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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
6
A detective discusses a clerk who lived at 330,000 a year for two years before arrest for theft. He attributes the crimes to love and notes the clerk began buying luxury items like 12-cylinder cars, champagne, platinum watches, and gold mesh bags. The detective quips that love drives spending and salaries.
An advertisement promotes Skinner’s Macaroni and Spaghetti as tasty and nutritious for children. It touts bone and muscle building benefits, calm effects, and economy, claiming Durum wheat and offering a free cook hook via Skinner Mfg. Co of Omaha Nebraska to mothers.
The New York health department notes typhoid carriers rose from about six by TOTA to a larger number by 1916. A national and state registry may be started as the carrier pool grows. About a quarter of carriers work as food handlers and must switch to less risky jobs, causing hardship including a no longer able to support his family.
Dr Frederick A Hall is named chancellor of Washington University after a rise from humble beginnings. He began work in a brickyard, educated himself, and advanced through farming and relentless effort to lead the university. Born in New Jersey, he moved to Illinois as a youth and faced a hard journey to success.
A reflective excerpt notes that many good things arrive after youth ends. The voice, attributed to Ellot, contemplates evolving happiness and the enduring value of experience.
A late season guide offers soaking to rehydrate dried fruits and making marmalades from citrus, spiced prunes with lemon rind and vinegarm, prune and apple roly poly, and cranberry preserves with brown sugar and spices. It ends with a proverb about knowledge and action.
A 1917 McClure Syndicate fashion piece describes cuff hems on skirts as a framing device for bold Egyptian, Aztec and bird motifs. It covers borders, fabrics like Shantung and georgette crepe, and the return of smocking and quilted accents in coats and gowns.
An advertisement extols Western Canada highlighting high yields from 1916 grain and livestock, rising farm wealth, and a settler's success in Saskatchewan. It features J. D. Johnston's seven year tally of crops and assets, praises simple fair taxes, civic participation, and robust settlement prospects.
Instructions for various dishes including Muffins with butter and lemon rind, Bacon scented toast and berry muffins. A chicken and chestnut salad with French dressing, sweet potato on toast with sugar and cinnamon, veal with sour cream gravy, walnut sausage cakes, stuffed heart with dressing, and French toast with stewed prunes.
A designer created a blue checked gingham apron with integrated sleeves using a kimono approach. Neck binding with blue braid and cuff trim, white muslin strip with painted children forms a deep pocket.
A compact wartime economy proposal offers a muff substitute that serves as a warm forearm cuff. Readers are shown how the cuff pairs with its companion to form a comfortable muff when hands meet in front.
In our town Mrs Grabcoi funds a grand opera star for two or three songs once or twice yearly, remarking to neighbors that she can afford such a show. Mr Grabcoi questions the value of music, noting she has little taste but remains generous due to her wealth.
It takes about ten minutes to prove that a hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed by gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment will afford relief and speedy heatment of eczemas itchings and irritations. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
A comment notes that housewives can no longer afford cabbage and implies future boarding houses will have a nicer odor. The brief reflects a satirical take on rising costs and domestic life.
An old advertisement urges constipated or bilious readers to drink Garfield Tea as a remedy. It notes druggists carry the product and ends with a wry line about horsecleaning being worse than poems.
A seven year old named Elmer draws a man a woman two children and a house. The teacher asks where the others are and Elmer replies they have gone in the house.
A Cincinnati inventor markets Freezone as a painless home remedy to lift corns and calluses with a few drops. The ad claims instant soreness relief and that the corn loosens enough to lift away without pain or skin irritation. It notes freezone is sold by druggists and requests wholesalers to stock it.
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