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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
5
An offer entices readers with a combined annual subscription to The Review and The Kansas City Star for one dollar. The Star is described as a 12 page weekly, seven column paper with farmer‑oriented content. Subscriptions are encouraged immediately as the promotion continues for a limited time.
Norfolk Southern Railway issued a new schedule effective August 24 between Raleigh and Norfolk. The night express will save about forty five minutes with no freight cars in the consist. The Norfolk train arrives 6 30 am, sleepers may stay until 7 30 am, and Raleigh departure moves to 9 30 pm. Edenton will host a fifteen minute daytime stop for meals.
A vintage advertisement urges run down women to try Vinci cod liver and iron tonic without oil to restore appetite, strengthen digestion, and build blod. Testimonial from Mrs Walter Price of Biloxi Mississippi claims recovery after months of ineffectual medicines. Money back guarantee offered. Saxo Salve also promoted. Matton Drug Company High Point.
An English physician, Doctor Mc Dougal, argues laughter evolved as an antidote to sympathy and boosts health by increasing circulation and respiration. He notes babies smile early, but do not laugh until months old, challenging views that smiling is merely early risibility. He concedes laughter is often sympathetic and imitative, not a universal rule to laugh at others.
The Woodbury Reporter recalls that a sneeze can be suppressed by nose pressure, but argues the act is nature’s helpful reflex. It notes sneezes expel foreign dust and potentially harmful germs, which may spread to others.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review notes early criticism of the mothers' pension law as burdensome to counties and prone to fraud claims, but argues such paternal measures invite scrutiny of public generosity and are not the law's fault.
Miss Caro line G. Ewen leaves 1000 to every cat on Madeira Island, part of a 200000 estate made to animal charities. John Ewen, nephew, contests the will, seeking testimony in London to show some named beneficiaries may not exist. Surrogate Cohalan reserved his decision.
In a brief exchange from the New York Evening Post a visitor asks Lucy where she was born. She answers that all of her was born in New York, delivering a humorous moment in a child’s candid reasoning.
Rail schedule from Raleigh to Fayetteville and intermediate towns detailing trains arrivals and departures. It lists daily and Sunday exceptions with times for Raleigh Fayetteville Mt Gilead Asheboro Star Lillington Varina Duncan and Raleigh connections, plus agent contact info for further details.
Announcement from Raleigh Charlotte and Southern Railway dated 1913 states completion of a connecting link between Varina and Colon with through passenger service to Raleigh terminal and major stops. New stations include Duncan Corinth Rosser Colon, with service to Aberdeen Hallison Asheboro Carthage Candor Ellerbe Troy Mt Gilead Star Biscoe Pinehurst. Apply to agents for schedules.
A compact pitch for a 12 page Kansas City Star weekly plus an eight page Review edition priced at $1.00. Subscribers can save by paying one year in advance, with the ad offer highlighted to entice new and renewing readers.
Queen Sophia of Sweden aged 77 died today in Stockholm from lung inflammation. A Nassau princess, she married King Oscar II in 1887 at Wiesbaden and had been largely invalid for over 25 years. Also notes J S Carr not an active gubernatorial candidate and price retention of The Review at one dollar per year.
Schedule in effect October 14 1913 shows times trains may arrive or depart at listed stations but departure or arrival at the stated time is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice.
A period piece discusses onion oil and spices as remedies for colds. It cites Dr Haig on three factors for colds, notes pneumonia risk, and describes onion’s antiseptic effects on microbes. It also mentions Dr Alfred Gigon classifying spices and a Berlin stairway conversation about umbrellas.
A heroic fireman stands at a burning seventeenth story window with a fainting woman in his arms as flames and smoke engulf the building. Bystanders urge him to descend while policemen restrain the crowd and terms of a delayed exit unfold on scene.
A High Point testimony urges use of Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble. Mrs. H Clapp says backache dizziness and head pains improved after taking the pills. Sold by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
High Point customers with stomach or bowel trouble are told Adler-i-ka, a buckern bark based cleanser, is a single dose remedy touted to relieve sour stomach gas and constipation quickly. Matton Drug Co advertises the preparation as a famous curative.
Advertises Leap's Prolific seed wheat re cleaned Appler Oats and Red Multiplyer Onion sets from W L Kivett. Includes a promotional note about a gold plated scissors giveaway guaranteed by the manufacturer.
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