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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1923
Page
3
Local notice invites customers to leave laundry at Proteau's barbershop for Bessemer Laundry service. The arrangement implies pickup and processing through the partner shop with standard turnaround.
An advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound for darkening gray or faded hair. It claims the formula, improved with extra ingredients, naturally darkens to glossy, luxuriant color after a few applications and can be applied with a brush or sponge.
The census bureau reports 2 482 591 000 pounds of soap made in the United States in 1919, about 1 216 295 tons. Based on population, each person averaged twenty two pounds of soap that year, with per person consumption rising about five pounds since twenty years prior.
True Detective Stories recounts Allan Pinkerton tracking Walter Eastman Sheridan, a genius crook who led a Baltimore bank raid and a string of major frauds. Sheridan evaded capture for years, returned to the United States, and was finally ensnared by Pinkerton's bait in Colorado before a Sing Sing sentence.
A 1923 crime tale follows Larry who leaves crime for Mary and the kid after a prison stint. He plans a daylight burglary then a furniture haul to fund a legit life, but greed grows. A storage deal yields enough to start anew, yet a trip to Mary ends in shock when they realize the wrong apartment was robbed.
Tommy goes for a pound and a half of fish but clerks weigh slightly more. The buyer asks if it’s okay, and the clerk replies to cut the tails off. The punchline notes the mother does not use them.
A playful exchange presents Pop defining flattery as others voicing good thoughts one already holds. Tommy asks for clarification, and Pop replies that flattery is simply others repeating one’s own favorable self-perception. The humorous vignette reflects family banter on self-regard.
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