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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1920
Page
4
An advertisement extols Milks Emulsion as a life restoring food and medicine after severe pneumonia. The client recalls chest pain and weakness but reports regained strength, appetite, and sleep, claiming it rebuilds blood and tissues. The notice offers a six bottle trial with refund if unsatisfied.
A salesman presents a new combined footstool and phonograph. A customer replying she will buy it cites persistent feet asleep as the reason, saying the device will wake them up. Boston Transcript style dialogue.
An advertisement proclaims a $100 reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces and improvement of general health. Testimonials and free literature are offered by J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
A humorous dialogue where a husband notes giving twenty dollars and the wife explains she spent it on a hat. He complains it was for food, she quips she can feed part of herself by feasting her eyes on the hat. The exchange highlights domestic money misallocation with wit.
An advertisement urges using Cuticura Ointment on rising and retiring, then washing off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It promises improvement for poor complexions dandruff itching and red rough hands in a brief consumer pitch.
A wartime recollection notes a blunt admission where a serviceman admits insulting a captain and demanding a raise, describing it as his worst army mistake. The exchange highlights tension between a subordinate and a superior, set in a military workplace.
Mrs. George Flenner of Elkhart Indiana recalls suffering during girlhood with weak nerves and health issues. She credits Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery with curing her womanly troubles and a facial breakout, praising the medicines highly.
A Mississauga era testimonial from Mrs W M Woessner of 800 Grove indicates relief after using Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for nervousness and feminine troubles. The statement claims full cure and lasting relief after prior failed remedies from a Decatur physician.
Mrs. Nora Barnes of Fort Wayne credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with her swift recovery after childbirth. She describes a healthy two year old son and notes her own health greatly improved since taking the medicine.
A survey of early 20th century events shows President Wilson asserting troops on the Rhine as under U S command, Bolshevik repulses reported to Polish legation in Washington, census data showing declines in Michigan and other regions, and wage talks between railroads and unions breaking off. Other items include Wilson’s summer plans, commerce attaché appointments, and Senate air mail route approval.
About 2 800 workers including motormen and conductors of the Cleveland Railway Company vote to demand 00 cents an hour eight hour day and time and half for overtime. A mass labor action follows across the region with wage and hours disputes reflected in transport service.
Miss Minnie Webb Curtis former national president of the W C T U died in Dallas Texas Elmer Apperson of Kokomo Indiana former president of the Apperson Motorcar company died of apoplexy after a Los Angeles auto race Herbert Hoover announced at Chicago he would accept the Republican nomination if the issues require it The Georgia presidential primary withdrew President Wilsons name at Atlanta Vienna receives a record eighty carloads Red Cross supplies for Vienna Nikolayevsk Siberia battle losses reported between Japanese and Russian Bolshevik forces New Italian settlement on the Adriatic issue Paris hosts May Day strike plan by labor confederation near Nikolaevsk Siberia Tokyo reports heavy losses among nearby Japanese troops
An advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer Cross on genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin to ensure authenticity. It promotes relief from colds, headaches, toothaches, earaches, neuralgia, rheumatism and more, noting handy tin boxes and larger packages sold by druggists.
A fat plumber recalls watching a film with someone, then leaving when a plot snare for a wife arose. He avoids further involvement, fearing an impending domestic quarrel between a man and his wife and chooses not to stay. The exchange hints at looming conflict and personal risk.
A new one piece shell gun demonstrated in Popular Mechanics trials shoots a lifeline over wreckage. Water packed shot tests show advantage over muzzle loaders. Elevation can be set to 30 45 60 or 80 degrees with 1700 feet range. One man carries the barrel and the carriage has wheels. Firing is by lanyard and the lifeline unwinds from the reel without kinking.
India hosts about 1,000,000 people in silk production. Mulberry caterpillars and moths are fully domesticated across the industry.
A factory seeks a stock chaser in purchasing. Many applicants responded, one claiming qualification by stating he has been a farmer all his life. Also an ad for Red Cross Ball Blue promises fresh safe laundry results for baby clothes at 5c a package.
A discussion cites deer behavior where fighting antlers rattle, attracting rivals and enabling deception to win mates. It argues deer show reasoning beyond instinct and wonders what discoveries a monkey colony off Florida might yield about intellect.
A humorous exchange features a ready made philosopher and Mr Chuggins arguing about clothes. He emerges from under a car and muses that donning fur outerwear and a cap might make a machine treat him like a chauffeur.
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