Daughter Saved From Operation After Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. W. D. Weis of Petersburg Virginia reports her daughter suffered two years from right side pain and weakness. She refused then accepted Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and soon recovered. The letter urges other women with similar symptoms to try the root and herb remedy and write for special advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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North Adams Street
Peperosty
Miss Wells
Lydia FE. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
The Little Mother and Shack 3 by Zoe Beckley
In a war ambulance stuck near a shell hole Roger and Sally cling to fear then recover with grim humor. A reckless Tommy risks a Mills bomb and the pair face peril as the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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the Little Mother
Zoe Beckley
Use Cocoanut Oil For Washing Hair
Advice on using pure coconut oil as a shampoo to avoid alkali in soaps. Wet hair, rub in oil, rinse for a clean scalp and silky hair. Easy to obtain at drug stores and inexpensive, lasting for the whole family.
Frail Women Promise Quick Strength by Bio-feren
The article promotes Bio-feren claiming frail nervous women can rapidly gain strength and vitality. It asserts two weeks to a vigorous body with sparkling eyes and health colored cheeks, attributed to the discoverer of Bio-feren.
Bio-seren Health Booster Promises Quick City-Wide Gains
Describes Bio-seren as a cheap health supplement claiming to transform tired women into healthier, more attractive, and sharper individuals within a week. Promotes grabbing a package from any druggist with a seven day regimen and claims a money-back if results aren’t achieved. Lists ingredients on the package and notes no secret formula.
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Gruggist
Heart and Home Problems
Dear Mrs. Thompson advises a girl to accept friendship, not seek love, after a young man shows distant behavior post separation. Another eighteen year old is urged to date others and not rely on a sulking, young lover who is too young to truly love.
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Mrs. Thompson
Barbara
Chums Advise Flowers To Sick Schoolmate
Two fourteen year old girls ask Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson if it is proper to bring flowers to a very sick schoolmate. The answer: yes, bring a bunch and leave with the person at the door to express sympathy.
Dear Country Lass Proposes The Bashful Soldier
A letter to Mrs Thompson describes a young man drafted soon and bashful about proposing. The writer asks how to secure a declaration of engagement and reassurance that the soldier cares. The response says bashful boys find a way to propose. rushing him only hinders.
Return of the Book Dear Mrs Thompson
A worried woman seeks help to recover a book loaned to a young man. After several visits and then two months of silence he now dates another girl, prompting a request for guidance on writing a note to demand return.
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Mrs. Thompson
Dear Mrs Thompson Steno Grapher and Respectful Dates
A dialect letter asks if a thirty year old employer should visit a nineteen year old stenographer who works for him. The writer seeks guidance after confiding she likes the man but doubts dating him. The mother defers and the adviser suggests caution and boundaries.
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Mrs. Thompson
Dear Mrs Thompson on Flowers From Married Man
A reader asks if daily flowers from a married man to her desk are proper. The adviser notes propriety depends on his age, remarks, and actions, and warns that romantic intent is inappropriate if the man seems to be in love.
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Mrs. Thompson
Everyday It Yette Proper Respect for Our National Emblem
The text emphasizes proper treatment of the National Emblem, calling for lowering the flag at sundown, preventing it from becoming bedraggled or soiled, and bringing it indoors in rain.
Questions Answered by Marie Reilley Etiquette Column
Marie Reilley answers readers questions on etiquette in this column. Submit queries addressed to her in care of the paper with a self addressed stamped envelope.
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Marie Reilley
Reilley
Social meeting tips from Ruth and Marie
Ruth advises inviting girls for afternoons with knitting and light refreshments to meet people through friends and vary locations. Marie suggests mothers leave cards with a host about their son when he cannot attend.
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Ruth
Marie
Income tax returns required for E F soldiers
Officers and enlisted men in the American Expeditionary Forces earning $1000 or more in 1917 must prepare income tax returns and file with the proper US internal revenue collector by August 1 1918, War Department announces.
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Washington
American Expeditionary Forces
Internal Revenue
United States
War Department
Listening Posts On Western Front Aid Allies
A French official photograph shows a listening post used by Allied forces on the western front. Soldiers monitor enemy activity and use underground moles to hear tunneling and digging of new trenches.
Not over organdie styles pattern and home visits
An old pattern note describes fabrics like organdie batiste lawn and silk with a surplice waist and optional cuffed or flowing sleeves. It lists pattern sizes 16 18 20 with size 18 needing 54% yard of 36 inch fabric and a 1% yard skirt at the foot. Social notes recount visits and local events among Williams and Burson families.
Save Seeds For 1919 War Garden Says Ohio Board
The Ohio War Board urges gardeners to save seeds from their 1918 war gardens as cabbage seeds and other crops may be scarce next year. Save ripe peas beans and seeds of tomatoes peppers radishes lettuce squashes pumpkins spinach corn cucumbers and melons. Prepare now to feed boys and Allies.
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Ohio War Board
Local social round up at area residents homes
Misses Nella and Bessie Hubler spent Friday to Sunday with Miss Ethel Steimnetz. Frank Cain was Friday evening guest of Richard Williams. Mr and Mrs Walt Williams and sons Pearl Clarence and Orville were Sunday guests of Mrs Williams’s brother M A Williams. Rev Smith filled his regular appointment Sunday evening.
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W. H. Williams
Frank Cain
Herbert Cain
Otho Burson
I. L. Jones
Harold
Frank
Delbert Williams
Nella Hubler
Bessie Hubler
Lola Williams
Burlingham
Ella
Roberta Sapp
Cleo Williams
G. H. Williams
Laura
C. L. Orr
BE. W. O’brien
Mary Guthrie
E. W. O’brien
Wayne Wingett
O. U
Elsworth Wingett
Franklin and
Paul
Athens
Nella
Ethel Steimnetz
Richard Williams
Walt Williams
Pearl, Clarence
Orville
M. A. Williams
Rev. Smith
This Place
Mopping Movement Planned for Ohio School Children
Columbus July 24 Special plans are being set by the educational division of the Ohio War Savings Committee for a mopping movement by state school children during the last six weeks of the prize contest period which closes September 10. The contest opened May 1 and thousands of pupils in public and parochial schools compete for 25 prizes including 1000 in War Savings Stamps, an Overland automobile, 500 in War Savings Stamps, a Chase piano, a Herchede Hall clock, watch, violin, sheep and pony and a diamond ring awarded by Ohio firms and individuals.
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Columbus
Ohio War Saving Committee
State War Savings Committee
Americans Linked to Irish Plot Revealed in Censored Letters
London reports a Dublin Daily News correspondent notes new evidence of a German Irish plot via extracts from censored private correspondence between Ireland and America. Details on munition timings and quantities are said to be included. Sirax Smith, who earned a decoration after four gas attacks, recalls using a Lewis gun in trenches and remaining brave under shell fire.
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Ireland
America
Lypsy Smith
Y. M
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Mrs. Wells
Petersburg
Roger
Sally
Tommy
Mills
Vinci
Comfort Powder Co
Boston
Masa
Clarence Dutton
Camp Shermah
Saame
Mrs
Elizabeth Thompson
Western Front
Pratt’s
London
Dublin
The
Daily News
Batzhal
Cee Rete
Scott Haney Co
Athens O
Food Administration
Wolfe Bros
Junod Milling CO
F. J. Beasley Milling CO
Moler Feed & Poultry Coo
Murphy’s Shoe Store
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