You Know What Women Dress For Says Doctor Nahm
A mixed advice column mocks fashions and romance while quoting Dr Ida C Nahm urging women to vanity and health routines. It satirizes engagements and changing minds, then warns against cosmetics and high heels. The piece promotes soap workouts outdoor walks and heavy water intake as youth preserving.
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Ida C. Nahm
Nahm
Lydia E. Pinkham
United States
S. T. Richmond
Providence
R. I. Providence
R. L
Lydia E. _ bam
T. Ricamono
Comic Banter Over Weight and Marriage Thrusts Field
In a playful exchange the speaker jokes about shedding weight and dressing in a dancing frock. The fragment hints at social expectations about marriage and the role of a non-salaried office in pursuing a spouse.
Postum Receives Daily Enjoyment From Morning Cup
A lady doctor describes daily pleasure from Postum a beverage to replace coffee. She notes improved sleep weight gain and calm nerves after switching from coffee she tried substitutes yet favors Postum. The notice lists forms instant and soluble powder and directs readers to The Road to Wellville and Battle Creek Michigan based Postum Co.
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Kentucky
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Bbc
Treating Hogs for Cholera Sera Evidence From Colorado
A report summarizes serum use in hog cholera cases showing large reductions in deaths. Among 16 162 hogs with 70 percent sick, serum reduced mortality to 24.3 percent versus 76 percent without treatment. Other groups show lower losses when serum given earlier or to healthy hogs later exposed. In San Luis Valley, delays yielded about 22 percent loss.
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Ty George MH. Glover
Colorado Experiment Station
Bureau of Animal Industry
Colorado Agriculture College
San Luisa Valley
Individual hog houses offer mobility and disease prevention
C. B. Bratt of Furnas county Nebraska argues in Independent Farmer that single hog houses seven by seven feet or six feet eight inches square bases, made of lumber or galvanized iron, are lighter easier to move and cheaper to construct. He notes heat from the sun affects temperature and cites a $7.50 cost per unit with a simple frame and 26 gauge iron sheeting.
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Bratt
Furnas County
Nebraska
Solid teeth guide ewe purchases for sound breeding
The guide warns buyers to choose ewes with solid feet backs and mouths. Avoid broken mouthed ewes with worn teeth. Four sheep show one pair genes by one year, two pairs by three years. a full mouthed ewe may breed up to five years old.
Swine Notes on Care and Housing
Guidance on pig pens cleaning feeding and housing. Emphasizes dry litter, baking soda during scours, clean troughs and barrels, and keeping brood sows vigorous but not fat. Stresses protein feeding and a well ventilated hog house with ends facing north and south.
Explaining Sons of Birds and Their Songs
The article explains why birds sing, noting fire birds sing to woo mates and encourage nesting. Nightingales charm mates during nest building but grow anxious after eggs hatch, shifting from song to a croak as they assume responsibility.
Why He Went to Concert
Josef Hofmann recounts a tale showing audience attitudes toward piano recitals. A man with two tickets is barred entry for being inebriated. the patron protests over paying yet realizing his condition. He shrugs and admits he is drunk because he attended a piano recital.
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Josef Hofmann
Helpless Man and Hymn Writer Crosby Stare Down Crime
The text recalls Fanny Crosby the blind hymn writer and a Brooklyn anecdote about a bank clerk who stole money and fled with a chorus girl. Crosby commented that every man becomes a fly when a web of lace is aj dead.
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Fanny Crosby
Brooklyn
Age
Grateful Acknowledgment for Dodds Kidney Pills
Mr F C Case of Welcome Lake Pennsylvania writes of relief from back ache kidney trouble and fatigue after using Dodds Kidney Pills and Dyspepsia Tablets. He urges publication to help others. Dodds Kidney Pills sell for 50 cents a box at dealers or MPodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
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F. C. Case
Welcome Lake
Mpodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Count in Paint Rock Dinner Gaffe Surfaces
Henry P. Davison recalls a Spanish count who pretended to be a noble at a Paint Rock castle dinner. The absent minded peer began removing plates while napkin and guests watched in disbelief before the host corrected him at the table.
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Henry P. Davison
Morgan Banking
Paint Rock
George
Home Life Jokes on Going Out and Finishing Things
A humorous dialogue contrasts domestic bliss with going out. The wife questions frequent outings while the husband jokes that pleasure needs height and that arranging a wife is a cue to quit. The piece ends with a sly quip on family expectations.
Dental Compromise
A humorous exchange at a dentist’s office in Kansas City. Brother Oggy pleads for a partial pull for fifty cents, citing he only has half a dollar then negotiates to have the tooth removed halfway for the sum offered.
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Brother Oggy
Kansas City Star
Dream of the Puzzle Analysis
A fragment quotes a speaker foreseeing Kurdish movements and a massacre. The other voice asks if an escape exists, presenting a grim existential exchange about danger and fate. The terse dialogue hints at ethnic conflict and sought escape routes.
Inference on a Sensational Writer
A debate over a writer of sensational literature features questions about his success and quality. The exchange contrasts his perceived superiority with claims of inferiority in a sharp, period tone.
Training Change For Billy Mooney In Centerville
Billy Mooney, after running a barber shop in Centerville for about three years, decides to become a dentist. His uncle Si visits and suggests dentistry is an easy new job, noting Mooney already knows how to work the chair.
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Billy Mooney
Centerville
Tomear
A &Tmtet
Dilly
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertise Wartime Relief
Advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder as relief for aching tender feet and sores. Claims extensive wartime use and urges readers to try today with substitutes available.
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Allen
A Golf Widow
A curious wry piece about a golfer husband and the social echo around marriage and leisure. The vignette portrays how golf talk reflects relationships and reputation in a light, ironic tone.
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