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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
3
A New York inventors patent introduces a device to help a blind person thread a needle. The implement addresses a long standing challenge and promises practical use for those with visual impairment.
The Nation prints a Washington DC-based piece praising prohibition. Officials, charity workers, and Salvation Army leaders report fewer drunks and better welfare under dry laws, while liquor distributors shift to new, legal livelihoods and celebrate prohibition as a national benefit.
A party of Eastern bankers chaired by N H Loomis of the Union Pacific gathered at the Omaha club during a Nebraska Bankers association convention. Seven of twelve glasses on the table remained untouched as Loomis and others explained they never drank alcohol, many tracing this to being born and bred in Kansas.
Members of the legislative committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers representing 28,000 engineers unanimously adopt a resolution urging the Minnesota assembly to ratify the federal prohibition amendment. A Keeley Institute in Omaha had recently supported similar efforts.
An 19th century advert promises Green's August Flower cures for stomach disorders and liver inactivity including headaches constipation sour stomach and indigestion. It claims to purify blood and stimulate bile, with bold boasts of global acceptance and a testimonial about responsibility and a misdirected pet scene.
A fragment imagines Nurelasux pining away from vanity and lacking meals or sleep. The dialogue jokes that living in modern times would not help him, suggesting he could still profit as a movie dol from self-adoration.
An old advertisement promotes a lemon based skin lotion made from juice of two fresh lemons mixed with three ounces of orchard white to yield about a quarter pint. It claims to whiten soften and beautify skin including face neck hands and arms and to be inexpensive. The ad also mentions Cuticura products and a novelty mention of a new invention a coating gun for cutting lines farther than by hand.
A man asks Ethel to marry him but she has found someone she likes more. She gently declines, noting others have turned him down previously as he fights tears and awkward pauses in the exchange.
A jumble of quoted lines reveals a stiff social exchange about marriages and propriety. The speakers discuss attentiveness to daughters and caution in parlor signals, hinting at reputations and timing in conversations. The patchwork dialogue suggests a broader theme of discretion versus talkativeness among men.
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