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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1923
Page
3
A Young school civics class required class schedules. One pupil listed a forgery course on his slip, astonishing the teacher. Investigation revealed forgery appeared in a foundry class, exposing an odd scheduling issue at school.
In the decade since 1911 the campus teaching staff at the University of Wisconsin rose by 61 percent while the public service staff declined by 135 percent signaling a major restructuring of university staffing and focus.
Mrs. Smith advertises Castoria claiming thirty years of use to relieve infants and children of constipation laxative wind colic and diarrhea and to regulate stomachs for better digestion and natural sleep without opiates. The genuine product bears signature.
A California inventor adapts the old river ferryboat idea to a water pumping plant. Two fourteen foot sweeps with sixteen vertical paddles pivoted to a moving framework swing with the river current, reversing angles automatically like a pendulum, delivering about eighty six gallons per minute from shore attached equipment.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment for pimples and blackheads followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water five minute wash. Recommends daily use to keep skin clear, and includes Cuticura Talcum in the line of products.
A widow at a summer hotel fears nightly raps as she dreams of her husband. A neighboring guest discovers the sounds are mosquitoes being killed with slippers, not spirits, explaining the disturbance in room 13 and 14.
A witness recalls a man described as respectable wearing spats. Magistrate Mr Lankester asks if spats signal respectability. The wit replies they are often used to conceal old boots, per London Tit-Bits.
Women report avoiding operations after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters from Mrs Edwards in Wilson North Carolina and Mrs R G Westover in Akron Ohio say the remedy eased symptoms and helped them avoid surgery, with claims of renewed health and strength. The ad invites requests for a private text on ailments peculiar to women.
Congressmen touring the Roof of the World urge a six foot wider Fall River road to make it two way and finance improvements with a one dollar seasonal car tax to repay a 280000 appropriation. The plan links park access with tourist revenue and preserves a famed scenic route through Estes Park Grand Lake and Loveland.
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