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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
2
Washington dispatches note over 900 influenza cases reported to the public health service last week. Officials urge preparation and prevention as cold weather nears. An ad promotes Turpo as a preventive germicide, urging use and medical care if illness develops.
A playful dialogue between a father and son centers on the son’s claim that he eats things and is told insects eat up waste. The exchange echoes a humorous domestic moment about usefulness and chores.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure vegetable herb kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims non stimulant relief for kidney liver and bladder troubles and notes a sworn purity statement with every bottle. Readers may request a sample bottle by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
In a message read to Congress President Wilson presses adoption of a single comprehensive budget with executive control and a joint committee review. He calls for truthful audits, revenue law simplifications, extended food control, and a constructive labor program to reduce prices and ease strain on workers.
According to Ever Ett T. Tomlinson, General Pershing won a competitive army examination by a single point after solving a diagramming problem. The tie was broken between Pershing and Trigginbotham by each diagramming the sentence I love to run, with Pershing presenting the commission-favored parse.
Belge, a Belgian police dog, becomes the first European born dog to accompany an American YWCA secretary to the United States. Miss Marion Alehin of Lynn Massachusetts, who works at the YWCA hostess house in Coblenz, met Belge after an army officer presented the puppy. The four month old dog, with a long pedigree, had recently earned a high prize at a Coblenz dog show.
M Bleriot completed a giant aerobus construction that recently passed its trial runs at Bue aer drome in Paris. The craft can carry twenty eight passengers.
A reader testimonial from Ellensburg Washington credits Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound with restoring health after illness post marriage and enabling them to have a child. The ad urges other women with functional disorders to try the product and seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Frank Lin reports from Massachusetts that high demand for chestnut lumber for railroad ties is wiping out forests. If cutting continues at current pace, the species may be nearly gone in this area within a decade, prompting concerns about timber supply and future woodland.
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