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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1918
Page
7
A vintage ad promotes Freezone for corns and calluses with minimal cost and no pain, claiming instant relief and easy removal by lifting with fingers. It touts a Cincinnati genius behind the product and urges readers to buy from a druggist.
An old advertisement-style excerpt touts a lamp guiding eye examination via mouth illumination and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal action through mucous surfaces and offers a ten dollar reward for incurable catarrh cases. Ends with testimonial notes and a comic dialogue fragment.
A fragmented 1920s style health notice urges March and April health regain through outdoor activity. It links confinement indoors to run down condition, loss of ambition, and the need to keep the liver active and exercise. It promotes Dr Pierre's Beneten medical tonic tablets as a suggested remedy.
The Tornea river freezes as smugglers flood into Haparanda Sweden from Russia and Finland. Sledges haul tex, coffee, rubber and sugar bound for Sweden where they fetch high prices. Frontiers, champagne breakfasts, and a lively frontier town scene define a booming illicit trade amid war era tensions.
Madison Wis I m going to fi wark to Berlin where you came train dad and drop a bomb near your old home Lloyd A Lehr bass a student in the journalists course at the State University informed his father he had enlisted in the aviation service of the United States Army The father replied God bless you son Am proud of you Lehrbaas father born in Berlin came to America with his parents at age four
Helena resident Mrs. W. C. Almon age 73 visits her son W. S. Almen Jr. in Fairfield Montana. Her family served in four wars from Mexican War to Civil War and Spanish War and aviation corps call. She remains active knitting and supporting the war effort.
Private Ivey Cleveland of the Twelfth company Third battalion One Hundred and Sixty fifth Depot brigade Camp Travis departs Brazos Horton with an honorable discharge after wearing No 14 brogans that could not be replaced by smaller sizes. Officers tried to fit him with No 12 shoes but failed. The Army officer’s test was deemed too costly.
Chicago engineers unveil three giant machines for munitions production. A concrete and iron planing planet, a long boring gun machine, and a rapid shell turning lathe together promise record speeds. Each unit costs about 55000 dollars, with plans to deploy multiple units to meet demand. The inventor, Luelen J Yeomans, is a Cleveland relative, and the gear aims to boost output for American and Allied artillery.
The junior class at the University of California selects a female yell leader. Marion Sutton wins by more than double the votes of the male candidate, a historic break with precedent. J. F P. White reports that many clan men pushed him down at the polls.
Connecticut assigns road maintenance to a superintendent of repairs. The state is split into ten districts with supervisors near district centers. Each district has sections led by foremen responsible for work under ordinary conditions.
The article describes continuous road maintenance crews in each section, with ten to fifteen men assigned under a foreman for emergency work. Gangs are regularly transferred between locations, under different foremen for short periods to ensure proper upkeep of the roads.
Virginia legislature grants a charter to the Warrenton and Fairtax Turnpike Company to take over the old Alexandria Warren ton pike. The firm will grade resurface operate as a toll road until the state reclaims it. If the state takes back the road stockholders receive cost plus interest minus dividends.
If drainage is addressed along the road drag line, you can read a better road condition. After each van, treat the stretch from your gateway toward town to your holdings length, and you will be surprised and gratified by the improvement. You may even spur neighbors nearby to do the same.
The new concrete highway between Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, recently opened as a 40 mile boulevard. The Ontario premier announced this as the first step in a broader plan for an improved highway system across the province. Work will begin after the war ends.
The article argues that quality roads enable better schools by enabling consolidation, allowing spacious buildings and more competent teachers. It asserts communities with good roads gain facilities and teachers at lower costs, advocating investment in infrastructure to improve education.
Plan size of culvert based on water load, not less than linch pipe. Determine culvert side and structure by careful investigation. Feed calf skim milk if abundant skim milk. feed six to eight months.
Oregon woman recounts relief after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a debilitating condition that left her unable to work. She notes the product aided her recovery and enabled her to resume farm duties, urging others to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for similar help.
A Yonkers Statusman quip feature presents a breakfast tableau with a thin boarder, a paper napkin, and a series of riddle punchlines. Characters include a tough soldier, a con clerk with a rose, a lady schoolteacher, and a bank clerk as they trade foils about elephants and microbes and daily curiosities. The humor plays on misdirection and everyday objects.
Ten mules can move about two tons in ten hours while a tractor hauls 25 tons and travels 20 miles in the same period. The piece ponders fear of exposure and respect for village standing, and notes a rich widow makes a poor investment when she marries.
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