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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
2
Moe Turman of Brooklyn, once a famed boy financier, was arrested for swindling and forgery after a decade of borrowing, pyramiding debts, and accruing obligations totaling about 1,300,000 dollars with a bank balance of only 14 dollars.
In Austin Friday Representative T. K. Irwin won support for open hearings in the prison probe with a House vote of confidence and a directive to keep hearings public. The day featured multiple bills advancing including real estate broker licensing and automobile registration fee changes while witnesses were examined in the joint prison inquiry.
The New York telephone system handles vast usage with over a million instruments. In 1923 an average of 18,570 toll calls daily kept New Yorkers connected nationwide, while current totals reach about 6,200,000 calls daily. Every phone in the city is used on average about five times per day.
Advertisement urges buyers to check for the Bayer name on aspirin packages or tablets to ensure genuine, claiming Bayer Aspirin has been proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 23 years. It warns that imitators may be dangerous and instructs customers to say Bayer when purchasing.
The Gypsy language, not normally a written tongue, has been printed this autumn for political campaign use in Slavic characters. Most words are unintelligible to Slavic speakers, but political terms appear in Slavic. An agrarian document in Romany cites Stamboulisky’s push to enfranchise Gypsies, halted by the democratic union ending his regime.
At the first sign of colds fevers and flu like symptoms the advertisement urges taking a Bond's Liver Pill at bedtime. It claims direct action on the liver to cleanse the system of germs and impurities and prevent complications. Price is 25e at drug stores.
A traditional belief links birds behavior to upcoming weather. The rhyme notes that fowls rolling in sand signal rain, hens feather trimming signals rain, skylarks flying high indicate fair weather, and diving low predicts wet days.
A vintage advertisement urges soaking hands in Cuticura Soap, drying and rubbing in Cuticura Ointment, and removing surplus ointment with tissue paper. It touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum for all toilet purposes as a single solution.
Sam claims to make a great deal more money than he spends while Dan asks how. Sam explains he works in the mint. The ad promotes Dr Peery's Dead Shot as a one dose medicine to expel worms or tapeworm.
A proposal suggests painting town names in large letters on railway station roofs to guide airmen. The exchange includes a witty remark about a clever dog and a commentary on intentions unravelling when they begin to fray.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is promoted as helping women with weakness backache and nervousness. Mrs Mabel LaPoint of Turtle Lake Wisconsin cites long use before and after childbirth and Liver Pills for constipation. A canvass claims 98 of 100 women benefited from the Vegetable Compound.
A reflective note warns that initial looks can mislead and urges careful consideration beyond what is visible to the eye. The author underscores the perils of snap judgments and promotes measured assessment of people and situations.
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