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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1923
Page
2
The Spring Halley Gazette credits P. M. Mahoney as editor and manager. Subscription price is one year paid in advance by mail from Spring Valley Illinois.
The Ili nois Miner lauds Fred J. Kern editor of the Belleville News Democrat for denouncing the Ku Klux Klan in strong terms. The piece commends his courage in labeling the Klan as anti labor and anti American and calls on others to support editors who speak truthfully.
An editorial advocates cooperation over antagonism to sustain community life. It stresses diversity of thought, public discussion, and citizen judgment to choose the best path for collective interests, warning that cooperation fosters progress while division impedes it.
A letter argues towns thrive when residents buy locally and tradesmen support each other. It laments sending work abroad and urges a community code to keep commerce at home, noting low prices and mutual trust among merchants. It also critiques motorists use of bright lights causing night driving hazards and calls for proper headlight angles.
Women are urged to use Van Ess Liquid Scalp Massage to stimulate hair growth. The product features a patent rubber applicator with flexible nipples to deliver treatment to hair roots and promote blood circulation. A 90 day money back guarantee applies if it fails. Princeton Illinois store listing.
A Scottish laird and his servant Sandy ride home after drinking. In a ford the laird falls into the creek and misidentifies himself, prompting a strange rescue. Sandy misreads the horse and, after a tense moment, they realize the horse is headed the wrong way in the dark. The scene ends with the laird exclaiming as they begin to move.
A London Times correspondent reports that the Cree, wards of Canada, once 3,000 strong, now show signs of decline due to excess drinking and smoking, tuberculosis, and a weakened morale as they receive annual stipends. The piece portrays them as honest yet emotionally dependent, with fading cultural presence.
The Moon yields about nine to one more light at full than at half phase, due to changing reflection angles from rough lunar surfaces. Stebbins and Brown measured light with a selenium cell, noting greater brightness between first quarter and full than between full and last quarter.
A chairman of the Automobile association struggles with a balky car as onlookers watch. He vents in frustration until a sweet girl with golden hair and blue eyes intervenes with a sharp reply, stalling his outburst.
Barelegs, the Osage elder aged about 107 in Grayhorse Oklahoma, is the tribe’s oldest member. Despite a stooped frame and cane, he enjoys good health and joins all events including dances, wearing blankets and moccasins while riding a horse rather than a car.
Mrs. Fred Dreiver, head of the wom an's division in a Detroit real estate firm, argues that home ownership benefits families and communities more than investment in non taxable stocks. She criticizes apartments as filling due to men's reluctance for housework and urges young couples to seek their own home despite more work.
A newspaper editorial argues the home remains the central social center despite modern life. It notes complex entertainment options tempt away from the home but says the urge to own a home endures as a core instinct.
Barber shop owners in Lebanon Pennsylvania were invited to a chamber of commerce smoker to view their role in public discourse and city development. The event aimed to show barbers as informal forums for municipal questions and to promote service to the city without advancing chamber membership.
The St Louis Chamber of Commerce runs a sales managers bureau to boost city trade. It aims to grow sales territory through goodwill tours, better merchandising education, a weekly bulletin, hosting visiting buyers, and producing motion pictures.
Over the past two months several municipalities including Berkeley Chico Modesto Stockton San Mateo Santa Rosa Visalia Fla Kissimmee Fort Pierce Leesburg Orlando Albany Maywood St Johnsburg have adopted the city manager plan as part of local government reform.
A brief note stresses lawn care as the key element of curb appeal. It discourages slicing the yard with beds or shrubs and advocates keeping greenery to the sides.
The passage describes the 1822 English act against ill treatment of cattle, championed by Richard Martin known as Humanity Martin. It details opposition, his role as the first complainant, a donkey cruelty case, the creation of the SPCA, and Queen Victoria’s later Royal addition, noting American adoption of the model.
In Monterey County California prospectors find large gold nuggets suggesting pockets in small veins rather than large rich deposits. US geologist J M Hill reports that weathered surface pockets may yield such finds but deep mining is unlikely to uncover substantial veins. The California coast ranges are not typically gold rich, making giant nuggets a rare exception.
The Washington Star notes the “botanical ascents” of Mount Katahdin reveal how ascent reveals plant and tree succession as elevation changes. The piece argues climbers gain intellectual entertainment and natural companionship, aiding botanists geologists entomologists ornithologists and all nature students through rapid ecological variation.
A young Indianapolis widow marries a popular bachelor who resents her pride in past marriages. At a dinner the guest of honor denies being married yet boasts of three unions. The husband retorts that his name will be on her tombstone, asserting his hold over the union.
A nostalgic lyric invites readers to stroll two miles from Louisville to hear birds, a neighbor’s chanticleer, farm sounds, and distant calf bleats. The piece celebrates morning beauty from choking flowers to bone blanc air and rural scents.
Mrs Newlii questions delay in returning baby as Nursermaid explains the child enjoyed a lengthy ride, extending his arm at each corner to signal for a turn.
Burton Waite of Cherry has filed suit in circuit court seeking 1500 dollars for car damage from a June 24 collision on the Cherry eastwest road. Waite alleges Claude Cutler drove on the wrong side in reckless violation of state traffic laws and is responsible for the damage.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine promises relief from catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It includes an ointment for local inflammation and an internal tonic that acts on mucous surfaces through the blood, sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co.
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