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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
3
A vintage advertisement touts Danderine as a beauty tonic that refreshes the scalp controls dandruff and falling hair and promises hair to appear heavier fuller and more abundant when used regularly. The 35 cent bottle is pitched to druggists and readers as a fast acting solution.
Reports say air propellers may power motorcars and freight cars. Experiments in Europe show promising results with air driven vehicles on land, capable of high speeds on rail with propellers at front and rear. Kansas City Star notes potential efficiency benefits and development milestones.
A vintage ad promises to break a cold in hours with Pape's Cold Compound. It urges doses every two hours, claims to clear nasal congestion, stop runny nose, and relieve headache fever and sneezing. The ad touts low cost and easy taste, noting no quinine.
A Boston Transcript account notes Whistler as a young art student copying famous paintings in a theater. A brother artist surprised him with a Mona Lisa study and Whistler replied with a sly guitar like remark about the fate of the original.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a nightly laxative to keep liver and bowels regular. It promises relief from biliousness headaches and upset stomachs with no inconvenience and mentions children can use Cascarets too with prices 10 25 and 50 cents.
A fragmented quote reflects a parent recalling college life and marveling at changes in education. The speaker notes how much more teaching boys at the college level now differs from the past and jokes about his own knowledge versus his son’s.
Fragmentary dialogue recalls a ball game with a judge and umpire and a wish to talk to the cook. The excerpt focuses on personal reflection and social friction surrounding attendance at a sports event.
Reports from Cannelton to Valparaiso cover a state coal commission push led by operators, East Chicago sewage plans, Bartholomew wheat doubts and prices, Noblesville potato yields, a dog returns $105 to a donor, Anderson reads ward redraw plans, Lafayette urges Purdue funding, Terre Haute rail fare request, Fort Wayne auto deaths, Wayne County voter registration surge, Evansville chicken cholera, Grant beet harvest, Porter cattle sale talk, and Calumet labor market tightness with Inland Steel layoffs absorbed.
In Clark county tobacco thrives on steep river bluffs near Utica and Charlestown as farmers bought land from Shelby and nearby counties. The crop, hard to handle yet producing remarkable quality, is expected to surpass output from two to three years ago. Depression-era labor, markets, and legal notes appear in surrounding briefs from Gary to Indianapolis.
Lesson outlines the Sermon on the Mount as the king’s law for his kingdom. It covers the Beatitudes and the responsibilities of subjects, salt and light imagery, and the laws of righteousness extending beyond outward acts to heart motive and relations.
The piece urges recognizing God in all places from seastore to mountains and home. It calls resisting licentious whispers, maintaining religion in summer as in Sumter, and not neglecting the Bible daily prayer and church attendance when away from home.
The New York Sun reports British young men are growing side whiskers as a postwar fashion shift away from regulation mustaches. The earl of Lonsdale and Hon. Lancelot Lowther are cited as long-time wearers of sideboards influencing the style.
The Birmingham Age-Herald quotes a humorous exchange about replacing a popular boarder. The landlady usually names a successor, but in this Soviet style boarding house the residents plan to decide by a secret ballot after the star boarder’s death yesterday.
An expert notes Japan embraces paper kimonos made from wood pulp. For about $1.50 a garment, buyers get a soft, drapable cloth that resembles costly silk. If Americans adopted paper wear, it could become common daily attire.
A tax collector questions a buxom woman at a farm house door. She confirms a small lot two miles away and notes her husband is buried there, quipping about its value. The exchange highlights local property and burial ties.
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