Jobs Await Incoming Democrats as Congress Gathers
Washington March 17. With the approaching sixty second Congress the influx of office seekers fills hotel lobbies. The new House will have 500 plus jobs, many with high salaries including the clerk of the House and sergeant at arms at 5000 dollars yearly. Other posts range from 3500 to 3000, with numerous clerks under the clerk and under the sergeant at arms. The door keeper’s office and the House postmastership provide key positions. many assistants and messengers fill the ranks, and the folding room employs about sixty staff. The piece also notes Chamberlain's Liniment for rheumatism.
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Washington, D. C
Sixty-Second
Congress
New Democratic House
Journal
Reading
House
ZEMO and ZEMOTONE Cure Skin Diseases Says Ad
An advertisement proclaims two germicides ZEMO and ZEMOTONE destroy disease germins and cure skin ailments. The pitch claims universal effectiveness from internal or external origins. It cites E.W. Rose Med. Co. St. Louis and that all druggists sell the remedies.
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E.W. Rose Med. Co
St. Louis
Classifieds Highlight Automatic Selection for Ad Targeting
Classified advertising notes that readers are matched to offers through automatic selection. The snippet emphasizes how the system connects buyers and sellers without manual sorting.
War Ad Campaign Hints at Backing for a Business Plan
A fragment hints at a wartime advertisement tied to a business plan seeking financial backing. It mentions the word backing in connection with a strategic campaign and funding support. The snippet implies a promotional effort aimed at securing sponsors or investors.
All-Flower Hats and Social Turmoil at Florida Spring
The article describes flower hats in Florida with violets and rose leaves, praising simple trims and panama styles. It shifts to a diarist’s critique of young women and matrons in southern social life, condemning loud behavior, flirtation, and hotel noise, urging gentler manners and repose.
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Florida
Mergy
Margaret
Dear Margaret Letters From a Suffragette Visitor
The narrator arriving at a bustling hotel notes crowds from all walks of life and humorously longs to pass acts of legislature about women behavior. Corridors showcase costumes and manners with notorious bad taste.
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Margaret
How She Keeps Her Baby Healthy Test Free
A period piece urging mothers to keep infants’ bowels open for health. It touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle, scientific laxative based on forty years of experience. The ad invites free samples and medical advice from Dr W B Caldwell at Monticello Illinois.
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Lena, Wis
Chas
Dr. Caldwell
Tool Chest Just for Housewife
A homemaker should keep a dedicated drawer or cupboard with a stock of handy items. Suggested contents include paper clips rubber bands office pins a brass-edged 18 inch rule pencils a sharpener and multiple boxes of tacks to avoid endless rifling through the home. Priorities keep items near at hand and organized for easy use.
Take HERBINE for indigestion relief in minutes
A medicinal claim promotes HERBINE to ease indigestion by expelling fermented matter into the bowels. Price 50e. Sold by J. L. Wikle.
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J. L. Wikle
Coal sales ad from O. Watson offers winter supply
O. Watson advertises coal with best grades at reasonable prices. Contact by telephone to discuss orders and get details.
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O. Watson
Wanted Language and Candor for Success
A concise guide urges blunt honesty in requests and offers to improve chances of success. It stresses explicit statements of wants and terms to avoid ambiguity and miscommunication.
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