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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1926
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Dr Drake's Glossco as a time tested remedy for croup and coughs. It claims relief in fifteen minutes without vomiting and urges parents to keep a bottle on hand for children. The copy ends with a light jab at penny-pinching people.
Advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer name on aspirin tablets or packaging to ensure authenticity and safety. It warns imitations may be dangerous and echoes a maxim about hidden wrongdoers.
A Washington National Geographic bulletin reports a South African expedition finding large towns and fertile areas in Bechuanaland protectorate. The region borders Transvaal Rhodesia Angola and Southwest Africa and remains largely unmapped with primitive tribes and a native population over 200000.
A description of Bechuanaland south of the protectorate rate with Francistown as an administrative center. It notes each native chief rules his people, the British crown colony style, Se rowe as chief of the Bamangwato with 20 000 inhabitants, and Lake Maka lakari nearby. Mentions the Cape to Cairo line, telegraph trunks, Pretoria and Johannesburg nearby, Victoria Falls, and mineral deposits of gold silver and coal hindered by harsh conditions and lack of roads.
A New York physician warns that vigorous Charleston dancing can harm health. Dr Harry Gilbert reports risks including heart strain nervous disorders fallen arches and back problems from rapid steps citing four minutes of dancing as comparable to six boxing rounds. The piece notes injuries like broken ankles and abdominal concerns as possible outcomes.
In Redlands California the Methodist Episcopal church at Yucalpa held an eleven hour service reading reciting or singing all hymns from the standard hymn book. A total of 748 hymns were used with Walter Fritts a Redlands high school student reciting 837 hymns. About 100 people attended and each family was assigned ten hymns. Traffic accidents in Tokyo streets are rising per metropolitan police records.
In Pago Pago the American Samoa fono defeated a move to end the death feast, with Governor Henry F. Bryan approving. Chiefs support the long tradition where families provide lavish meals of pigs taro and fruit to honor the dead, even as costs can impoverish extended families and villages.
Mary Lulu Lee of Janesville Wisconsin, seventy one, once a beauty queen in a theater stunt, rode to the poorhouse after outrunning a hundred contestants for the title. A press agent’s promotional stunt spiraled out of control as voters embraced her surprising notoriety.
A vintage culinary piece catalogs codfish preparations and fruit salads. It details codfish recipes such as Souffle Scalloped Codfish and Codfish en Casserole with tomato and pasta, plus a range of fruit salads like Pear Salad Lucerne and Piquant Peach Salad, all paired with simple serving suggestions.
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