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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1936
Page
7
An 1890s style ad fragment promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription claiming to make weak women strong with no alcohol. It contrasts moralizing quotes on misery and gender with marketing text and literacy snipes, noting sale by druggists in tablet or liquid forms.
Dr. H. L. Shoub of New York touts Adlerika as a thorough bowel cleanse that acts on both upper and lower bowels. The ad claims it reduces bacteria and colon bacilli, relieves gas pains, sour stomach, nervousness, and headaches, with one spoonful easing GAS and chronic constipation. sold by druggists.
The London news cycle weighs England's refusal of France's demand for swift action to eject German forces from the Rhineland. Amid warnings of a broader conflict, US public works surge, with over 1 billion completed and 2.26 billion more under way, while wage payrolls top 639 million.
Los Angeles inventor H E B McCoy demonstrates a solar furnace using 60 mirrors to focus sunlight into a beam near 4000 degrees Fahrenheit. He claims it could power factories, replace coal and oil, and even charge electric car batteries at solar-powered stations. A two pound rabbit vanished in two minutes as a test.
Dr Edward B Green of the University of Michigan finds intelligence tests only fairly compare individuals after equal practice. In a study with 253 sophomores, repeated testing showed performance gains from zero to 1900 percent, suggesting prediction of vocational success improves with known efficiency levels.
Bucknell University students shown women are steadier than men in course changes. A Bucknellian survey found 225 men switched classes after term start versus 129 women. The report suggests women, in general, may change minds more often, but female students show firmer convictions.
Springfield, Mo. veteran C. H. Burke celebrated his ninety first birthday by donning the Civil War drum major uniform he wore over 70 years ago. The drum gun cap and uniform remain in good condition.
A 12 inch long odd fish like animal with a serpent head eel body and rat tail was found in a fishing net off Georges Bank east of Boston. Experts say it is not a baby sea serpent and are studying its origins.
A WPA demolition of Welfare Island's old city penitentiary unfolds highlighting its grim cells and brutal history. The piece reflects on the island’s evolution from Blackwell to Welfare Island, describes Rikers Island, and muses on shifting Brooklynese speech as time passes.
Ottawa reports the government now boils old bank notes rather than burning them. Last year fifty million dollars in common notes were dumped into a vat and boiled to pulp for papermaking. Burning was abandoned as wasteful and risky due to scraps and chimney carryover.
Begin using the smart crochet set for spring now. Simple shell stitch creates contrast on hat brim and purse. Pattern 1132 includes directions, illustration, stitches, and material list. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Height Ave New York NY.
Torpedoes are not fired from battleships or submarines like other projectiles. Owing to their great weight they are propelled and controlled by their own mechanism with a compressed air engine depth control device and gyroscopic steering gear. The expensive machinery runs their cost up to about $10 000 apiece according to Collier's.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer describes Japanese typists coping with a keyboard of 2000 characters. Slugs in a sliding tray fit into individual compartments. Typists press a knob to select Katakana Hiragana signs, the metal arm inks and prints as the drum advances the letter.
Letter from Mrs Grace Bailey of Bronx New York describes relief from a spreading rash and blisters after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She notes quick improvement and urges others to buy or request free samples, with prices and mailing address included.
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