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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1925
Page
11
In a 1925 Western Newspaper Union feature Julia Bottomley notes lighter fabrics and simple cuts for hot days, contrasting modern clothes with revived colonial home accents. The piece highlights delicate frocks, two color dress schemes, and practical sports wear in crepe and silk, plus hooked rug crafting and old style interior decor.
A 1925 Western New article argues worry is the greatest enemy of long life, not Bright's disease or cancer. It explains annuities as a reverse of standard life insurance, where the insurer gains if you die early and loses if you live longer. Insurance officials say annuities and pensions remove fear, ensuring lifetime income for the insured.
A discussion outlines injuries across football baseball and other outdoor sports. It notes muscle ruptures and joint sprains especially to ankle wrist knee and shoulder with dislocations and fractures being rarer. Shoulder dislocations require rest for two weeks to allow ligaments to heal properly.
Tommy meets a white haired Old Man in a cave who calls WIND on a radio wind, granting him a bag of gold nuggets for a future generous act. The Old Man explains lessons about beauty, bravery, and sharing, then sends Tommy inside on hands and knees to retrieve the treasure after receiving a candle for his journey.
The fern leaf emblem was proposed for New Zealand at a Wellington banquet honoring the All Blacks. It suggested stamping the emblem on exports after the rugby team carried the fern around the world. The proposal appeared in the Family Herald. Cuticura remedies pitched for baby skin care with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum advertised.
Dr John M Clarke New York state geologist and paleontologist declares a grove near Gilboa New York to be the oldest forest known, dating a hundred million years ago. He identifies fossil remains resembling modern tree ferns, possibly reaching fifty feet in height.
An advertisement touts Drmeerys Dead Shot as a cure to expel ms or Tapeworm with a single dose, urging readers to try it at 372 il St. N. Y. Ady.
Canadian tobacco production in Ontario and Quebec last year reached 18,710,740 pounds. Ontario produced 12,185,000 pounds and Quebec 6,575,740 pounds, with a total yield valued at 4,358,898 dollars. Acres planted totaled 21,317 yielding an average 878 pounds per acre.
An old advertisement urges treating an inactive liver with Bond's Liver Pills. It claims the remedy is prescription strength for the liver and can cure headaches biliousness dizziness and all liver troubles. The bottle is priced at 25 cents.
A medieval remark from 1427 profiles a renowned female player named Margaret who played forehanded and backhanded with power and craft, suggesting rackets were known in tennis before that year. The note highlights the historic value of the terms forehanded and backhanded in describing early play.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a man named Joseph Pfeiffer found a pickerel stuck in a slow water main while inspecting a leaking pipe in his cellar. He freed the fish with a pencil and noted the creature traveled five miles through the water system before ending up near his home.
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