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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1921
Page
6
Thousands of women suffer kidney or bladder trouble without knowing it. Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root is advertised as a remedy that restores kidney health and may ease back pain headaches and despondency. Send ten cents for a sample bottle. medium and large bottles sold at drug stores.
An elderly man reflects on his past missteps and the foolish acts he once pursued. The reminiscence frames aging as a lens on former behavior and regret.
An advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to sick children to cleanse the liver and bowels. It promises rapid relief from constipation and sour bile, claiming the product returns a well behaved child within hours and warns to request the genuine California Fig Syrup from the druggist.
A light exchange about repairs appears in a Boston Transcript snippet featuring Mrs Scrapp and Scrapp debating continued talk versus a pause for work. The brief dialogue playfully contrasts persistence with a needed pause in a municipal setting.
Diamond Dyes promises simple at home dyeing for any fabric. Instructions suit wool silk linen cotton or mixes. Do not streak fade or run with Diamond Dyes says ads.
A dialogic scene shows an old lady challenging a conductor about the purpose of water. The conductor insists it is merely for water, while the lady hints at something stronger, probing his motives.
Snowy linens are the pride of every housewife. Keep them in that condition by using Red Cross Ball Blue in your laundry. 5 cents at grocers.
In a London Tit-Bits quip, Mrs. Dare shifts from brown to golden hair to satisfy her husband’s request for a dyeing look. The joke frames marriage humor around personal grooming choices.
The Senate approves the Borah bill barring tolls for American vessels through the Panama Canal by a 47 to 37 vote. Lodge objects but the bill advances to the House as armament talks loom. The finance committee backs broader tax bill amendments including a 86.40 per gallon spirits tax and repeals of several excise taxes. Chairman Penrose predicts presidential action by month’s end.
Leonard Wood addressing the American-Japan Society in Tokyo urged that relations remain calm and free of misunderstanding. He said there is no reason for trouble between the United States and Japan and that they should be unable to arrive at an understanding on any point of disagreement.
Senate agricultural bloc forces tax program on Republicans in a Capper house meeting. Lodge Penrose Watson Curtis Lenroot Moe Cormick finalize a substitute including keeping high income surtaxes, slashing other rates, repealing certain taxes, and retaining the franchise and corporate taxes with various adjustments.
Prohibition agents report a massive theft of rare wines and liquors valued at about $300,000 from Joseph E. Leiter's Virginia country estate near the Potomac. An organized bootlegging gang used an acetylene torch to bore a three inch steel door and blow off the cellar door.
Four bandits stole five mail packages worth $191,000 at an Illinois Central platform on Roosevelt Road in Chicago. Within hours the thieves were arrested and the loot recovered, in a police coup credited to Lieutenant William Shoemaker. Post office inspectors were not yet notified.
Attorney General Daugherty said the Department of Justice would not act until Congress decides on the proposed inquiry into the Ku Klux Klan. He asserted the inquiry should uncover facts before the department considers the case.
Federal authorities seized all books records and assets of Harrison Parker's Co operative Enterprises in Chicago after allegations of large liabilities and missing securities. A steel chest with more than two million in Liberty bonds reportedly vanished from Ogden avenue. Parker denies the claim as receivers take control of subsidiaries and affiliated companies.
Formal requests to strike were received from locals of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, led by W. G. Lee and James Murdock. The letters urge permission to walk out, citing general rule 9 and the pay rates set by the United States railway labor board.
Three obsolete battleships Maine Missouri and Wisconsin plus the cruiser Columbia and monitors Ozark and Tonopah will be sold as junk at the Philadelphia navy yard. Aggregate tonnage and salvageable stores and machinery will be removed.
James McGill wed Meda Trostol in San Francisco then was rushed to San Quentin to begin a life sentence for the murder of John Koples, a Marysville merchant. Two deputy sheriffs witnessed the event.
A special committee from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States says the U S cannot desert Europe. It urges continued American participation in reparations, economy plans, and peace efforts, including not withdrawing troops from the Rhine until a solid plan is in place.
Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland hosted the third Army Ordnance association meeting with limited guests. Demonstrations featured flashless powder and varied weapons from sixteen inch fifty caliber naval rifles to portable machine guns and a 4000 pound bomb carrying over a ton of TNT.
A vintage advertisement urges women with backache and general ailments to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It claims decades of endorsements and offers a 10 cent trial package by mail from Buffalo New York.
The New York Sun quips about Jackson avoiding Sunday drives to the country to fetch produce, noting he finds it burdensome to carry goods home city to rural roads. The remark frames a light, humorous stance on weekend leisure and domestic errands.
A housewife smiles at a basket of clear white clothes and thanks Red Cross Ball Blue for the bright results. Grocers advertise the product with keen sales green.
An irate pedestrian confronts a footpad in the rain after three hours waiting for a booth. The man with $1.50 and a tin watch laments his luck as the other asserts a harder life ahead.
The Azeri rebellion in Azerbaijan Republic intensifies with the last Karabagh fighting reporting 1000 Russian dead and 8000 wounded. Soviet forces lost artillery and ammunition as the insurgent movement expands in Kasakh district led by Sultan Bey Sultanyv with General Lesvar dovsky commanding the Soviet army.
Lucian Soward, a prominent Dayton attorney, was attacked and murdered in his Dayton office shortly after noon, according to police reports. Detectives probe motive and suspects as details remain unclear.
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