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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
3
The Bayer Cross marks genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, prescribed for over eighteen years. Buy unbroken packages with clear directions for relieving colds, headaches, toothaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, and general pain. small tins offer twelve tablets at a low price.
An advertisement promotes S. S. S. as a vegetable blood medicine to cleanse and vitalize the bloodstream. It claims a sluggish blood supply leads to illness and cites global crises in China. Readers are urged to obtain a bottle and request free medical advice from the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
A fragmented reminiscence includes a long cited Castoria testimonial and a schoolyard anecdote about doors, a teacher’s patient correction of a noisy student, and a brief exchange where a visitor pretends to be a teacher. The piece closes with a quip about persuading a contrarian by arguing or joking.
A serifed ad claims soft velvety skin as the goal for women and asserts Tetterine clears pimples and blotches quickly. It notes the product is sold by druggists or mailed for 50 cents from Shoptrine Co., Savannah, Georgia.
A Youth's Companion reader recalls a three year old brother Joe who sighs and laments I feel so pitiful as he cries hard. The piece closes with a quip about love and a London Answers joke about a fool and a marriage proposal and a short horse joke.
Dutch government declines Entente demands against its constitution sparking diplomatic tension as negotiations stall and officials defend sovereignty amid ongoing international pressure.
Paris-Holland replies to the en tente demand for extradition of the emperor, saying she cannot be bound by a peace treaty to which she is not a party. She asserts Dutch constitution and tradition forbid acceding to Allied powers demands and vows to protect the trust placed in Holland and its free institutions.
Washington reports attacks on pending anti-sedition bills continued before the house rules committee and spread to the floor as Republicans and Democrats joined in opposition. Republican rules committee members charge that Attorney General Palmer side-stepped the issue.
More than 200 representatives of the National Editorial Association of the United States will tour eastern Canada including the maritime provinces next June after their Boston convention, starting the week of May 31.
Washington announces candidates designated for the March military academy entrance exams. Georgia Richard F. Willingham Kirkwood North Carolina Clayton C. Holmes Council William G. Bell Pineville John O. Cope Murphy listed among entrants.
Mexico City reports President Carranza has issued a decree allowing foreign oil firms to obtain provisional permits to drill new wells. The permits will remain valid only until a new petroleum law is enacted by Congress.
Boston firms William A. English and John O'Brien of English and O'Brien paid $1.6 million to settle a government suit after being sentenced last July to 19 months for conspiracy to defraud the government over income tax payments.
Secretary Daniels urged Congress to defer compulsory retirement for one year due to a shortage of naval officers. The 1916 law would have required rear admirals captains and other commissioned officers to retire upon reaching the age limit starting next July, delaying further promotions.
Washington report states the Pan American financial congress finished its sessions and adopted resolutions urging steps to boost trade with South America and to improve ocean, land telegraph, cable, wireless, and postal services. Most recommendations from Latin American groups were included in the committee report.
Washington Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, chairman of the naval decorations board, told a Senate investigating committee that the board could not agree officers who lost their ships to enemy action were entitled to high decorations unless they had engaged the enemy.
A clipped slice offers a quip about an election night and a home recipe for gray hair using bay rum mixed in water. The ad copy promises a cheap, non greasy dye that darkens gray streaks and softens hair, marketed as a simple home remedy with druggist availability.
A brittle dialogue pits a husband against his rival as ready wit sharpens a grim joke about happiness and marriage in what reads like a terse, stagey confrontation. The implied drama hinges on loyalty, loss, and social expectation in a wary moral tone.
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