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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1922
Page
3
The Edgeworth Club reaches thousands of pipe smokers who join automatically by lighting Edgeworth. A guest offer promises free samples of Plug Slice and Ready-Rubbed via post card, plus dealer address if requested. Edgeworth comes Ready-Rubbed or Plug Slice in various sizes and packaging.
A youthful visitor, about twenty, muses by a city monument and imagines what John Paul Jones would think of the modern autos that daily pass the statue, recalling Washingtonian reverence for historic figures.
On a late World War battlefield a rugged Yankee sergeant rounds up German prisoners including an officer. The German looks puzzled as the sergeant dismisses the term storm troops and boasts Kansas’s cyclones. The scene captures cross battlefield bravado and regional humor.
A conference in Jersey City and New York formed a committee of livestock commission men slaughterers retailers railroads and producers with the USDA to curb price swings in live and dressed lambs. They urged better breeding feeding docking and castration lengthened marketing periods and co ordinated shipments to stabilize markets.
Weather forecasts issued by extension service agents guide alfalfa seed growers in Oklahoma and Utah. Seed from the second crop gains value up to five dollars per day per acre near maturity, prompting late-night cutting to avoid frost. In Utah, 500 acres were cut after warnings, saving twenty to thirty dollars per acre, with two growers saving at least two thousand dollars.
An advertisement claims stomach reordering cures rheumatism and indigestion. It features testimonial from Robert Trotter of St Paul Minnesota noting improved health after taking Tanlac and urges readers to obtain a bottle from local druggists.
A Boston Transcript snippet recalls Mrs. Youngbride marveling at freshly picked asparagus. The market man praises its quality saying it was picked not three hours ago and jokes that cooks braid the ends, illustrating playful domestic humor.
A visitor asked the Washington Star city editor if he could identify the city. The exchange highlights differing beliefs about the role and methods of reporters in gathering news.
A humorous exchange quotes a child named Tommy explaining his large capital letter on the word bank as a joke about his father’s view of banks. The item reflects a light quip in the London Answers column.
Twelve year old Claribel reads poetry and notes poems signed Anonymous. She asks her father who Anonymous is. he does not know, yet comments on the many poems attributed to him. An advertising blurb touts Cuticura Ointment and Soap for skin care and dandruff.
A humorous dialogue from a primer lesson ends with a child asking about letters and sound. The parent humorously replies there is no word double p double i and double e but that it spells two ples, highlighting playful language and early literacy exploration.
An eminent medical authority warns against pills and salts that provide temporary relief from constipation at the cost of permanent injury. The ad promotes Nujol as a natural lubricant that softens waste without gripping, not a medicine, and claims physician approval and hospital use.
A Boston woman asks for a practical gift for her son and a clerk suggests Self Help. She retorts that he already needs no instruction, joking about his behavior at a party.
Greenville Delaware letters extol Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for daughters and mothers. A Greenville resident reports her elder daughter's internal trouble improved after use and urges others to try the remedy, noting decades of reader testimonials from women.
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