Bayer Aspirin Package Claims and Uses Featured Ad
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It urges accepting only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for relief of headaches toothaches earaches neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Pack prices are a few cents for twelve tablets with larger packages sold by druggists. The copy notes aspirin as a trademark of Bayer and identifies the chemical as acetylsalicylic acid.
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Bayer
Campaign funds urged for office seekers
Boston Transcript notes many men seeking office lack sufficient campaign funds and must scramble to raise money to mount a credible bid.
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Boston Transcript
Doctor Cupid and Favorite Prescription Promise Relief
A public note promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for women. It claims the remedy strengthens weak, worn-out women and restores health, with testimonials from Mrs. Frasart Coop praising quick, positive effects after trying other tonics. The product is sold in tablets and liquid nationwide.
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Abe
Fee
Doctor Pierce
United States
Koxomo, Inc
Dr. Pierce
Peterson's Ointment Heals Year-Long Leg Sore
A letter from A C Gilbrath of Erie Pennsylvania praises Peterson's Ointment describing a leg sore that healed in three weeks. The ad extols rapid cures for eczema old sores piles pimples and chafing and notes mail orders via Peterson Ointment Co Inc Buffalo New York.
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Peterson
A. C. Gilbrath
Reed St
Erie
Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Buffalo
N. Y
Understanding Dockage in Federal Wheat Grades
This article explains dockage as foreign material removed from a wheat sample for grading under federal standards. It details how 1000 gram samples are screened to determine dockage percentages, how dockage affects grade, and the value and handling of dockage for farmers and buyers.
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Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture
Bulletin
Washington
Federal Grain Supervision
Poultry Egg Mailing Cost Varies by Container and Size
The article explains postage for mailing eggs, noting average hens eggs weigh about 1 pounds per dozen and a dozen eggs packed for mailing weighs two to three pounds. Postage is five cents for the first pound, then one cent per pound up to 50 pounds, with total costs rising to 24 cents for 20 pounds and 54 cents for 50 pounds, depending on container and packing.
Fatten Turkeys Gradually for Thanksgiving Market
Guidance on fattening turkeys methodically with boiled corn to avoid diarrhea, plus steps for lice treatment, grit and water, and managing housing and exercise. Emphasizes separating breeders from sale birds, selecting by size over weight, and preserving a vigorous breeding flock for next spring.
Keep Egg Producing Fowls For Better Laying
When feeding the flock observe shanks beaks and plumage. Birds with yellow shanks and beaks and white plumage likely yielded few eggs last season and are unlikely to lay now. Sell such hens and keep the pale shanked birds with worn plumage that show the effort of egg production in the past season.
Trouble in Growing Chicks
It is safe to say that most trouble in growing chicks comes from improper handling and feeding. The terrors of white diarrhea are often caused by factors other than the disease germs, which foster the ailment and enable its spread.
Side Whiskers Return To London Fashion
The New York Sun notes a revival of side whiskers among London elites after years of regulation military mustaches. It highlights the earl of Lonsdale and Hon. Lancelot Lowther as symbols of this revived, sporting facial hair trend amid postwar shifts.
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London
Lord Rocksavage
Earl of Lonsdale
Lancelot Lowther
New York Sun
Secret ballot to name star boarder in soviet boarding house
A Birmingham Age-Herald item notes a boarding house that will replace its star boarder by a secret ballot rather than the landlady appointing a successor. The front door crepe signals the death, while the timing remains unspecified.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Paper clothes in Japan offer silklike kimonos
A New York Evening Post report notes Japanese wear paper kimonos made from wood pulp. Experts say laymen may mistake them for silk garments, selling for about 1.50 dollars, soft and drapable, potentially popular as everyday dress for all.
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Far East
Japan
New York Evening Post
Farm tax inquiry leads to buried husband claim
A tax collector questions a buxom farmer about property at her farmhouse door. She mentions a small lot two miles away and cheekily notes her husband is buried there, implying it does not improve the land.
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Esse
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NIUE
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Fish Creek
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