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Shepherdstown Register

Location

Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Nov 25, 1920

Page

4

The St Lawrence Project And Its Vast Potential

A study of St Lawrence navigation shows deep water routes linking the Great Lakes to world ports. Proposals plan two large dams with locks to allow seagoing ships to reach Chicago Detroit Cleveland and other cities, supplying power and boosting western trade while facing cross border opposition. The article notes potential economic gains and energy savings, with Canada and U S interests shaping the project.

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Perched on a Stool Office Ad Promotes Vitality Drink

An old advertisement touts Mangan as a daily energy booster for desk workers. It promotes MeptoMangan in liquid or tablet form and warns to buy the genuine Girde’s Peptn Mangan.

Fragmented excerpts mix wisdom from Beech er with gossip and oddities

The passage blends Henry Ward Beecher on Thanksgiving and a moral reflection with a jumble of notes about a Toyn telephone plan in Ohio, ancient Egypt inquiries, a Neagle joke at London Zoo, a quackless duck, and Burdock Blood Bitters ad copy, all presented in a garbled 19th century newspaper style.

Shy Henry Ward Beecher

Trials of a Schoolboy

A humorous schoolroom vignette where the boy Tommy Smith questions arithmetic by asking which way to take half of eight. The teacher becomes puzzled as Tommy explains half off the top yields zero, while half of it sideways equals three, highlighting innocent mischief.

Tommy Smith Tommy

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