Practical and Smart Patterns for 1840 Dresses
The fall pattern book offers long line dress patterns with slim silhouettes and high bosom lines, suited for wool broadcloth crepe or faille. Junior basque-waisted frocks, sizes from 11 to 19, detail fabric needs and vestee contrasts. Send for the Fall Pattern Book to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago with 15 cent pattern price each.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Correct Constipation Before Not After All Bran cereal
An old style health ad urges prevention of constipation by regular use of Kellogg's All-Bran cereal. It emphasizes bulk in the diet, eating with milk or baked into muffins, drinking water, and claims daily use helps avoid dull days and emergency medicines. Manufactured in Battle Creek and sold by every grocer.
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Kelioge’s
Battle Creek
Dangerous Game But War's a Game Not Fit for Kings
Quote from Cowper about war being a dangerous game that rulers should not play. Reflects on rulers and subjects and the folly of royal conflicts. The fragment expresses a cautionary view of warfare as a perilous pastime for those in power.
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Cowper
Lemon Juice Remedy for Rheumatic Pain
Doctors favor lemons and a home mix with REV PRESCRIPTION promises relief from rheumatic neuritis and muscular pain. Four lemons are added to a quart of the mixture, produced at low daily cost, and sold by leading druggists with guaranteed approval.
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Chicago
Advertisements as an Educational System for Buyers
The ads are not mere selling aids but an educational system shaping Americans into the best educated buyers. They form part of an economic framework that delivers more value for money every day.
Night Walk and Confession Under Moonlit Pond
Norwood and Lynn share a tense, intimate confession at a moonlit lotus pond in India. He reveals he loves her, she admits disinheritance and doubt, and they vow to face the future together while unseen watchers, including the Maharanee and Aunt, weigh in. Moses O Leary and servants observe as plans unfold toward a possible elopement or reconciliation.
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Norwood
Lynn Harding
O’leary
O'Leary
Lynn
Rundhia
Maharanee
Captain Norwood
Carl
Carl Norwood
Earth
Lotus Pond
You
Europe
Iniqui
Jezebel
Randhra
Bundhia
Harding
SrOetsa
Moses O’leary
Solomon
Moses Lafayette O'Leary
Blue denim bed spread with red bands for a boy
A home sewing note outlines a bed spread for a 10 year old with a blue denim and red gingham band design. Instructions include fabric needs for a 36 inch spread, cutting, band placement, and corner shaping plus sewing tips. Also announces Sewing Books No 4 and affordable quilt block pattern sets from Mrs. Spears in Bedford Hills New York.
Doc's Note From Chemist Resolves Dinner Draft
An invitation to dinner to a new doctor yields an illegible reply. The hostess asks the chemist to read the note. The druggist deciphers the message and hands over a bottle for $1.50, solving the mystery with a joke about reading doctors' letters.
Past Lives On The True Past Departs Not
Quote from Carlyle about the enduring nature of truth and goodness beyond time, asserting that nothing worthy in the past truly dies or leaves reality. Reflects on memory and enduring values, with a philosophical stance on existence.
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Carlyle
Thoreau on living simply as a wise pastime
A concise reflection by Henry David Thoreau urging simple living as a practical pastime rather than a hardship, emphasizing self-reliance and mindful restraint as a path to meaning and independence.
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Thoreau
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Talbot Mundy
Tommies
Logue
Martha Ostenso
Autumn Dean
Jarvis Dean
British Columbia
England
Autumn
Bruce Landor
Bruce
Wyeth Spears
Doc
Bellana
Luden’s
St Menthel
Vor
CAE
Ny Ae Preah
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