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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
3
The notice touts a patented process that eliminates biting and patching for pipe smokers. It urges men of all pipe experience to switch to P. A. to satisfy their smoked appetite and enjoy a smoother, more satisfying smoke on the smoke line.
Farmers discuss wheat prospects while the Pocket Plowing Association schedules its second annual plowing match for July 29 in Oakland City with divisions for boys under 16 and 18 and various plow types. Local readers note political jabs about Taft and Wilson, a locust outbreak in Crescent Hill, and soldier papers from Germany amid other small-town notes.
A collage of rural Indiana briefs notes public life figures. Arnold Westfall dies at Grandview June 1. Joe Craig installs first county electric range as power is cut for transformer work. Senator James A. Hemenway praised for road improvements linking Boonville Evansville and nearby counties. Dale Chautauqua success and next year contract. Farmer Ora Brooner reports harvest in Freemont Texas with tomatoes potatoes Bermuda onions and watermelons. J L O Bannon of New Albany seeks Democratic nom for Third district congress with a combative campaign. Charlestown Citizen Record forecasts strong run for 1920 and likely Republican landslide if nomination.
Advertisement touts Number 40 For The Blood by J C Mendenhall of Evansville Indiana as a cure for blood poison glandular disease and related afflictions. It claims relief from nodes tumors ulcers mucous patches copper spots and scrofulous enlargements and notes Basye sells the product.
Fourteen pecks of high grade Early Yellow Dent seed corn were given to 14 Elkhart County corn club boys who signed interest-free notes to the Goshen City National Bank to pay within eight weeks. A December seed corn auction is planned after fall selections. Falls farmland notes include limestone use in Starke County improving yields from 11 to 40 bushels per acre and ongoing dairy and poultry farm observations.
Speculation runs through the American Army of Occupation on fraternization rules after peace is signed. Third Army authorities expect anti fiat measures to fall away, but predict little change in soldiers’ basic attitude toward occupied residents. Some individuals may test the ban lifting, but the army as a whole plans no celebratory relaxation.
The ad urges keeping Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at home for stomach and bowel ailments when a physician is away. It claims no physician can prescribe a better medicine and suggests immediate use to avoid pain and risk, with availability everywhere.
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