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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
2
An old advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as the best laxative for kids, promising safe relief for stomach, liver, and bowels with a fruity taste and clear dosing directions on each bottle. It urges mothers to insist on the California label.
A fragment notes a humorous remark about an author and his nocturnal road use. It mentions Garfield Tea as a remedy for liver and kidney disorders. The snippet also describes an ornamental milk bottle holder designed to convert into a pitcher.
A letter from Leduc Alberta dated December 27 1919 thanks Triner's American Elixir of Bitter Wine for relieving severe stomach troubles among farmers. The notice promotes Triner's line including Liniment for rheumatism and neuralgia and a Cough Sedative available at a Chicago address.
A concise reflection on how people value food guidance only when costs arise and the refrain that what a person sows, that he shall reap, linking practical dining wisdom to personal responsibility.
A Washington dispatch says about 3,000 of 3,600 aliens arrested in recent roundups are deemed deportable as Communist and Communist Labor parties are considered revolutionary. Cabinet members Lansing Baker and Palmer suffer severe colds. Wilson plans rest in Southern California. League covenant tenets and Monroe Doctrine unchanged per Republicans. Navy pay rises pass House. China steamer refloated. Bolshevik forces advance toward Mongolia and claim Elizabethgrad. Erzberger wounded in Berlin, attacker identified. London divorce cases surge. Hungarian refugees surge near Budapest. Canada Pacific train crash leaves 15 dead. German envoy Mayer arrives in Paris. Germany asks for loan relief. Yugoslav women gain voting rights. 1919 trade surplus hits record. Seven German soldiers tied to wartime looting were moved to Lille fortress.
Senator R M La Follette went to Mayo Hospital Rochester Minnesota for infection related to teeth with his secretary son accompanying him. Senator Boies Penrose advised by his physician to avoid warmer climate and limit duties to extend life. Also Sergt Joseph Dunwoody aged ninety seven died at Washington soldiers home from pneumonia after influenza. Richard L Garner, African explorer and author, died in Chattanooga Tennessee after earlier claims of monkey language findings.
Domestic Otis Amidon collector for the American Railway Express in Chicago was shot and killed during a revolver battle with three bandits. The incident adds to a wave of crime as nationwide reports on epidemics and public health unfold.
A Warsaw report says the Polish cabinet signed a mobilization order due to Bolshevik progress. The telegram from Chita reports capture of American engineers Col Blunt seven others and Red Cross members, plus an entire Polish army corps of former prisoners by Bolsheviks near Kliuchinskaya. A wireless Warsaw message cites a Bolshevik rumor of red cavalry in Persia and India.
An advertisement urges readers to take Pape's Cold Compound every two hours for up to three doses to quickly relieve cold symptoms. It claims the first dose clears nasal congestion, stops runny nose, eases headache and feverishness, and costs only a few cents at drug stores.
The remark centers on Isobel Glimme who hosts lavish entertainments without regard for cost. A luncheon for her dancing club featured two hard boiled eggs as a centerpiece and each guest received a single slice, underscoring her opulent hospitality.
An old advertisement extols Boschee's Syrup as a remedy for coughs bronchitis colds and throat irritation. It claims it helps with night rest and easy morning expectoration and notes the product has been used for fifty three years in homes across America and the civilized world.
David Belasco jokes about the old stock companies recalling a western town visit in the 1880s. He describes a ragged repertory night where the hero forgot his line and the prompter frantically searched the prompt books amid a two minute hush.
A Birmingham Age-Herald editorial quotes the adage that a man cannot always tell when he reaches the door of opportunity and asserts that trying every door will eventually open one.
Knicker favorite sons are plentiful as supplies rise. Bocker notes some states even have twins, highlighting a trend in regional offerings and multiple similar entities.
Advertises Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a temperance remedy for women with backache headaches and nervousness. Claims non alcohol herbal formulation with printed ingredients and mail order trial offer. Includes testimonial from Mrs Jennie Correll and note praising Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation and headaches.
The Wall Street Journal notes a commercial debate over whether future American perfumers will be artisans or artists. It questions whether perfumers will pursue natural flower scents or synthetic laboratory odors and marks scented products as trade secrets, asking why many fragrances taste alike.
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