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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1924
Page
5
An urgent plea highlights dysentery causes from bad food or water and weather changes. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is recommended for home use, travelers, and vacation kits as a dependable safe medicine in emergencies.
An advertisement extols Cham berlain's Tablets as a pink skin clearing, bile-boosting remedy that aids digestion and cleanses the bowels. It claims users notice improved health and appearance without realizing they have taken them, branding the product a regular pocket treasure promoted by H. H. Pember.
In California oil ponds where crude sits, a freak shadow persists when a person stands over the surface. The sun heats the oil, bubbles form, and when the person moves the shaded area stays cooler longer, creating a lingering shadow effect until the oil rewarms.
Tea leaf fortune reading is described as a memory worthy custom. The text lists symbols and their supposed meanings such as trains, snakes, doves, stars, moons, horseshoes, shoes, gloves, chairs, keys, initials, and tree crowns, linking each to journeys, enemies, luck, meetings, visitors, new undertakings, and gatherings.
Detroit News traces perfume origins to a nectar spill at a Greek feast, noting early preferences for delicate scents beyond musk and spices. It recalls ancient favorites Iris, rose, crocus, violet plus thyme and marjoram, followed by Roman excess that led to the art’s decline until the Renaissance and the Florentine perfumer Leni reportedly aided Catherine de Medici’s court in France.
A satirical riff argues that a woman's actions are driven by unpredictable motives and social expectations. The piece notes a paradox where a young man’s remark ends with him marrying a woman two weeks later, reflecting on gender roles and timing.
The World's Work notes annuities predate life insurance, with early roots in Assyria and Babylonia banking. The first definite mentions appear around 40 BCE in Rome, and medieval rulers, magnates, and financiers issued life and term annuities to raise funds. Early contract values lacked scientific calculation.
A primitive sundial type device called the odd time recorder served the Bellacoola and other tribes. A twig hoop six inches wide set on a slanted stake left a circular shadow in sand to show elapsed time for followers. Shadow position guided canoes whether to push or not to overtake the leader.
The New York Times notes that money, in transfer between people, carries many names. Terms include wages for workers, salary for office staff, emolument for clergy, fee for doctors, dividend for investors, remittance for students, alms for beggars, alimony for divorcees, dowry for widows, legacy for heirs, indemnity for litigants, royalty for authors, interest for lenders, stipend for professors, retainer for lawyers, commission for salespeople, premium for insurers, dot for the engaged, and dough for all, among others.
In a breach of promise case a man confessed he avoided marriage due to a fondness for a disk his prospective bride objected to, ending the engagement. London Tit-Bits notes a famed man of letters who avoided marriage to shirk proposing. An actor famed in his day preferred quiet breakfasts at seven, reading until 10:30, and declined marriage to avoid breaking his long-standing habit.
The National Geographic Society notes that declaring the single largest freshwater spring in the United States is impractical due to fluctuating discharge. Idaho hosts Thousand Springs and Malad Springs, both contenders, while Florida’s Silver Springs ranks among the largest.
In a case involving a white motorist charged with careless driving, a colored laundress testifies about the defendant's character. The exchange centers on whether his car accident risk reflects carelessness, with her noting his habit of not paying for laundry, illustrating a broader view of his heedlessness.
Canary lovers move to the budgerigar as the new love bird captures attention for devotion to its mate. Scientists identify it as the budgerigar. A pair can fetch near one thousand dollars, though some are offered around five dollars.
Mrs America Brownell died in Des Moines. She was a second cousin of George Washington, born in Park County Indiana in 1840, moved with her parents to Iowa in the early 1850s, and had lived in Des Moines for five years. Her husband, Mr Brownell, a retired farmer, died about 22 years earlier.
Help those gassy pains in stomach waken sluggish liver and stop costiveness with Chamberlain's Tablets. Good digestion an active liver easy regular movements to gether with an enlivening of your mental and physical forces follows their use. Small cost only 25c. H H Pember.
An old advertorial promotes Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a sure cure for sudden stomach cramps and diarrhoea. It urges readers to buy now, signed H. H. Pember.
An advertisement touts camphor hydrastis and witch hazel mixtures for eye trouble, claiming relief for aching eyes and improved sight. A businessman testifies Lavoptik eye wash helps red watery eyes. a small bottle is said to cure weak strained or sore eyes with a free aluminum eye cup offered.
Notice is hereby given that on July 19, 1924, Niesse Groeneweg was appointed Executrix of the estate of Pleum Groeneweg, deceased, by the District Court of Sioux County Iowa. All persons indebted to the estate must pay, and those with claims must present them to the court for allowance authenticated. Dated July 19, 1924. C A Walhof, Attorney.
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