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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1921
Page
4
A vivid travelogue by A. Anderson in Travel recounts an inn scene in the Chinese province of Chin. The chow room features large clay stoves and rice wine stored in clay baskets, with foods from steamed mussels to tender meat and crackling shrimp, served piping hot at low tables.
Shepherdstown testimony from J F Waldeck, stone mason, High Street, praises Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney complaints and backache. He notes irregular kidney action and severe back strain from work, claiming the remedy consistently relieves pain. Sold at Hill's Pharmacy for 60 cents, Buffalo, N Y.
A story from a London Morning Post note describes a new soldier encountering an officer of the day who threatens to shoot after three halts. A rural parish vicar, famed for fungi knowledge, often skipped pastoral duties for specimens, once joked about a toadstool delaying his list calls. Dean's Ointment advertised for skin itchiness and rashes.
New Orleans advances a 5 mile long Industrial Canal linking the river to Lake Pontchartrain at a fixed level. The project includes a massive concrete lock, dredging, and a drainage system to reclaim lakeshore for residential and industrial growth.
Billy Sunday addresses Confederate veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy in Bluefield. He praises Southern religion and womanhood, claims the South holds purer American blood, and questions why the North won the Civil War, saying they fought real Americans in Virginia West Virginia Tennessee and Kentucky mountains.
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages and strengthens constitution through internal blood action. It offers $100 to any case not cured, invites testimonials, and lists FP J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as suppliers at 75 cents.
Just before St Mihiel the Germans exploded an ammo dump near a Yankee company. A large cache of gas shells was believed present. Americans fled the area then returned after the danger passed. One man reappeared only the next day, saying he had spent the day trying to get back.
An old advertisement touts Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil as cheap accident insurance for burns and emergencies. It claims the remedy cures or helps skin injuries and lists availability at druggists and a yearly subscription through Abe and My to the Register.
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