Mothers Knee Lessons Versus Moralizing Stores
A quip contrasts moral lessons from a mother’s knee with the idea that memories, like stores heard at a mother’s knee, linger. The exchange hints at lasting impressions formed in childhood.
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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
5
A quip contrasts moral lessons from a mother’s knee with the idea that memories, like stores heard at a mother’s knee, linger. The exchange hints at lasting impressions formed in childhood.
An advertisement advises relief for backache and sluggish kidneys by using four ounces of Rad Salts daily. It claims meat raises uric acid, overworks kidneys, and that the lithia-based drink cleanses sluggish kidneys, neutralizes urine acids, and ends bladder weakness.
The piece sketches Diogenes in modern light, lamenting the search for a congressman who filed income tax without help. It blends satirical lines with brief ads and wartime nostalgia, noting men went overseas in uncertainty and returning by transports.
The Nation fixated on Washingtons Farewell Address as debate over the peace treaty and the League of Nations intensified. Supporters and opponents invoked Washington and the Monroe Doctrine, citing his warnings against entangling alliances and urging a policy of non involvement while balancing neutrality and diplomacy.
An aged man dies in a William Street lodging house in New York. Edward Campion aged sixty five left a will showing wealth enough for a brown stone Fifth Avenue mansion and substantial Manhattan property and cash to two daughters and three sons.
How's This offer promises $100 for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The medicine is taken internally and said to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over forty years at 76 cents. Testimonials free. BJ Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
The luminous paint described uses heated submined sulphur with carbonates of strontium calcium and magnesium with strontium as the main carbonate. A formula mixes 26 parts sulphur 19 parts strontium carbonate six calcium carbonate and one magnesium carbonate. After firing to about 1500 degrees Fahrenheit the blend is ground and made into liquid paint with a colorless varnish of mastic turpentine or drying oils.
Disordered liver remedy Garfield Ten herb laxative advertised for druggists. Short society notes mention Mrs. Dushaway traveling to Europe for gowns with Keene commenting on appearance. Cartoon Mig captions reference ongoing social satire.
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