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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1924
Page
3
An old advertisement urges mothers to use genuine California Fig Syrup for babies and children. It claims the product regulates bowels without griping, sweetens the stomach, starts the liver, contains no narcotics, and warns against counterfeits by asking to say California to the druggist.
Plate marks or hall marks indicate standard quality, assay office, date, and maker's private mark. In Britain these marks are optional with few exceptions.
An advertisement offers Pye or Tint services restoring worn garments and draperies with dye to look renewed.
A 15 cent Diamond Dyes package promises easy directions that let any woman dye or tint faded items even without prior experience. Consumers can choose any color at the drug store according to the ad copy.
A prisoner says he acted as a peace maker while the magistrate recalls the man being knocked senseless. The exchange ends with the prisoner affirming there was no other way to achieve peace, as cited in Pearson's Weekly.
Public notice urges buyers to look for the Bayer name on packages or tablets to ensure authentic and safe Aspirin proven by physicians for 23 years. The warning cautions against imitations and advises saying Bayer when purchasing.
A boy wrestles with the exam question What is a canard and writes a punny reply. The London Post notes his strained reaction to the word and the lingering discomfort of sitting.
Ad copy notes Cascarets for liver and bowels priced ten cents a box. Claims cure biliousness constipation sick headache indigestion. Drug stores carry this advertisement. Seals are found on Guadalupe Island coast of Chile New Zealand and southern Australia and nearby islands. Northern fur seal resides in north Pacific and Bering Sea.
An American made laxative advertisement touts Brandreth Pills as a safe reliable remedy, emphasizing ninety years of production and that the product is entirely vegetable.
Town Topics reports that Jones ran a grocery store which led to his imprisonment after it was found to belong to another man. The incident prompts questions about ownership and legal responsibility.
An advertisement touts Cole Carbolisalve as instantly soothing pain from cuts or burns and claims rapid healing without scarring. Available at druggists for 30 cents or 60 cents from J. W. Cole Co. Rockford, Illinois.
Iowa lawmakers consider Sen Stoddard resolution to fund the Iowa Child Welfare Commission on request by Gov Kendall. The measure, tied to a $5000 appropriation, awaits the Senate Appropriations Committee report amid opposition claims and a sport licensing clarification from the Izaak Walton League. Des Moines city seeks special legislation for a new market site.
Mason City report says the Farmers Cooperative Grain Dealers association passed a resolution urging the legislature to speed up code revision. They request the extra session limit its work to revision, avoid extra costs to taxpayers, and not alter current law intents or enact new measures until revision is finished.
Iowa senators Gil christ and Holdoegel filed an amendment to require physical exams for marriage license applicants with a Eugenics clause mirroring other states. The measure tests for infectious tuberculosis and venereal disease, to be issued by reputable physicians within ten days of application. The Senate also moved substitute language on farm relief and reviewed code revisions on compulsory education, employment bureaus, and state parks.
The Pyramids of Egypt total about 75 structures from dynasties four to twelve built as royal tombs. The Gizeh group features the Great Pyramid, Cheops tomb, with a height around 451 feet and base 750 feet. Stone quarried from hills across the Nile formed the monuments.
Moslems detest bells asserting they bring evil spirits to gatherings and avoid their use in Mohammedan mosques according to the report.
A long standing Castoria product, marketed as a pleasant safe substitute for Castor Oil and other teething remedies, claims no narcotics and directions on each package. Physicians widely recommend the remedy.
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