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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
7
A humorous exchange promoting golf club membership pits a novice against a teasing prospect. A speaker asks why not join, the reply claims not knowing the game, and the punchline notes most members also lack mastery.
A vintage style ad promotes S S S blood purifier as the cure for rheumatism. It claims topical applications fail and urges cleansing the blood to remove pain. The notice cites Medical Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta and encourages getting a bottle from a drug store.
An old advertisement touts Bayer aspirin tablets as proven safe by millions and prescribed for over twenty years. It urges only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain sold in 12 tablet tins and larger packages by druggists.
A Sir Oliver Lodge remark on spiritualistic mediumship notes the next world is hard to handle. A boy’s fear about leaving his body is eased by a teacher’s explanation about taking only good things to the better land, prompting a dry quip from the boy.
A fragment suggests a person notes that if someone has no means of forgetting their trouble they will create more trouble. The line implies a cycle of distress driven by memory and response.
An advertisement touts Freckles Now as the time to remove freckles using a double strength product with a guaranteed result. It urges Cuticura Soap and Ointment daily for a clear complexion, clean scalp, and soft hands, plus Cuticura Talcum as the finishing trio.
The famous novelist recalls Munich as an earthly paradise where ten cents bought a quart of ambrosial beer and two frankfurters in a beer garden with Wagner and Beethoven playing by a grand orchestra. He cites a Missouri student Cobb who ordered multiple frankfurters, causing merry confusion among waiter and manager. A Fair Stack notes someone keeping about 3,000 kinds of popular magazines.
Meredith supports accepting invitation from foreign nations for the United States to join the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses. The American Association of State Highway Officials executive committee recommended to the secretary of agriculture that Congress authorize acceptance and invite the association to hold its next meeting in the United States.
Secretary Meredith enlarges the advisory committee of state highway officials by adding the entire executive committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials. The expanded panel aims to represent all regions and to classify roads for a unified national road program. The group also inspected a grade crossing safety signal device and discussed securing needed equipment with the War Department’s sales director.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap, painless remedy to lift off hard or soft corns between toes. A tiny bottle is sold at drugstores and claims to relieve pain after a few drops are applied. The piece ends with a humorous exchange about clockmaking and shop strikes.
Advertisement for Kilmer and Co sample bottle proclaims many suffer kidney trouble unseen. The Indianapolis News notes a church scene where a new minister condemns profanity and a girl jokes she knows all the words.
A severely ill resident of Wyandotte recounts extreme pain and inability to eat, describing days of suffering when doctors could not help and expressing in a personal plea that she could no longer endure the pain.
The newly formed roads council brings together 23 business and civic groups to educate residents within a 100 mile radius of St Louis about the benefits of road improvements. The effort aims to raise awareness and support for better infrastructure.
A report notes road deterioration drives up haulage expenses, with food shipments costing up to half a billion dollars annually nationwide. The article argues bad roads add over a dollar per person daily in the United States, stressing transportation costs.
The article argues roads knit town and country, noting the farm depends on the town while the town relies on the country. It stresses highways as crucial transport during emergencies and highlights the war’s revealed importance of rural access to cities.
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