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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1920
Page
3
Ad claims women with pimples and blotches should seek Golden Medical Discovery a blood medicine and stomach alterative. It promises clearer skin by improving blood supply and circulation and offers tablets or liquid with a 10 cent trial by Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel Buffalo New York.
G C Johnson writes Eatonic stops heartburn and helps nervous spells. The tablet after meals purges excess acid and gases, keeping digestive organs in natural order. A big box costs only a trifle with druggist's guarantee.
President elect Harding’s vacation trip follows a landslide election that gives Republicans control of Congress and a sweeping popular mandate. The article notes gains in the North and West, party realignments, and potential cabinet names while analyzing the Wilson League of Nations issue and regional reactions abroad.
London papers view the decisive rejection of Wilson policies with the Times calling the result a warning to Bolshevists and extremists. Paris newspapers unanimously deem Harding's victory a setback for the League of Nations as created by the Wilson covenant, echoed by Echo de Paris.
In Cuba the March 2 election chose Dr Alfredo Zayas over Jose Miguel Gomez. Scotland also held a prohibition ballot with 36 towns voting to keep liquor sale, ten dry, and one for license reduction.
Prince Paul has not accepted the throne and Prince Charles of Flanders is discussed as a candidate. Premier Venizelos says Constantine’s return could be an election issue. France reportedly would block Constantine’s restoration if possible.
The miners' executive announced the strike over under government terms and ordered workers to return. The rank and file had rejected the terms by 8,459 votes, short of the two thirds required to sustain the strike, leading leaders to halt actions.
The Irish, Labor Liberals and young Tories pressed for a parliamentary inquiry into Irish reprisals but were defeated. Government signals possible talks for settlement while murders and reprisals increase. Sir Hamar Greenwood said October 22 saw police and 14 soldiers killed with many wounded. nine Irish constables arrested, two charged with murder. Black and tan raids caused extensive damage in Tralee and Granard, and Ballymore in County Sligo was nearly ruined.
In southern Russia Baron Wrangel fights off five Bolshevik armies pressing him on multiple fronts. They captured Perekop on the isthmus, the sole route to Crimea, threatening to split his forces unless the seven mile trench line holds.
The two international fishing schooner races off Halifax were won by the American entry Esperanto of Gloucester. The victorious captain and crew showed skill and daring to defeat the field.
A U S Department of Agriculture trial compared an 8 to 11 month old purebred Aberdeen Angus steer with a Jersey-heavy dairy type scrub over 21 months. Both fed similar rations. Angus gained more in girth and produced higher value cuts, while Jersey showed faster length and height growth. Angus had lower maintenance needs and higher feed efficiency, yielding $20 to $50 more value per 1000 pounds of live weight due to better meat quality.
Buyers report strong demand for heavy farm horses with sparse supply. When a good heavy horse appears for sale it is snapped up, leaving city horse users at a loss. R W Clark of Colorado Agricultural College urges proactive bidding to profit from upcoming scarcity.
The cheap way to begin is to buy western ewes from September 1 to November 1. Choose young ewes with Merino blood and dense fleeces, avoiding old or broken mouthed animals. Native ewes of good quality may also be affordable. Also buy rams for breeding from reliable purebred mutton sheep breeders.
A miner jokes that a true cosmopolitan mixes diverse origins and tastes. He imagines a Russian Jew with an Italian wife in England, smoking Egyptian cigarettes in a room with a Turkish carpet while drinking American cream soda and hearing a German band. The vignette playfuls on cultural fusion.
A long standing household remedy Boschee's Syrup is praised for soothing throat and lung irritation, aiding sleep and easy morning expectoration. Advertises its use for colds bronchitis and lung troubles and notes availability everywhere.
The article notes Chinese barbers rarely receive tips and charge under 5 cents for a full service including hair cut head shave face shave and massage of shoulders and back. It describes a triangular straight razor with a folding handle made from old rails or crude steel.
Catarrh described as a local disease influenced by constitution. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is pitched as a tonic and blood purifier that cleanses the blood and builds up the system to restore normal conditions and let nature work. Circulars free from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
A compact meditation on craft and agency. The potter shapes clay as a man builds his life through personal action and effort.
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