Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy advertised
An old promotional piece touts Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy as essential for kidney and liver balance. It cites widespread use over 40 years, testimonials from users including O F L Tose of Burtonville Kentucky, and endorses purchases from druggists with ten cent samples available from Warner's Remedies Co. Rochester New York.
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Warner
O. FL Tose
Burtonville
Kentucky
Lampie
Warner's Safe Remedies Co
Rochester
N.Y
Less Food and Stronger Soldiers Say Wartime Rationing
An asserted wartime claim argues that strict German food rationing improved fighting power. The text cites Milo Hastings of Physical Culture praising reduced meat and beer intake as best for hard muscular trim, contrasting it with overfed nation stereotypes and urging real starvation as more effective in warfare.
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Germany
Milo Hastings
Boastful spectator misidentifies band at asylum inmates
A loud spectator bragged about past football feats to cheering youths then claimed the band was his own. On learning the players were inmates of Jo Cal Innatie asylum, the crowd laughed as he hurried away.
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Jocal Innatie
No Mistake. A ruined cathedral and murdered children scene
A vivid passage describes ruins of a cathedral a soldiers cemetery and a sacked convent then a small mound of murdered children. Holmes excitedly claims the kaiser passed that way while Watson notes a woman buying a gold brick challenges masculine pride in intellect.
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Sherlock Holmes
Watson
Nation Cannot Build Wall To Ensure Absolute Safety
A historical note suggests a nation cannot erect a wall tall enough to guarantee safety, even as it retreats into isolation. The idea questions the adequacy of walls as a sole security measure and hints at broader diplomatic implications.
Jokers Drain City Lights For War Moral
A group of youths in a cigar store step by step dim electric signs in a cafe and a dentist office, urging conservation. Their pranks plunge the central business district into darkness, then they reflect on citizens’ willingness to aid the nation’s war effort.
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Tame- Son
Dentist's Office
Army Jest From the Regiment in Domestic Banter
The Cleveland Plain Dealer prints a military joke from a sergeant major type named Justin Omad. In a light domestic scene he jokes with his wife about doors and love during their three months of marriage. The piece ends with the promise of another joke later.
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Justin Omad
Cleveland
Walpole Memoirs Quote on Patriotism and Promises
Fragmentary excerpt recalls Sir Robert Walpole denouncing pretended patriots as self serving. It notes his view that allies march against Germany and ends with a warning not to trust unhealthy credit on promissory notes. The passage presents a satirical, late 18th or early 19th century tone.
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Robert Walpole
Walpole
Take Good Care of Bob White in War Food Drive
Iowa items note a college birdman praising Bob White as a key war air scout, detailing his long work hours and diet. Other Iowa briefs cover delayed classifications for married registrants, Iowa women serving in France, Red Cross and YMCA aid, road fund applications, a Dows patient surviving a punctured bowels case, Des Moines sheep for parks, Camp Dodge military tactics films, cold storage egg labeling, Grundy County births, Iowa food pledge reports, coal production hopes, and state debt and car shipments for corn.
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Bob White
Iowa State College
Sam
Crowder
Iowa
Carnell College of
Mt. Vernon
France
Battle Front
Pearle Webber Thompson
Chicago
No. 12
Red Cross
Pearle Reeder Campbell
Sioux City
Herbert G. Campbell
Cornell
YY. MG. A
Alarshall County
Board of Supervisors
Iowa State Highway Commission
Federal County Co-Operative Road Fund
A. Nebergall
Dows
Nebergall
Des Moines
United States
Sammy
Camp Dodge
West Point
W. B. Barney
State Board of Health
Grundy County
Turope
W. L. Harding
State Board of Control
Harding
McAdoo
Towa
Palestine
Powell Zion Movement
Nevada
Story County
Wilk
Recipe for Gray Hair Preparation and Use
A home remedy article explains mixing Bay am, Barba Compound, glycerine, and water to darken gray hair. It claims the mixture darkens faded streaks without coloring the scalp, leaving hair soft and glossy and not sticky. Full directions are in each Barba Compound box.
Between Two Oceans Tourists Find Road to Ocean Misled
In Santa Barbara hills two tourists seeking a shortcut ask a sunbaked local for directions to the ocean. The rugged youth responds in a blunt Cockney riff, hinting at the confusion of rural paths and the elusive route to the water.
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Santa Barbara
Tarpens Magazine
Green's August Flower Remedy Ad
Green's August Flower has long been a household remedy for constipation and digestive woes. This gentle laxative promises quick relief from indigestion, liver trouble, headache, and heart palpitations, with a claim of widespread availability and use in many countries.
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Adv
Fragmentary OCR Note with Utter Confusion
garbled text shows a mother and young son reacting to items described as batt and soup in eyes. The dialogue is largely incomprehensible with stray phrases like Who are we going to have it and Why one of these hereless divs. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge.
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United States
Canada
U. S
Employment Service
Department OF Labor
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure colds
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised to build up the system cleanse the blood and render sufferers less liable to colds. It is said to act through the blood on mucous surfaces and to cure acute or chronic catarrh with testimonials offered for free. Available from all druggists for 5 cents ledgered by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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SPOHN
Spoin's
Spohn Medical CO
Mfra
Goxhe
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Biblical Bread Recipe From Ezekiel War Time Guide
Wartime bread guide cites Ezekiel chapter four verse nine as instruction to mix wheat barley beans ten something millet and fitches into a single vessel to bake bread. The passage frames a symbolic cooking act as sustenance during hardship.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Advertise Eczema Relief
A promotional item claims fiery red pimples and distressing eczemas improve with a hot bath using Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment. Free samples are offered by Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston, with Soap priced 25 cents and Ointment 25 and 50.
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Dept. X
Boston
Warned Off and Flag Quick Action Report
Reports mention Germain theasles in the neighborhood and a call to display the American flag. No confirmed events or official actions are detailed, leaving the item as a brief local advisory with warnings and patriotic gesture observed by residents.
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Witey
Germain Theasles
Pills and Teas Advertised for Liver and Digestion
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as liver and bowel regulators from 46 years ago. It also touts Garfield Tea for constipation biliousness liver and kidney troubles. The playful copy likens a night watchman to a tombstone for a life vitshand.
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Dr. Pierce
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