No North South or East West Talk In Dinner Conversation
A dinner scene features a family discussing the lingering North South tensions. The minister predicts a future without regional divisions, sparking a boy’s quip about easier geography lessons. The exchange reflects humorous social humor from Harper's Magazine.
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Hitle Willie
Harper’s Magazine
Genuine Bayer Aspirin Warning Ad Card
The notice cautions that only Bayer labeled aspirin on packaging or tablets is genuine and prescribed by physicians for many conditions. It notes aspirin’s approved uses from colds to pain and mentions small tin boxes of twelve tablets and larger drugstore packages, labeling Bayer as the trademark.
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Bayer
Petrified Apple Attracts Otis Doctor Fascination
Dr. C E Holt of Otis Maine displays a specimen described as a petrified apple found on a lakeshore. The fruit shaped object is yellowish white with a natural form two inches across and includes a stem and leaf, though its origin whether natural, petrified, or stonecutter work remains undecided.
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C. E. Holt
Otis
Pra
Epler
Artists’ Inertia Behind the Artistry
A reflective note contrasts artists who claim devotion to their craft with those who lack true engagement. The piece questions authenticity in creative pursuits and the gap between professed vows and actual practice.
Noted Self-Help Lines From An Old Book Aims at Life Choices
A fragment warns life hinges on choices and cautions against folly. It suggests early marriage as a path and notes a single major error can endure. The piece compares such guidance to the limited aid found in an income tax brochure.
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Bilan
Women Need Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble without realizing it. Back pain headaches nervousness and loss of ambition can signal kidney disease. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is a physician prescription advertised as a remedy. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY and mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Quip on Weather and Temper in Humorous Exchange
In a light exchange, Mr. Meekton jokes that his wife’s anger is marked by humidity more than warmth, a playful line connecting mood and climate. The remark highlights a witty take on domestic tempers and meteorology.
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Mr. Meekton
Deadly, Artist's Model Sketch Sparks Lurid Muse Joke
A wry remark about drawing from life turns into a grim quip as an artist jokes he mostly sketches from his wife, prompting hush in the studio and a wary laugh from onlookers.
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Deadly
Taking a Chance
A brief humorous note describes a customer who keeps eyes shut while shopping, explaining it as he selections a curious loupe with care. The vignette captures a quirky store moment and the shopkeeper’s patient humor.
Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad Sparks Fashion Advice
An advertisement extols Cuticura Talcum Powder as a versatile antiseptic scented powder for skin and babies, claims it rivals perfumes, and promotes the Cuticura Toilet Trio. A social quip jokes about changing gowns and minds while a line mocks matrimony dividends and education as salvation.
MacMillan Heads for Baffin Land in Bowdoin Expedition
Veteran Arctic explorer MacMillan sails from Bowdoin College town toward Baffin Land aboard the Bowdoin with 20 rifles and film cameras to document potential unknown peoples, glaciers, and auroras. The voyage aims to circumnavigate Baffin Land with two years’ absence, seeking coal, oil, minerals, and magnetism study while offering Eskimo audiences projected film.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Onald B. Macmillan
Gatlin Land
Labrador
Baffin Land
MacMillan
Bowdoin
William Baffin
Baffin Bay
Greenland
Big Island
Lancaster Sound
Gulf of Boothia
Oncy
Provincetown
Mass
Peary Arctic Club
Peary
Cabot Labrador
Crocker Land
Etah
Wyth
Fort Churchill
Hudson Bay
Canada
Jonathan Smal
Jet
Mags
Ieyar Mie
Dilion, Dae
Vuctor sincMillan
Worcester Academy
Maine
France
Haverhill
Dawson Howell
Boston
Caregle Institute
Pittsburgh
Trinity College
Richard H. Goddard
Winthrop
Dartmouth
Howell
Baffin
Bowdoin's
Wiscasset
Stefanson
Amundsen
John Franklin
Northwest Passage
Baffin ‘Land
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