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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
6
A reader reports relief from dental pain and weak health after using Cardus, praising its potency and continued good results. The message claims many women suffered similar complaints and credit Cardus with improved wellbeing, urging others to try the product.
A muddled report describes two pilots landing in a village after a crash near the Gulf of Biscay and an Indian village attack. It mentions a chief, a friendly smile, and a gunfight scare, followed by a dubious Bible quotation debate and misattributed proverbs.
A passage from William Prescott’s The Conquest of Peru argues that civilization rests on visible symbols of thought enabling individual minds to connect with a wider community. It stresses that without such symbols, ideas are imprisoned and civilization cannot progress.
Prof Longley of Gouray College Baltimore has completed a set of thirty two underwater photographs of brilliantly colored tropical fishes in the Flawall waters. Taken with a special camera, he hopes to develop plates to reproduce natural colors. Plates have been packed for shipment to Baltimore for development.
A farmer extols Josh for his forgiving character, noting his return home as a hopeful, loyal act. The remark reflects praise of kindness and steady conduct within a rural setting, emphasizing family ties and communal values.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a garbled quote about a husband and a person who sweeps and peels, with references to Browning and Maguclia, lacking coherent context or clear entities or events. The readable portion hints at a domestic scene or dialogue but yields no verifiable facts, names, places, dates, or outcomes to summarize meaningfully.
In a rural Jefferson County memory the Reinhart schoolhouse beside the Potomac on the road to Moser’s Cross Roads served as the village hub for school, church, and social life. The piece recalls teachers like Harry Lee Moler and Matt Hendricks, a vibrant debating society, revival gatherings, and a close-knit community centered on Reed family outskirts, with Reinharts, Hollmans, Molers, Knotts, and Ranks shaping early life.
The ad extols Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a reliable remedy for catarrh, claiming thirty five years of use and blood-based action to expel poison and heal mucous membranes. It includes testimonials and a generic call to buy, with widespread distribution by F J Cheney & Co.
The Argonaut describes a colored infantry unit mustered out and the captain sends each man's home address to the Quartermaster for travel pay. A soldier named Jackson gave Prince Frederick Maryland as his home, which the quartermaster says does not exist, prompting bemused exchange. A quick digression features a joke about a cow bought with pay after a draft.
The undersigned offers a public sale at Wye ait farm two miles north of Charles Town West Virginia on Monday March 22 1920 at 1 30 oclock. Seventy headed stock including ten horses two milk cows twenty eight head of horses six broad sows and more to follow. Farm implements include wagons plows and drills. Terms credit 12 months on sums 10 and over cash under 10. Sale rain or shine conducted by John W Williams Chas T and Preston Engle auctioneers.
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