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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1921
Page
2
The item warns readers to look for Bayer on aspirin packaging to ensure genuine Bayer aspirin for common ailments. It notes price for small boxes and mentions druggists selling larger packages with aspirin trade name Bayer. Aesop quote follows about fooling readers with sensational claims.
Those who are run down notice catarrh worsens, showing catarrh is influenced by constitutional conditions. Ball's Catarrh Medicine acts as a tonic and blood purifier through the blood to reduce inflammation and restore normal mucous surfaces. All druggists. Circulars free. F B J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio.
A witty dialog contrasts a rich florist with a barrel of money and a flower barrel. An old Garfield Tea ad promotes tonic use for constipation biliousness liver and kidney troubles. The passage then notes a man should not borrow trouble as many are eager to share it.
Mrs Dora Williams recalls a yearlong illness before praising Eatonie in a testimonial that claims Fatonie products remove excess acidity and gases causing indigestion. The ad urges taking Eatonic after meals for sourness heartburn belching and other stomach issues with a small price and druggist guarantee.
Postmaster General Burleson signs a France parcel post accord raising the 22 pound limit effective Feb 1 1921. United States protests Japan over Langdon shooting in Vladivostok. court of inquiry ordered. Senate votes to trim regular army to 150000. House passes 118 million dollar appropriation bill. 14 congressmen return from Canal Zone to New York. House defeats 100 million anti prohibition enforcement fund. Langdon shot in back by Japanese sentry, official Navy report confirms. Federal coal regulation bill introduced in the Senate. American occupation forces in Germany reduced to 8000. Harding inaugural planned for east steps of Capitol. Naval court to review Mat tice Ontario clash. Ford Newberry recount in Michigan shows Ford ahead by 857 votes.
Two U S Navy sailors Ed gar Oscar Bestrom from the U S 8 Arkansas and Birton Maynar from the destroyer Stoddard are lost at sea. Other notes include Mrs Ivetin Jewel Brown nominating John W Davis, a municipal election result in Kingwood West Virginia, and various industrial, legal, and political items from across the United States and abroad.
Washington Jan 19 Congress will be called into a special session April 4 per Ways and Means Chairman Fordney after talks with President-elect Harding. The Fordney emergency tariff bill has ten amendments broadening coverage to nearly all farm products and faces a Senate fight amid opposition and added proposals like a codification bill and soldiers bonus measure.
President elect and Mrs. Harding decline an invitation to attend a charity ball in Washington on March 4 as a substitute for the discarded inaugural ball. The committee says the charity ball will proceed, though Harding cannot attend out of propriety given his stance against an inaugural ball.
Washington reports the senate, by 41 to 38, rejected a 150000 army size, reconsidering last week’s plan. It then adopted a resolution directing the secretary to halt recruiting until the force is set at 175000, per Senator New of Indiana.
Washington January 19 the house resolution to repeal most wartime laws passed the senate judiciary committee. The committee approved the measure by a 4 to 3 vote and amended it to continue the Lever food and fuel control act.
Actor Owen Moore is reported to be ill and hospitalized at the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York City as of January 19. No further conditions are provided.
A child visits his grandmother hoping for candy or money. When she says there is no money in the house, the boy asks gravely if she could write a check. The vignette blends humor with a budding sense of financial savvy.
An old advertisement touts Garfield Tea as cleansing the system purifying the blood and improving general health. It urges purchase from druggists and presents a promotional medical benefit claim.
Lord Haig concedes his golf prowess was overestimated by himself after a pro at St Andrews called him a better jodger than a gowfer. The remark ended his belief in superior golf skill.
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