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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
9
An old household ad touts Black-Draught as a trusted liver and stomach aid. It claims rapid relief for biliousness, sour stomach, headache, and indigestion, urging households to keep a dose on hand for quick response. Believed to purify the system and prevent further trouble.
A dense inventory of hardware items and farm supplies including nails, horse shoes, kettles, wires, saws, corn shellers, lawn mowers, bolts, oils, plastering materials, cement, oleos, soaps, pigments, and coatings. Also notes stock food, horse powders, harness dressings, and wall paper. Mentions heating and cooking gear and various pumps and buckets.
A passenger in a Bournemouth to London train loses his watch in sleep but learns at Vauxhall that his wife’s telegram confirms the watch is at home. A magistrate Sir James Ingham recounts a similar mistake and a thief posing as a messenger steals the watch.
A history of bachelor buttons or cornflower folklore and lore. It notes meanings celibacy healing uses eye wash and love magic. The tale links Cyanus and Flora with the blue bloom and relates an old nursery rhyme reference.
A quirky ad style snippet references a joke about being called lamb by a mother and a boy named Eddie. The text then shifts to a Dean's Regulars endorsement claiming gentle operation with no griping and no after effects, priced at 40¢ in drug stores.
A new exhibit at Roanoke College Library unveils a rare 15th century to present printing history collection, including a bookplate of Edwin Gibbon used by Constantine VII. The display aims to educate Salem and Roanoke residents and opens in September.
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