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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
3
A witty note pairs a young surgeon with a telephone operator. The couple’s match is hailed as unusually fitting due to playful puns about cutting and communication. The item reflects lighthearted social commentary found in the era.
An old newspaper ad implores readers to eat less meat due to cost and health concerns. It promotes Skinner Mfg. Co. macaroni and spaghetti as tasty, nutritious, and affordable, with a free cook book from Omaha Nebraska. It also includes various other ad snippets about literacy suffrage and a laxative product.
Special correspondent Oswald F. Schuette details a German internment camp inside a ruined Greek church at Rucar with colorful Roumanian women and displaced villagers. He follows General von Falkenhayn’s march through misty mountains where exhausted troops face mud, wrecked roads, and improvised defenses amid ongoing front operations.
The German gunboat Geier, interned at Honolulu, attempted a May 1898 dash from Havana to the Pacific coast. The US cutter Manning intercepted off Havana, rounding the German cruiser as eight small guard vessels streamed to assist, signaling the blockade's reach and question of its legitimacy.
In Ridgway Pennsylvania Mrs O M Barss credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with curing seven months of female troubles and backache restoring her health enough to do housework She also includes a Tennille Georgia testimonial from Mrs W E Lownsey who says the product saved her life after years of ill health and fatigue The ad notes confidential correspondence with the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co and a prompt reader Q&A segment with short humorous vignettes
A Cincinnati authority touts freezone as the cure for corns and calluses. A few drops on the tender skin relieve pain and lift the entire corn root and all, while the solution dries and shrivels the corn without irritation. A small bottle from any drug store costs little and should remove hard or soft corns. ask your pharmacist to stock it.
A playful exchange unfolds as a woman notes three proposals in one evening and a man hopes not to be the last. An ad touts Red Cross Ball Blue as whitening laundry and lighting household chores. A humorous line adds that lucky people do not rely on luck.
Uric acid exists in everyone in small amounts. Excess comes from heavy meat intake and foods that ferment in the stomach. Weak kidneys fail to filter poisons, allowing uric acid and urate salts to travel via blood, causing backache and rheumatic symptoms. A toning regimen with Anuric, a Dr. Pierce Buffalo discovery, is advertised as dissolving uric acid and aiding its elimination.
An advertisement for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for feverishness headaches teething disorders and bowel regulation. It claims to destroy worms ease teething and break up colds in hours and notes the product is pleasant for children to take. Also mentions a quarter horsepower electric motor used to run a new pump for inflating automobile tires.
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