Red Cross Ball Line Ad Promises Double Value
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Line as delivering double value for money, claiming products go twice as far as competing items and urging readers to ask their grocer about the offer.
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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
3
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Line as delivering double value for money, claiming products go twice as far as competing items and urging readers to ask their grocer about the offer.
A Times survey notes royal tipping practices with King Edward and the Kaiser lavishly rewarding servants during visits. It cites daily gratuities, including $1600 for weekend stays and $5 to $25 per staff, with envelopes distributed by a chief steward and even stable workers remembered.
Village chatter notes Nhear Wigley built his wealth through cigar manufacturing. His primary fortune came from a subsidiary paper factory. The town gossip keeps busy, never taking holidays.
A wife details coffee’s harms and her eventual switch to Postum after a physician advised cessation. She notes improved health and a husband who, after seeing her color and vitality, starts drinking Postum too. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum with preparation tips and the slogan There’s a Reason.
Brief items from Nebraska report concerns over water problems in unnamed locations, a new Allance Christian church dedication, rising wolf numbers north of York, a Gage county fruit growers meeting in Beatrice, and several local incidents including a man struck by a train in Hampton who died, a state water works bond vote in Morrill, a Christmas charity ball in Fremont, and a series of accidents and civic notes across towns like Deshler, Benkelman, and Lincoln.
A compact digest notes 1912 events and figures: 100000+ return to Naples from the U S, 4 3 billion in U S pensions since 1866, Illinois child labor law sustained by Washington Supreme Court, politics and diplomacy in Washington and New York, immigration and literacy bills, President Wilson’s holiday plans, Edison era life, naval buildup under Secretary Daniels, rail fines under Hepburn law, a murdered professor identified near Concord, Alaska resource developments, labor union structure, public lands classification, indictments in Fargo, senate confirmation for Hawthorn governor, new labor arbitration charter in Kansas City, anti strike stance by a new labor group, naval construction suspension proposal, and efforts to locate Arctic explorer Earnest DeKoven Leffingwell.
A mosaic of early twentieth century items covers politics economics and exploration. notes include Bulgaria's king in Austria vicinity. Colombia's congress adjourns without tariffs. Glenn Martin's 9 800 foot flight from Los Angeles to Santa Ana. a German British trade bill. a rifle match score. Syracuse mayor McGuire in Puerto Rico. a NYC YMCA fundraising surpassing 4 million. Chicago election judges party allegiance. wireless signals across oceans. a Vineland centenarian. German diamond marketing limits. St Louis saloon restrictions. Pacific coast historical association meeting. Manchuria cave temples. Rabago suicide after Vic toria loss. tobacco trust inquiry. German tuberculosis decrease. northern Mexico rebel control. Holland potato flour rise. Roosevelt in Valparaiso. the world’s largest oil carrier launched at Jarrow.
Commissioner Harmon's office witnessed a deadly struggle in sweet potatoes infested with organisms found during a South Omaha food inspection. Canned sardines and sweet potatoes were recalled as inspectors await the chemist's report. Across 108 accidents under a new law, three were fatal including a lineman, a railway worker, and a broom factory employee in Lincoln. Omaha Gas and Electric saw most incidents. rail workers few. Time losses from accidents were noted.
Briefs defending the juvenile court law, attacked in the supreme court by Wilbur F Bryant of Warrington, have been filed by Cedar County County Superintendent Miller. Attorneys for Miller challenge the claim that public policy can overturn law, arguing that public policy is the manifest of the state and part of the constitution.
After six weeks of deliberation the state banking board ruled that a new bank could not use the name First State Bank in Taylor because a long established bank already carried that title. The new institution must choose a different name. The state fire commission has arrested C EB Carpenter at Gothenburg after a year old residence fire and insurance collection alleged to exceed the value of the structure.
The state board of control awarded contracts for improvements at the Institute for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice. The total value of the contracts is 7443 dollars.
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