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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
7
The article traces New Year resolutions from Louis IX’s era to ancient rites in Japan Egypt and Persia. It notes vows to quit drinking or lying and the shift from formal vows to individual, hopeful turning of a new leaf. It concludes people rely too much on resolutions to renew a year.
A New Year feature collects varied wishes from readers, ranging from charity and shelter to personal happiness and freedom. Voices from Mrs Blanche Mason to an elderly JOINZ member reveal hopes for health wealth education and world peace, with humor and reflection on true desires.
A Detroit Free Press note explains new telephone rates moving to metered service. The exchange clarifies each call will be billed separately, addressing concern that hourly charges could overwhelm users.
The Eskimos in Canada total 3,296 with 1,087 in Baffin Land the large arctic island north of Hudson Bay separated from Greenland by Baffin Bay. On the mainland there are 2,209 mainly in the territory advanced to Hudson Bay.
The United States climbs from third to second among world coal exporters as British opinion contemplates America becoming the permanent top coal exporter.
A Chicago advertisement promotes Tuiner's American Helixir of Bitter Wine for digestion and appetite, Triner's Cough Sedative for colds, Anti patrin gargle for swollen tonsils, and Liniment for chilblains neuralgia and rheumatism. It also offers a Triner's Wall Calendar 1920 free or 10 cents by mail from Joseph Triner Company, 1833 43 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago.
A compact line depicts a hobo reject of fixed work and a vow to live as if tomorrow may end. The speaker asserts a resolve to keep promises even when no one expects them, reflecting a borderland ethic in a frontier setting.
A Fremont reader describes relief from midlife symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter praises heat flashes nervousness backache and irritability disappearing and offers remedies and support from the Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts with forty years of experience.
Safe gentle remedy claims to relieve kidney liver bladder and stomach troubles and support urinary organs. The ad urges taking three or four capsules daily with a promise of new life and health and offers refunds if unsatisfied. Sealed packages advertised in three sizes at all drug stores and druggists.
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