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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1919
Page
7
Notice proclaims Gold Dust has never been made from anything else but cotton seed oil. It claims thirty nine years of distributing products worldwide for cleaning scrubbing glass washing dishes purifying ice boxes drain pipes and more. It touts uses for washing clothes mopping softening brushes and general cleaning supplies.
The founders built The American Cotton Oil Company from cotton seed waste, producing oil cake meal hulls and linters. This created a new revenue stream for the South, now yielding over five hundred million dollars annually.
Henry Starr the infamous Indian bandit of Oklahoma has been released after serving four years of a 25 year sentence. The article traces Starrs life from Cherokee Nation roots through multiple escapes, robberies, a Colorado bank arrest, and parole aided by his wife and son, noting his reform and new demeanor.
Red Cross agents report typhus activity in eastern Poland Russia Serbia and Macedonia to a conference. A typhus experts committee formed to advise on fighting the disease and forecast a new Red Cross organization. Measures expected to curb spread and avert wider outbreak.
The guide explains skill in using a road drag, stressing experience over rules. It covers hitch angle, skew adjustments, and weight shifting to control discharge, cutting, and crown work, noting factors like hitch length and team height affect results. An intelligent operator learns techniques through practice.
The report states 88.19 miles of roads built under forestry funds in the past year with 43 projects under cooperative agreement. It notes a survey of 1,061.85 miles and 6416 miles constructed, linking road quality to social improvement and rural connection.
An old medical advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder issues claiming it neutralizes uric acid and relieves rheumatism. It includes a mail order offer with a ten cent fee and requests bottle sizes from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. A stray moral note warns against trifling with home interiors and dwellings near the base.
An advertised remedy claims Calomel poisons the liver and bones while Dodson's Liver Tone offers a safe vegetal alternative. The pitch asserts quick results with a money back guarantee and suitability for the whole family including children.
A collage of jokes and ad snippets notes a marriage proposal by telephone as cheaper, a tonic claim for vitality, jokes about shoes and language, a Hall's Catarrh Medicine ad, and quips about saints and gloves with a Brooklyn Citizen reference.
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