Modern guides to cleaning, cooking and fashion for housewives
A mixed scan of lifestyle notes covers fat content in foods, home economics tips, and humor about guardsmen. It features a petroleum drill update, stock advice with payment terms, and light sketches on fashion, swimwear, and practical garden ideas for the modern household.
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Capitol Petroleum Company
Securities Finance & Investment Co
Foster Bldg
Denver
Colo
Adv
Madras
Hard Times and Courage in Mrs Jones's Cottage
A charwoman, driven from her home by a brutal husband, finds solace in a cramped two room cottage. Neighbors remark on her misfortune, but she insists she is happier away from the old place and a temperamental spouse who once assaulted her. The piece highlights resilience amid hardship.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Cuticura Skin Care Ad and Golf Banana Punchline
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment for eczema and itching with a free sample offer mailed from Boston. It includes a Red Cross Ball Blue laundry booster line and notes California product sales reaching 260 million dollars.
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Dept. L
Boston
Near a Storm Center and a Sister’s Resolve
A staged dialogue features a storm center quip about sound and home direction as a man notes hearing his wife at night. Madge, three years older than her baby brother, volunteers to keep watch and promises to alert mom if the infant falls, claiming she will mind him and call immediately.
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Madge
Pearson’s Weekly
Advertisement parody lines on romance and laundry soap
The short ad style text mocks romantic talk and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry soap. It contrasts flowers with costly gifts and ends by advising restraint and a stiff upper lip. The snippet reflects vintage ad humor and consumer product promotion.
Temper, Lust, and Gossip in a Fifth Avenue Lounge
Two elderly New York clubmen idle in a Fifth Avenue lounge observe a stylish woman pass. They muse on aging and appearances as a quip about age prompts a reflection that temper, not trouble, drives much of life’s misery.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Charles B. Towns
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