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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle laxative to remove liver and bowel impurities. The copy claims it won’t gripe or inconvenience and helps you sleep. A humorous exchange follows about clothes making the man and a cheeky chauffeur reference.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy for catarrh with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. Included are testimonials and a Toledo Ohio address for F J Cheney Co. plus a local humorous snippet about five dollar loans from The Home Sector.
President Wilson by executive order relieved coal commission members and shifted duties to the council of national defense. He urged departments to prepare and industries to buy coal in summer to prevent a next winter shortage. One member notes cost increases due to wage boosts should not exceed about forty cents per ton.
Washington reports that liquor prices vary widely affecting enforcement of prohibition. New Orleans pays about twice New York for safe whisky. Omaha asks 24 dollars per quart. Baltimore 14. St. Louis 19 to 20. Chicago 10 to 25 for lower grades. Washington DC offers good rye at 12 to 18 per quart.
Conference committees representing railroads and sixteen unions have completed the creation of a bi partisan wage board. FE P Whiter of the Pennsylvania Railroad was named chairman as the board begins evaluating demands of about 2 million workers seeking roughly 1.1 billion dollars.
New York reports that United States ships will carry flour to needy European countries within a month and include many deported Russians Finns and Poles among the 400 plus from across the country. The raids on Communist Party members in January are noted among those to be deported.
Advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as the premier cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. The "gentle healing vegetable compound" promises quick relief and invites readers to request a sample by mailing ten cents to Binghamton New York.
Popular Mechanics describes an improved life line gun tested for rescuing shipwrecks. A one piece shell loads powder and projectile for muzzle energy, allowing elevations of 30 45 60 or 80 degrees and a range of 1700 feet. It is portable by one man and rides on a two wheel carriage. The lanyard fires the mechanism and the life line unwinds from the projectile’s center to avoid kinking.
An advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes promising a fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton and blends with a color card for matching fabrics. A film buyer jokes about acting and death after a producer asks if he will buy the film.
Anrau the capital of Argovia hosts a hardworking library of 80 000 volumes for a city of 10 000. With eight volumes per inhabitant Aurau claims the title of a miniature Athens in this description of its public library.
A humorous observation on a married man’s pleasures opposing his wife. A note that eighty five thousand women work for the U S railway system. A caution that starting a journey requires ongoing movement. A remark that marrying for money earns a bitter payoff.
The passage describes aspirin as a Bayer product in tin boxes of twelve tablets at low cost and notes that druggists also carry larger Bayer packages. It states aspirin is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acids and lists conditions it relieves, including colds headaches toothaches earaches neuralgia lumbago rheumatism neuritis joint pains and general pain.
The passage notes Esau gave up his birthright for a pot of stew and comments that he regretted the decision. It then shifts to a fragment about Eskimo children playing football with a bag filled with hair and a remark about Pluck's quick actions despite misfortune.
A brief exchange includes the line If that's bouillon I'm an idiot followed by That's right, sir. It is bouillon. The remark is attributed to Tyrihnuns in Christiania.
The article notes that in Columbus time only seven metals were known, while today more than fifty metals are used. It highlights a vast expansion in metal knowledge and application over the centuries.
The passage notes about 1,000,000 people in India engaged in silk production and states that mulberry silk caterpillars and moths are fully domesticated. It mentions Kongoland breeds a native woolless sheep and contains a comment on people wasting time trying to persuade others of their truthfulness.
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