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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1924
Page
9
A collage of brief comic vignettes and a travel note. Jokes feature a child miscounting numbers and a parent teasing about medicine. A South Seas travel remark notes no kissing customs among islanders. A human interest quip compares a wife speaking four hours to another silent five minutes.
President Coolidge supports delaying the soldiers' bonus until a tax bill advances from the Ways and Means Committee. House leaders led by Longworth seek priority for tax cuts, while ex service members Fish Johnson and Andrew push to advance their bonus measure. Longworth says the fight is beaten, though the veterans remain ready to press their bill.
Washington reports the federal trade commission ordered the Minneapolis chamber of commerce to stop unfair competition against farmers cooperative associations. The Equity Co operative exchange, now in receivership, had sued after being denied a business connection with the Minneapolis market and quotation service for returning earnings to members as patronage dividends.
Europe endures the severest winter of a generation with heavy snow from Norway to Sicily. Rivers and seas ice up trading routes and rail traffic halts. Italy reports century cold, Venice canals and lagoons iced over.
National Guard companies from Cairo Mount Vernon and Salem arrived as the situation quieted. The Whisky raids lasted about three weeks and were conducted by federal officers with hundreds of volunteer citizens, many members of the Ku Klux Klan. More than 200 arrests reported.
In Waukegan special delivery practice a messenger named TJ Carl Selee warned he would resign rather than deliver a dressed hog weighing about 70 pounds with a special delivery stamp. Postmaster Manson Talcott sought four trucks to handle the unusual parcel and ensure delivery.
Six people drowned when their automobile went through Lake Andrews ice near Alexandria Minnesota. Three others escaped. The deceased are Mrs Pearl Glade and two children, Mrs Rolo Glade and one child, and Rudolph Wolfe.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a tonic that stops falling hair and itching scalp, correcting dandruff and reviving dry or fading hair with gloss and life. It claims rapid effects and calls it refreshing and non greasy, available at drug stores. The same page notes Cincinnati public library bars married women from future employment.
An old advertisement promotes genuine California Fig Syrup for babies and children. It claims the product eases constipation, biliousness, fever, and colic without narcotics, sweetens the stomach, and starts the bowels, urging buyers to say California to their druggist to avoid counterfeits.
The fragment centers on a sick child Freddie rejecting a toothache joke and preferring earache. A nurse speaks as Freddie muses that doctors pull ears when treating him, while a broader remark condemns popularity bought at the cost of condescension to vice.
A portrait of Dr R V Pierce founder of the Invalids Hotel in Buffalo New York. An eminent physician known for integrity and invention of Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription a herbal tonic claimed to aid women with menstrual pain nervousness and related ailments available as tablets or liquid. Send 10c for a trial sample to Dr Pierce's Invalids Hotel Buffalo NY.
From the fall of Rome until the Fifteenth century medals were almost unknown. Thousands keep in good health by taking one or two Brandreth Pills at bedtime. They cleanse the system and purify the blood. What nobler employment than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
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