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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
8
A noted medical claim describes calomel as a mercurial remedy that salivates the user and acts on a sluggish liver. The text warns of cramps and nausea when calomel meets sour bile, portraying it as a dynamite like reaction.
An advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable liquid that safely stimulates the liver without the sickness or salivation caused by calomel. It claims all ages can take it, promises relief from biliousness constipation and headaches, and urges customers to try it with a money back guarantee if it fails to act better than calomel.
A Washington dinner scene features a lady scolding Bolsheviks for allegedly selling clothes off women's backs. Senator Johnson of California smiles as all gowns appear decollette. A remark suggests Bolsheviks would not find much to sell at a fashionable dinner party. An unrelated medical ad follows.
In a barber shop overheard talk, a customer reveals Bill has cancer and must be operated on, though he initially hesitated. A barber offers free shave or haircut and to cover costs if needed, after advising hospital treatment.
In a playful dialogue Senator Sorghum notes the “half a vote” in a convention. The piece cites past elections where one person cast multiple votes. It contrasts with the idea that dueling did not exist in ancient Greece or Rome.
A brief ad touts Danderine promising few cents buys. after use no dandruff feathers fallen hair shows new life brightness color and thickness.
A husband and wife at a county fair seek the women's exchange to barter fancy work. An onlooker remarks loudly about the wife, praising her looks and warning the husband not to take action, reflecting a period attitude from Ladies' Home Journal.
Mr. C. B. Leats of Lay Maryland reports severe nervous spells and heart pressure eased within a half hour after taking one box of Eatonic. He says four specialists failed to help but Eatonic stopped the symptoms and removed poisons and gases from his body. The ad urges readers to try Eatonic with a money back guarantee from the druggist.
A Louisville Courier Journal remark describes bootleg activity shifting to air travel, with sly slang about moonshine being transported by planes as prohibition enforcement continues. The crack insinuates improvised routes and daring contraband moves amid 1920s era illegal liquor trade.
The phrase suggests a moralizing claim that control over men's actions is linked to the idea of a wife being named differently. It presents a linguistic note rather than a clear event or person, reflecting a definitional or cultural aside.
Washington reports Soviet forces crossed south and west of the Caspian Sea threatening Tehran. Officials see aim at challenging British and French Near East control, with allied powers weighing steps to check Moscow. White House and State Department held talks with President Wilson on Poland crisis.
Five destroyers patrol Miami harbor under President Wilson orders to stop landing of a Western Union cable from Barbados. The Colonial, a British cable ship, was chartered to land the American end connecting to a Barbados to South America line. State Department says landing would violate American law. issue tied to pending International Communications Congress in Washington.
Fort Worth ice dealers who raised the price to 70 cents per hundred three weeks ago were ordered by United States District Attorney Taylor to reduce it to 60 cents by Tuesday or face prosecution. Taylor said the increase was not justified by operating costs.
Resolutions urged all U S cities to adopt rat proofing laws and start general cleanup campaigns. Dr. Hugh S. Cummings, surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, attended the Beaumont Texas gathering of health officials from across the nation.
First Lieutenant Harry L. Weddington led a De Havilland 4 B airplane through three cloud layers at Kelly Field San Antonio Texas and established a world passenger carrying altitude record of 19070 feet.
An early note from the Albany Journal remarks that idle curiosity, ironically, keeps a busy mind at work. The saying frames idle thought as a productive force in daily life.
The article describes two formal dresses designed for women, featuring satin veiled with chiffon, embroidered net bands, and ribbon accents. It highlights color options in sapphire blue brown and black, simple graceful outlines, and decorative details such as satin ribbons, embroidered ornaments, and a cream hat with ostrich plume.
Plaiting motifs such as knife plaits box plaits and accordion plaits shape new fall skirts. Designers embrace varied fabrics from plain to striped adding features like pressed plaits and side buttons with decorative straps and machine stitching.
In Cumberland Maryland during a game between Connellsville Independents and Wilkinsburg Stank, a spike on Stank’s shoe cut George Miller’s right hand finger. Miller tried to stop a ball with his bare hand as Herrod pitched and struck the spike, severing the finger at the first joint.
Umpires become targets as players shine with bat and ball in the latest circuit moves. Dave Robertson hits .320 while Chicago White Sox fans dream of a World Series run. Pittsburgh gains a solid catcher in Bill Haeffner. Doyle praises his best days. Transfers, signings, and injuries ripple through the minors and majors, naming McQuade, Lefty Groves, and several club changes.
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