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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
8
Adventurous and reckless band, Curly Flandrau and Mac steal horses then split in Saguache Arizona. A posse closes in after a pursuit, Mac is killed, Curly is captured, and Luck Cullison, a former fighting sheriff, is shot in the ensuing events.
Curly, wounded from a shooting at the Circle C, is captured and held by ranch men who debate his fate. Kate Cullison challenges the mob, urging law, while Maloney and others resist a lynching as the scene shifts from danger to doubt.
Two riders from the Bar Double M identify young Flandran as the horse thief at the ranch. Buck questions witnesses Maloney and Bonfils about the suspect’s reputation, while the foreman casts doubt on the youth’s chances. The scene ends with a tense exchange over Cullison.
An advertisement promotes Freezone as a cheap corn remedy from a Cincinnati inventor. It claims quick, painless relief for hard and soft corns and interdigital calluses with a tiny bottle sold by druggists.
The Cape Cod district of Massachusetts hosts the best known cranberry section in the world with an average yield of 30 barrels per acre.
An advertisement touts Triner's American Elixir of Bitter Wine as essential for success with claims of boosting appetite digestion and nerve vigor. It promises relief from constipation headaches nervousness insomnia and depression and notes 80 years of market history since its 1890 introduction. The ad lists Angelica Bitter Tonic and provides Joseph Triner Company address in Chicago.
A British sailor may not grow a mustache under naval rules. If he attempts facial hair, he is fined one month’s pay. The provision targets uniform appearance and discipline within the navy.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble yet many do not realize the cause. Swamp Root claims to restore kidney health and relieve back pain headaches and nervousness. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York and purchase larger bottles at drug stores.
A Skagit County Times note quotes the Boston Transcript asserting the need to prepare youth for life. The fragment highlights a tea of public discourse on social or moral guidance via a milk bottle metaphor.
An advertisement argues catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy acting through the blood, offering a hundred dollar reward for uncured cases and noting price and free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
A wry remark notes the stubbornness of certain men in talking and certain women in quitting, using humor to compare reluctance across genders.
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