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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
3
A testimonial from Mrs. Harry A. qusen of Clearfield Pennsylvania claims the product relieved monthly pains fever dizziness and fatigue after childbirth. The letter asserts the remedy restores health and urges prompt use to preserve comfort and happiness.
Joe Guffey, nephew of Col. James M. Guffey, saw his oil empire collapse as Tidewater Oil, a Standard Oil subsidiary, gained control of the Guffey Gillespie group. Facing hefty loans and a bear market, he poured in funds to prop stock, but lenders called in favors and receivership followed as Tidewater moved to reorganize.
In Nebraska a dying woman fails to reach a doctor due to flooded South Platte River bridges. Dr. Selby at North Platte, two miles away, cannot cross the river and has called other towns for help.
Dutch scientist Dr A Pannekeck reports a colossal celestial gas cloud in Taurus with a mass 20,000,000,000 times that of the sun. He claims the object dwarfs most universe estimates and dominates our view of the heavens.
Dr Selby learns the post office is being humanized and convinces air mail manager C A Sluder to fly him across the river to reach a dying woman. Sluder agrees to fly first with authority to follow, saving the Nebraska farmhouse resident.
John Shebee a 67 year old man in Chicago reportedly found an elixir of youth. Before the dose he walked with a limp and showed signs of senility. After one dose he hopped a speeding street car outran a flivver and stood on his car while crowds impeded him. Detective Sergeants Bierndt and Janaczak observed him at Western Avenue and Madison Street requesting a carfare quarter.
Bierndt pursues an elderly thief named Shebee who escapes by car and by hopping streets, leaping onto a streetcar, then eluding police briefly before being captured. He is found with twenty $1 bills and about $5 in coins and jokes about entering him in the Indianapolis sweepstakes.
Paris reports rising tourist discontent over high prices driven by profiteers and hotel lodging charges. Officials urge publicity and retail rate disclosures to curb extortion while noting apartments sale of furnished space at 300 to 1000 percent higher rents than prewar levels.
The wool clip for western Canada is put at about 5 million pounds. Alberta is projected at 2.2 million pounds, near last year. Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Columbia together should add around 3 million pounds to the total.
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy plans to erect a 30,900 dollar house in New York to house thousands of white rats used in its biological research. The building will be dedicated entirely to rodent housing for experimental work.
Dodson’s Liver Tone advertised as a vegetable, gentle liver remedy that replaces calomel. The promotion warns calomel is dangerous causing cramps, biliousness, and salivation, urging readers to choose the safer, non Gibbs prodotto for adults and children.
A brick slips from a bricklayer on a scaffold and strikes his fellow worker on the head. The injured man dances and groans while the other taunts him saying the blow was brief. The report from the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph notes the grim humor amid the accident.
The ad urges taking only genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross and following physician dosages learned over 21 years. It claims safety from millions and lists conditions such as colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain. It notes small tin boxes of twelve tablets cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists.
Dr John Constas of Georgetown University Hospital presents a stone theater ticket to President Harding. The artifact, likely from early Grecian drama, bears a gorgon head on one side and a fox head on the reverse, believed to be of Athenian origin.
An advertise line promotes Llen’s Foot Ease antiseptic powder for shoes that relieves foot pain including bunions blisters and sore spots. It claims quick comfort cool feet and longer shoe life. The copy also muses on foolishness and public displays of affection.
Mrs. W. H. Person says Eatonic relieves gas acidity and improves appetite and strength after meals. The ad claims many stomach ailments disappear when the stomach is right and urges readers to take Hatonic tablets after eating with a druggist's guarantee.
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