosis malaria and typhus with dispensaries laboratories and school inspections. The Cannes conference urges open air schools sanatoriums farm colonies and integrated efforts with health services to improve living conditions and prevent disease.
South African mines test blasting by electricity to reduce dust causing phthisis. A European inventor patents a small wheel to help mounting or resting on a bicycle frame. The word magnet traces to Magnesia. Blue diamonds carry luck of death in the Orient. Mrs. Porter found eight cub wolves and killed them. Portable houses may fit sugar mills in Cuba, not for private homes due to Spanish patio houses.
United States Department of Agriculture notes a South Carolina campaign where county agents sprayed extensively to combat the San Jose scale. One week of spraying plus continued efforts through demonstrations in schools and orchards addressed home care. figures include 2,200 trees sprayed and pruning of 800. An orchard owner feared tree loss without equipment as the scale threatened the crop.
The New Jersey experiment station recommends dusting strawberry plants with a dust of one part dry arsenate of lead and five parts powdered sulphur to deter the strawberry weevil. The News Letter notes various home made dusting devices, highlighting Tony Rizatte's hand sifter built from a copper netting covered wire horse muzzle and a 38 foot hickory sapling as a portable powder applicator.
Banding trunks with burlap strips four to eight inches wide removes loose bark. The cloth bands trap codling moth larvae which crawl beneath to form cocoons and should be destroyed by hand every ten days during the season.
The best wash for apple tree borers is a thick coat of paint made from raw linseed oil and pure white lead. Remove soil three to four inches from the base, scrape dirt and loose bark, warm the trunk, then apply a thick uniform coating about a foot above ground.
An advertisement explains genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin must bear the Bayer Cross logo. It urges buyers to obtain an unbroken Bayer package with directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia colds and pain. Tin boxes of 12 tablets are inexpensive at drug stores with larger packages also offered.
A farmer boasts of trapping a tramp amid satire and pride. A referenced dispatch notes Esthenean and Finnish forces claiming Petrograd. An advertisement urges Cuticura for skin care, recommending routine use.
In a witty exchange the Quote cites a water loving fan and a vendor who stores tie cuts in winter and sells in summer, illustrating a playful judgment on unusual safety and seasonal commerce. The dialogue nods to a Boston Evening Transcript style about clever contraptions or ironic trades.
Advertisement notes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic strengthens the body for summer heat. It purifies the blood and builds up the whole system, claiming a strengthening and invigorating effect for both old and young. Price 69 cents.
In Agreement. A critic argues Hamlet may be mad while another remarks he is not pleased. The exchange highlights differing readings of Hamlet's mental state and temperament.
A yeretarian claims his strong health stems from avoiding meat and chewing thoroughly. He asserts personal effort yields good health, while trusting the world to contribute its part.
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