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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
5
The readable portion mentions medical products and quantities but lacks clear subjects or outcomes. It resembles a disjointed advertisement with stray phrases about medicines and measurements. No identifiable people, dates, or organizations are present.
Hardware Department features iron fittings and horse shoes large immigrant kettles and brass ware. Stock includes bake iron implements, stair spidows, American fence wire, wire, saws, black mountain hovers, lawn mowers.
A jumbled OCR fragment lists paint and oil department items including Kay and Bored Linseed Oil Harness Oil Machine Oil Black Staap Tur and various plastering and portlar related terms. The text appears to be a damaged catalog or preparation note intended for immediate use.
Distorted OCR recounts strict Sunday observance in England from medieval times to Victorian era, noting fines, imprisonments, and refusals to attend church. It cites Hebraic communities and notable cases like a Tewe rsbury Jew and a Sunday fine of one shilling, with quotes on enforcement and religious duty.
Thomas A. Edison predicts motion pictures will replace textbooks in schools nationwide. He envisions a Washington built film library, rental to institutions, and 1 cent per pupil to cover costs. He argues eye learning equals direct reality and expects high attendance as classrooms become movie shows.
The muskrat diet includes brasses apples buckeye trees water plants carrots turangs cabbage corn and crayfish. Traps are set three or four feet below water in known lairs to snare retreating muskrats as they exit water, with homes large and grass filled. The young depend on the mother for food during early weeks.
The French government has arranged to bring back into cultivation the desolated war farm areas recaptured from the enemy. The dense population of France requires prompt agricultural restoration to ease the food situation. Preference will be given to farmers who originally lived in the invaded regions.
A garbled wartime snippet shows misheard lines about soldiers and a mother’s fate, with exaggerated dialect and unclear context. The fragment hints at deception, fear, and distant chatter about casualty counts amid a wartime setting. The text is fragmentary and stylistic, not a clear event.
Miss F Louis Grove of Washington County High School Hagerstown won the district prize in a Maryland contest for the essay What are the benefits an enlistment in the United States Army judged by a panel including Victor Kar man and General Henry Warfield. The essay promotes pay, education, housing and general military life as benefits and will be forwarded to Washington for national judging with three national prizes awarded.
Shepherdstown residents report relief from kidney trouble after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs Rutherford of Washington Street cites dramatic improvement after trying the remedy found at Hill's Pharmacy. The ad urges purchase for 60 cents or $1.50 at Foster Milburn Co Mera Butte Chili4 Fr.
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