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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
2
The Chicago health department reports six influenza deaths last week. A health official warns of a coming epidemic as colder weather approaches. Public health advice emphasizes preventing infection, avoiding close face-to-face contact, and using Turpo as a preventive germicide, not a cure.
A brief quip highlights piano manufacturers as a group always upright and square in their business methods. The remark frames a tongue in cheek stereotype about industry ethics.
An old ad claims relief from a severe cold with a dose every two hours, up to three doses. It promises instant congestion relief, stopped nose running, headache relief, and feverish symptoms, touting that Pape's Cold Compound costs only a few cents and requires no quinine.
A brief exchange locates the tongue of land at the river mouth in response to a question about its placement. The dialogue confirms the geographic detail while offering no further context or actions.
In a curious incident a butcher offers a pig’s head to a woman who declines and asks for a friendlier looking animal. The exchange drew attention as bystanders watched the brief scene unfold at the stall.
Bayer Aspirin is advertised as the Genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packaging with directions for colds pain headaches neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The name Bayer signifies genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. A 12 tablet tin costs only a few cents while creosoted pine posts cost twice as much but last four times as long.
A roundup of international and domestic items notes President Wilson’s stance on severing relations with the Carranza government, rail contracts in Washington, and a 300000 man peace time army plan. Pension payouts rise to 222 million for 624 thousand recipients, with Justice reporting rising radical activity and coal strike attempts thwarted.
The Vatican in Rome orders construction of a huge boarding house to accommodate visiting pilgrims and directs erection of additional buildings. In Budapest the judge M Kovacs, probing the murder of Count Lisza, committed suicide by leaping from a third floor courthouse window. Vienna dispatches report twenty one Czecho-Slovak divisions moved to the Hungarian frontier with six regiments already en route.
New York report to legislature details three major radical groups the Union of Russian Workers the Industrial Workers of the World and the communist party and coemmonist labor party pushing overthrow by violence. It notes New York Chicago Cleveland and other centers as headquarters with hundreds arrested and indictments for criminal anarchy.
Federal general Pablo Corrales received Federico Yuahica and his band of about 500 men in Puebla after they entered under a white flag to release United States Consul William Jenkins. Officers were paid fifty pesos each and the men twenty pesos, then disarmed and moved to Altixo for quartering.
The French steamer Brittannia arrived from Marseilles and the Azores with a smallpox case in steerage. Quarantine officials vaccinated nearly a thousand people including passengers and crew. The vessel was held for disinfection and 500 steerage travelers were moved to Hoffman Island for observation.
Visit to the laboratory shows the careful, sterile production of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's ailments. Over 350000 pounds of herbs are gathered yearly, processed with extraction, pasteurization, and sterile bottling, with letters from women praising its effects.
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