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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
4
A garbled advertisement and a comic slice of life from the Boston Globe features quips about misquotation as fame. It touts remedies Hicks Capucine for summer headaches and a miscellaneous parade of odd names and a Lake Chargogogmanchauggaughauggauogansett area fishing scene near Worcester.
An article touts affordable sulphur baths by Hancock's Sulphur Compound for skin benefits and mentions infant use in warm water. It also describes the bladderwort aquatic plant that traps worms and fish with air bladders and a hinged door, explaining its feeding mechanism.
A motor car strikes a stump and a rear seat passenger, a portly lady, sails into the air and lands beside the road. She reports no broken bones but shows a lump. A stern constable vows to arrest the reckless riders, as the judge presides.
At a New York luncheon De Wolf Hopper joked about a troubling actor. He recalled Phatt leaving Hamlet after a short tour saying hints advised against the stage. Hopper quips that the critics would hatch into little birds if given the chance.
A detailed vignette of American life in Panama's Canal Zone covers daily routines, social life, markets, housekeeping challenges, and racial dynamics. It notes mid day siestas, local markets with Jamaican workers, leaf ant invasions, cockroach issues, sanitation limits, and social clubs like Tivoli and Y M C A. It explains social tensions, influence of “pull,” and the likely return home after canal completion.
Editorial notes railroads defend underpaying for mail handling as a social obligation and argue compensation is unjustly low. It cites a $15,000,000 annual shortfall and seeks a fair government payment for services rendered. Also reports on seven grades of commercial corn standards and related international loan rumors, plus a sponge fertilizer study in Florida.
The Treasury Department began depositing 50 million dollars with banks in agricultural states to aid crop movement. Initial deposits were in Southern reserve cities including Baltimore Richmond Atlanta and Memphis with Atlanta and Memphis each receiving 750000. Diversion of funds followed a department apportionment report. Demands That Protection be Offered Washington Senator Penrose urged Secretary Bryan to warn Provisional President Huerta and General Carranza that the US will hold them personally responsible for any harm to Americans in Chihuahua amid revolutionary threats. Shirley C Hulse and his family are among 46 Americans in the threatened group.
A short mused caption from Lippincott's humor section notes a parent reacting to their child growing up, teasing with a sheepish grin as the parent calls the boy their little lamb.
An old newspaper fragment markets No. SIXTY-SIX as a malaria remedy with five to six doses claimed to prevent fever recurrence, plus a tonic claim. It also promotes Hicks Capucine a liquid headache remedy with immediate effects and a money back guarantee, available in 10c 2c and 50c sizes.
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