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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
2
Take one dose every two hours up to three to ease grippe like misery. Opens clogged nostrils relieves headache runny nose sneezing fever dullness and stiffness. Quickest relief, costs only a few cents at drug stores, tastes nice, contains no quinine. Insist on Pape's.
A man asks if a parrot learns short words easier. The dealer replies that parrots learn best with polysyllables, a humorous quip about bird vocabulary.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder problems often misattributed to other causes. Pain in the back headaches and nervousness can signal kidney trouble. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is advertised as a remedy obtainable at drug stores with a sample offer by mail from Dr Elmer Co Binghamton NY.
Quote from Boston Transcript dialogue between Sallie Addie Pose about Jack with a tense, personal exchange.
A vintage advertisement touts Danderine to beautify hair and restore color vigor and vitality. It claims a 35 cent bottle refreshes the scalp checks dandruff and falling hair and makes hair long strong and shiny.
A Boston Transcript piece portrays a debate on the self-made man ideal with quotable lines about interruption and identity. The dialogue echoes early 20th century concerns over independence, merit, and public perception.
The Oregon legislature in special session at Salon ratified the federal constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage, making Oregon the twenty fifth state to approve. Also reported are troop movements from Brest to New York, and plans for a Boston to San Francisco steamship service via the Panama Canal beginning March 1.
Washington Herbert Toover tells the house ways and means committee the United States should serve notice to the world that after the emergency it cannot extend relief to Austria. He says European powers responsible for Austria's downfall should bear the burden thereafter. The report also notes 8,000 American troops in Siberia to begin homeward movement after mid February and Berger’s second vote defeat in Congress.
A cable from Shanghai to the Korean National Association at Honolulu reports a foreign Korean army crossing the Siberian frontier and capturing En Chin from Japanese provisional government forces. Other items note Poincaré winning a Senate seat, a Baltic blockade expansion, Paris decisions on Turkish sovereignty, and Russia and Bulgaria unrest.
Personal Dr Frank J Goodnow president of Johns Hopkins rested comfortably after a broken leg in Baltimore Maryland. Gen Edwin S Greeley longtime banker died at New Haven aged eighty seven. Mrs Mary Elizabeth Payne eighty six buried in Ogden Utah died of heart trouble born Louisville Kentucky. Joseph E Willard American ambassador to Spain now in Madrid after absence in the United States. Maude Powell violinist of New York died in Pittsburgh pennsylvania on tour from overwork caused collapse.
In Berlin on January 15, a mob of about 30,000 radicals including communists and independents clashed with police while attempting to storm the Reichstag over a factory councils bill. Noske's troops fired after hours of assaults, leaving twenty dead and over a hundred wounded.
Mrs G Schoonfield of Muskegon Michigan says six years of back weakness left her unable to walk at times. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she became strong enough to perform all her work and urges others to try the remedy.
A warning to women to protect health and avoid female ailments. The ad promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy that restores health in women and offers confidential advice from the company, with letters read by a woman.
A man’s descriptive ability fails to capture a woman’s hat. The notion of pep drives action regardless of value, pushing people to do something even if it isn’t worthwhile.
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