Cascarets promise relief for stomach bowels headaches
An advertisement urges readers to buy a 10 cent Cascarets box to cleanse the digestive system and ease constipation indigestion biliousness and stomach distress. It claims rapid results and longer relief with regular use and notes all stores carry the product including for children. The Soldiers Have Toothache reports British dental corps provisions for front line service with six dentists dispatched to France and more to follow.
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Adv
British Dental Association
Leutenant
Royal Army Medical Corps
France
London Telegraphi
Sage Tea and Sulphur Hair Remedy Advertises Darkening
An old home remedy now sold as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy promises to darken gray hair naturally and evenly. Sold in drug stores for about 50 cents, it claims to restore color, stop dandruff and itching, and make hair look thicker and younger with regular use.
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Wyeth
Contradictory Jokes and Cautions on Women
A clipped social quip set contrasts a pun about a ceiling drop with a remark that few women are dangerous because they talk before acting. The lines reflect humorous dialogue and a cautionary stereotype about women, framed in a dated, brisk style.
Better Roads Bill Aims at County Anticipation of Taxes
Des Moines reports state aid for permanent roads is a key feature of a forthcoming good roads bill by Senator Francis A. Heald of Cedar Rapids. The plan lets counties issue bonds to anticipate road taxes for 10 to 30 years, create road improvement districts with local funding, and establish a state road fund from a portion of auto taxes to pave country roads without new taxes. The measure faces committee announcements before senate introduction and follows the existing road law as a foundation.
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George Wison
Des Moines
Roy James
Clyde Spiker
Chicago & Northwestern
Iumboldt
Reynolds
D. F. Coyle
James
Spiker
Anamosa
Sioux City
Board of Supervisors
Prim Bhar
Court House
Martin Michaelson
Duncombe
Mort Dodge
F. C. McMartin
Albia
Canada
Souk City
National Creamery Buttermakers' Association
Francis A. Heald
Cedar Rapids
Senate
Iowa
California Syrup of Figs Ady Ad
An overt promotional ad urges mothers to treat children's constipation with California Syrup of Figs. It claims a laxative dose clears waste, improves tongue coating, and restores energy, warning to avoid counterfeit syrups and to buy the 50 cent bottle with directions for all ages.
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California
Ady
Provocation Echoed Over Fido Biscuits Feud
A Washington Star snippet depicts a tense domestic dispute where a wife argues provocation led to her wish to leave her husband. She recounts discovering him attempting to feed her dog Fido biscuits and to steal the dog’s cakes. The exchange centers on trust and anger in a troubled marriage.
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Fido
Washington Star
Professor's Statement on Kidney Pills Relief
Prof Aug F W Schmitz of Thomas Oklahoma reports long backache due to Bright's Disease. After two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills the pain lessened and he stopped treatment, later needing three more boxes. He says the backache has not returned in severity and recommends the pills.
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Aug
F. W. Schmitz
Thomas
Okla
Bright
Dodd
Prof. Schmitz
Jack
Desler
Dodd’s Medicine Co
Buffalo
Theatre A Scene Cut by False Alarm
Mrs Juniper asks where her husband is as he leaves mid act to check a reported alarm. He returns ten minutes later saying it was neither fire nor water, prompting a wry remark from her.
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Mrs. Juniper
Potato King Henry Schroeder Shares Growing Advice
Henry Schroeder, known as the Potato king of the Red River Valley, offers practical farming advice from his success as a potato grower. In John A. Snizer Seed Co. catalogue notes his story reads like a romance and reflects his warm, level headed, and active approach to early competency in farming.
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Henry Schroeder
Red River Valley
John A. Snizer Seed Co
Mr. Schroeder
Potatoes promise bigger returns than any crop says farmer
Do You Know Mr Farmer there is more money in five acres of Potatoes year in and year out than in anything you can grow on your farm The growing of Potatoes now with present machinery is easy It’s regular Fourth of July fun Balzer’s Creations in Seed Corn put Winconain on the Corn Map with its astonishing yields Headquarters for Oats Burley Clovers We gladly mail our Catalog and sample package of Ten Famous Farm Seeds including The Cereal Wonder Rejuvenated White Bonanta Date The Price Winner Billion Dollar Grass Teosinte the Silo Filler etc Send 12¢ and we will mail you our big Catalog and six generous packages of Early cabbage carrot Cucumber Lettuce Radish and other vegetables and seeds for summer crops
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James J. Gibson
Clinton County
Five Mile
German Savings ‘Bank
Des Moines Natonal
Dubuque
Pearl Sparks
Marshalltown
Sparks
Adelphi
Polk County
Fred Beattie
William Beattie
Clemens
Marshall County
Gertrude m. Brackney
Calvin Dickson
Wallmer
Franklin County
Thorwald P. Johnson
B. F. Andrews
Jefferson Bee
Paul B. Stillman
Southwestern
Woodbine
George H. Nicol
Nevada
Don W. Crewdson
Missouri Valley
M. C. Lansbury
Logan
J. B. Jones
M. Pugsley
George W. Atkins
Iowa State Grain Dealers’ Association
W. J. Roy
Cole
Ed. G. Dunn
Mason City
Des Moines
Utterback
M. L. Bickham
Sioux City
Cuvier
Gus Newman
Algona
Uttla
Southweat Thirty-third Street
Straoe
Council Bluffs
Petros Enaffa
East Dubuque
Harvey Theater
Sheldon
Burlington
New London
W. J. Sievers
Alta
Alta State Bank
Commercial Savings Bank
Cadar Rapids
Enigines’ Men's Temperance Association
Rockwell City
Arie
Boone
B. Arie
B. B. Wiley
Hiram Peck
Ottumwa
Peck
Wabash
William Lingwood
Texarkana
Ark
Mt. Auburn
LaPorte Progressive Revie
D. K. Shaver
Columbus Junction
Iowa
W. H. Case
Clarence Davis
Mondamin
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Cambridge
Otley
H. G. Shultz
F. D. Mead
Cresco
C. C. Burgesa
John W H. Peterson
John Varnes
Omaha
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Adama Express Company
Miles
Jackson County
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