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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
4
A fragment notes that the first lunacy laws in England were created during the reign of Edward TL and adds a quip about Congress settling a strike and Garfield tea. The text mixes political satire with historical reference and lacks a cohesive event.
Drugstore reports show many Americans suffer kidney trouble without knowing it. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is praised for healing effects and high success. An insurer cites kidney disease as a common rejection reason. Sample offer and store availability noted.
An 80 year old Mrs John Hill reports sour stomach since grip that improved after a week on Eatonic. The ad claims Eatonic relieves indigestion heartburn bloating and distress by removing excess acidity and gases. Batonic is offered as further relief with a money back druggist guarantee.
The 1920 Chicago International Live Stock show drew praise for progress and international spirit. Canada claimed 25 prizes in hard spring wheat, with J C Mitchell of Cahinda Saskatchewan winning sweepstakes. Lucas of Cayley Alberta won best grown outs with 49.2 lb bushel and led from 160 acres to nearly 1000.
A compact critique frames American politics as a system of rolling logs and wired manipulation, suggesting entrenched, behind the scenes networking shaping outcomes.
An advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross and claims tested dosage guidance by physicians over 21 years. It urges using genuine Bayer Tablets for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain and notes tin boxes of twelve and larger packages sold by druggists.
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as a natural remedy for constipation without drugs. A side note warns about encountering a sharp man dulling confidence in humanity.
Comrade Beck of Chicago sports a beard over eight feet long. He has never used hair tonic or shown the beard in public exhibitions. Beck works as a mechanic and keeps the beard tucked under his vest during work hours.
A survey of assorted notes covers the cucumber as a tropical origin, an automatic control for electrically heated steam radiators, Java cinchona forests totaling 25 000 acres supplying most quinine, a new furniture caster using two ball bearings, a child’s horror of medicine from bad taste, and Finland’s 8 720 miles of telegraph lines 2 891 miles of telephone lines and a radio station with a 600 mile radius.
An old advertisement claims Cole's Carbolus salve quickly treats burning itching and skin diseases and stops burn pain without scars. It promotes 30c and 60c sizes and urges readers to send 30c to The J. W. Cole Co. Rockford NL for a package.
Alonzo Herndon born into slavery in 1858 in Walton County Georgia rose to become Atlanta’s leading Black entrepreneur. He moved to Atlanta with $11 and built a barber business empire now valued at $60,000 in shops plus real estate totaling about $500,000. He recently purchased a $10,000 house to run a day nursery and kindergarten for Black children and remains active in church work.
A Welsh Halloween custom had each family build a large bonfire on Halloween night. After the fire died down, members tossed a white pebble with their name into the embers and, at dawn, searched for their pebble. If a pebble was missing, the cast member was believed to die before next Halloween.
The excerpt shows a professor questioning a young man named Omer Oshkosh about his sanity, while Oshkosh replies with hopeful humor that he was sane upon entering the room. The tone reflects a campus-style quip from a Notre Dame feature.
Dialogue notes the speaker asking about a young Bings figure and Tommy Jones. The reply clarifies the figure is Tommy Jones’s friend, not an alter ego. The exchange centers on identity within a social circle.
The Women's Industrial League of Great Britain asked 5 000 firms for experiences of women as industrial workers. About 1 500 replies showed encouraging results with women retained and in many cases increased employment. Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin. On rising and retiring gently smear the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash off with Cuticura Soap after five minutes. It improves complexions and relieves dandruff itching and rough hands.
A Louvre statuette shows an Egyptian queen 3 000 to 4 000 years old wearing a low neck gown with short sleeves and a closely fitted skirt. Garfield Tea is claimed to cure liver and kidney disorders with regular use.
A witty exchange highlights the typist’s sharp humor as the orator seeks more speech while the staff member reveals the theme of spellbound rhetoric. The exchange appears in the Boston Transcript.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is described as a tonic and blood purifier that acts through the blood to reduce inflammation of mucous surfaces. The ad argues catarrh worsens when health is poor and claims the product restores normal conditions. Circulation and circulars offered by B. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
A British humor weekly mocks an American inventor’s scheme to lasso enemy submarines as an improvement over simply pinning them, portraying the idea as fanciful and impractical.
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