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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
7
An old advertisement pitches Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe liver remedy that avoids calomels side effects. It claims calomel injures bones and sickens users, while Liver Tone, 100 percent vegetable, cleanses the bowels and restores energy by morning with a money back guarantee for the entire family.
Philadelphia Record reports improved sturgeon catches and large fish in the Delaware river and bay. Some fish exceed 200 pounds, with a few around 800 pounds. Roe yields high prices, buyers note strong caviar demand amid war cutoffs. One fisherman earned 329 dollars for a 300 pound catch including roe.
A reference notes another break in China with strained discussions about wages and effects on workers. The excerpt hints at economic or political tension impacting daily life and labor.
Advertisement claims Wright's Indian Vegetable Pilla eases constipation by regulating stomach and bowels with no griping. The copy touts it as a simple remedy amid numerous anecdotal tall stories and generic health claims.
A quoted exchange questions whether a man was truly hungry. The speaker notes the man had not eaten for three days and refused breakfast unless he split a cord of wood, suggesting real hunger would push him to earn his meal.
An ad promises removal of freckles with ethine double strength ointment and money back guarantees. A humorous anecdote from an Indianapolis News item follows, about a boy convincing his mother he had a toothache to avoid a dentist chair.
Johnny, a student from Muncie, surprised his mother and teachers by finishing first in class after a year spent less on study and more on mischief. He boasted of leading the class, while the teacher noted the upside down behavior and distraction from schoolwork.
Canada reports a 1916 trade with Britain totaling 821,680,408 dollars. The figure highlights wartime commerce levels between the two dominions during the period.
At Winthrop College the 98 club girls received certificates after two weeks of domestic and economic life studies. Demonstrators and eight assistants guided projects including canning and poultry work, with youth from six counties enhancing the program.
Gen Wood says more training camps will be placed in the South eastern army department for drafts. The War Department expects Central and near Northwestern troops may train there as cheaply as at the Mexican border, reducing travel and fitness costs before embarka tion.
Hebe Smith a negro accidentally drowned while swimming with another man in the Saluda river near Dreher’s ferry. The body was recovered. The Young Men’s Christian Association sent army tents stored in the city association to Charleston and Port Royal. A boll weevil discussion is set for July 21 in Summer with Dr J R Boling of Columbia and Dr R G Hamilton of Bookman. Heurt enants in the Columbia Red Cross ambulance corps No 26 left to join a company in Allentown Pa for training.
W I Sanders of Kansas State Agricultural College argues trucks require hard roads for efficiency. He notes trucks save time and labor on farms, having been used to move supplies in U.S. operations and wartime food transport, and that field layouts should optimize power use and reduce farm labor.
The text argues that spending on road construction with proper alignment, grading, and drainage yields the most lasting public benefit, surpassing courthouses which require remodeling after about 25 years. A well-planned road, laid out by a competent engineer, serves the public forever and should be advanced as the country grows.
The first national forest road under federal aid will be built in the Apache National Forest Arizona. It will run about 71 miles and cost roughly 342500 with costs split equally by government and local communities. The road aims to unlock industrial resources and provide a major recreation area for tourism. It notes the automobile’s persistent influence on road improvement turning bad roads into good and good roads into better.
The average expense for repair and maintenance across 7 800 miles of highway in Connecticut Massachusetts New York New Jersey and Rhode Island in 1912 was about 800 dollars per mile.
A government off icial remarks on war indemnity and annexation while a banker's office scene plays out. The dialogue features a salesman selling items from a piano to a filing cabinet as folly and satire echo wartime pretensions. An aside questions safety of a household in military unrest and a remark on eye care products ends the piece.
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