Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by Nebraska Woman
Mrs. John Koppellmann of McLean Nebraska recommends Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to women suffering from functional disturbances. She reports a healthy baby girl and improved health after using the remedy. The advertisement touts forty years of use and cites relief from displacements inflammation irregularities backache headaches nervousness or the blues.
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McLean, Neb
Lydia E. Pinkham
John Koppelmann
Re No
McLean
Nebraska
Merica
Pinkhamedicine Co
Ynn
Mass
Can t All Be College Men Andrew Carnegie Tale
A Scottish castle compliment to Carnegie sparks a tale about education and self-made men. In a New York restaurant a guest with a diamond pin demands a chandelier be moved, quipping that not everyone has been to college.
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Andrew Carnegie
Nto
New York
Fiery Red Pimples and Cuticura Remedies Ad
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as effective for eczemas with free samples offered via Cuticura Dept X Boston. It promotes soap and ointment prices and notes wartime naval activity mentions with a humorous line about periscopes.
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Dept. X
Boston
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Aid Kidney and Back Pain
For centuries Haarlem oil capsules offer relief for backache lumbago sciatica and kidney bladder and liver disorders. They cleanse the kidneys purify the blood ease inflammation and may prevent serious kidney disease. The ad promises refunds if not satisfied and cautions to buy only the genuine product.
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Haarlem
Rashuns Learns To Smile In Rain After Quinine Remedy
Rashuns walks home in rain when Simpson teases him then reveals Mason sought a chemist for a cure to sorrow and memory. The chemist mixed quinine epsom salts wormwood and castor oil and Mason now cannot think except of new schemes to remove the taste from his mouth.
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Rashuns
Simpson
Trashuns
Mason
President calmly manages lengthy caller at reception
A government official recalls a moment when the president swiftly and smoothly displaced an eager caller during a reception. The president paused, smiled, and said, I am monopolizing you, delivering a courteous, brief escape.
Divorce sparks punishment in a troubled romance
The Boston Evening Transcript reports a scandal where Edith backs out and urges punishment after a dual proposal by a man to both women. Marie questions the motive while Edith insists on accountability, framing divorce as tearing at love.
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Edith
Marie
Boston
Conserving Wheat and Sugar in Mush Recipes
An old cooking note explains ways to prepare cornmeal mush with milk or cream, stressing not to overcook or overthicken. It offers methods using double boilers and fireless cookers, with variations in water milk ratios and optional dried fruits like raisins and dates to enrich flavor and cut sugar use.
Cornmeal Puddings Without Wheat or Sugar
Recipes for puddings using milk cornmeal and molasses. Indian Pudding combines cornmeal milk salt and ginger baked slowly to serve eight. Cornmeal and Fig Pudding uses cornmeal figs milk and eggs baked three hours, served eight to ten. Cornmeal and Apple Pudding substitutes apples for figs in the same base.
Mush and Milk: A Wartime Call to Use Cornmeal Dish
An editorial urges Americans to revive mush and milk as an economical balanced meal. It argues the dish uses no wheat meat or sugar, frees scarce foods for troops, and strengthens national morale during wartime. It notes Axis powers observe American conservation and the Kaiser fears the policy.
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America
Fruits Save Sugar in Fresh and Dried Forms
The article notes ripe fruits contain varying sugar levels from three ounces per pound in fresh figs and plums to half an ounce per pound in watermelon. Drying concentrates sugar, making dried fruits taste sweeter. suggests eating fresh fruit to economize on added sugar and using fruit in place of desserts in warm weather.
Wartime Exhibits Displayed Across Five Circuits
The joint committee on government exhibits announced a nationwide display of wartime and other agency activities. Representing Agriculture War Navy Interior and Commerce along with the Food Administration and the Committee on Public Information, the exhibits will tour five circuits of large fairs from August 10 to December.
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Committee On Government
Departments of Agriculture, War, Navy, Interior and Commerce
The
Food Administration
Committee On Public Information
King
Pontina Fom
Desertful Biddies and Poultry Puns
A lighthearted humorous item notes Fogg’s disgust with poultry farming after forty hens bragged of laying before he left home and only eight laid upon return. A second quip jokes that love misreads value, saying a woman who looks like thirty cents is not worth her weight in gold.
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Fogg
Boston Evening Transcript
Kaleor Training Camp Exchange Gaffe Reported
A Louisiana man at a training camp asks an officer about a colleague named Kale, saying he has been there six weeks and has not seen him. The exchange reflects confusion over leadership or assignments at the camp.
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Louisiana
Meadow Stunt Prompts Odd Bet With Maud Muller
Nebuchadnezzar the ox eats grass and dreams of making a hit with Maud Muller as he explains his plan in a playful Meadow Street scene.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Maud Muller
Dorothy Helps a Wounded Soldier in Street Car Tale
A young girl named Dorothy comforts a wounded soldier in a crowded street car, offering to sit on her mother's lap. The scene reflects a family of patriots with uncles at war and a child’s innocent admiration for soldiers.
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Dorothy
Soldy
Mamma
Harper's Magazine
Condensed Quart Mix-Up Delights Cornet Players
A humorous snippet shows a customer receiving a condensed quart instead of a quart, sparking amusement as cornets players pick up a new tune about the mislabeling. The exchange highlights quirky miscommunications and small town charm.
Watch Your Stomach In Hot Weather
An old newspaper wellness item advises keeping the stomach in good order during hot months to prevent illness. It promotes TONIO and EATONIC as quick relief for acidity, indigestion, and stomach upset with druggist placement and a money back promise.
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EATON
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