Nervous Woman Recovers with Pinkham Remedy
A Illinois woman narrates four years of nervous weakness and irregularities ending after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports restored health, regular cycles, and vigor, urging others to seek the remedy and requesting the firm for more information. Also includes early 20th century seed and candy-store anecdote blurbs and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher
E.pinkham
Hever
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Grip Epidemic Hurts Kidneys and Prompts Swamp Root Claims
Doctors nationwide report grip illness draining the system and harming kidneys with back and urine problems. Advertisers tout Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, offering sample bottles for ten cents and urging readers to mention the paper. Regular and large bottles sold at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Santa Claus of the Air Visits Austrian Castle
Just before the war an Austrian nobleman sent his grandchildren Christmas presents in the Santa Claus style. A pilot arrived by air and landed on the castle lawn, stepping out to greet the eager children who rushed outside to see the mysterious visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Old Father Christmas
Unitation Vacher Balm Ad Promises Quick Cough Cold Relief
An advertisement extols Vacher Balm as superior to imitations for coughs colds croup and sore hurts. It offers 25 cents per jar or tube and free samples by mail if druggists refuse or local agents are unavailable. Includes Cuticura baby skin relief and La Creole hair dressing ads and a note that administering the draft cost the United States 8600480 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. W. Vacher
Ifi
New Orleans
Adv
Dept. X
Boston
Hunt
Mississippi News From War Frames Across Counties
Mississippi town notes report Mobilization of firefighting units in Greenwood and labor calm at Gulfport naval station. Red Cross chapters in Biloxi and Laurel gain hundreds of members. Transfer of plant plans in Natchez and real estate purchases near Hazlehurst. Camp Shelby visits and local court actions touch Greenwood, Tupelo, Meridian, and Ripley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood
Milton Ferrill
Mra
T. Ferrill
Laurel
Camp Beauregard
Alexandria
Fayette
Eacee
Natchez
American Red Cross
Case
W. G. McNair
W. H. Watkins
Jackson
Mussel Shoals Highway Association
Corinth
Renee Laurel
B. A. Schneider
Fuel Administration
Werner
Mississippi Veterinary Medical Association
Meridian
A. W. Evans
C. L. Esper
James Knox
Prohibition Amendment Passed by Mississippi Legislature
Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the federal prohibition amendment as Gov. Bilbo delivers the longest message to the Legislature. Both houses quickly approve with eight dissenting votes, while Bilbo outlines extensive recommendations including funding for schools, hospitals, roads, and health programs. A later note reports the governor proposing sale of the governor's mansion and calls for a nationwide military highway study.
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Mississippi
Theo. G. Bilbo
Jackson
House
Senate
Bilbo
Mississippi Industrial and Training School
Jefferson Davis
State Board of Health
South Mississippi
Laurel
State Charity
East Mississippi
Meridian
Mattye Hersey
North Mississippi
Delta
Boards of Supervisors
Moving Pictures
Mississippi State Highway Commission
Chamberlain
Oregon
United States Senate
Dent
United States
President Wilson Sets Open Peace Terms For World
President Wilson addresses a joint session outlining fourteen open and just peace terms. He contrasts open covenants with secret deals and urges global cooperation, urging open diplomacy, free seas, removal of trade barriers, and national self determination including Russia, Belgium, France, Italy, the Balkans, and Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Congress
United States
Russia
U.one
America
Society of Free Nations
Belgium
France
Prussia
Alsace-Lorraine
Dodson's Liver Tone Endorsed Over Calomel Claims
A nutrition ad touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute for calomel, promising no salivation and benefits for biliousness and constipation. It alleges calomel harms bones and urges readers to try the liver remedy, with a money-back flourish if not better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodson
Calomel
Adv
Recipe for Gray Hair Tints and Fashion Notes
A vintage advertisement describes a home hair darkening formula using water, rum, Barbo Compound powder, and glycerine to gradually darken gray hair without coloring the scalp. It claims the mix is inexpensive, non greasy, and rub-off free, with full directions in each Barbo box. The item ends with musings on fashion and slenderness trends in watches.
Immediate Attention to Ailments and Remedies
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION should be given to sprains, swellings, bruises, rheumatism and neurologia. Keep Mansfield's Magic Arnica Liniment handy on the shelf. Three sizes 25c, 50c and $1.00. Renovine heart and nerve tonic claimed to rectify weakness. New York plans to drop 52 German teachers from grade schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
New York
Important to Mothers Castoria Examined for Signatures
Reading recalls a warning to check Castoria bottles for the signature In Use for Over. The item notes children cry for Fletcher's Castoria and mentions a car mishap in a quoted Philadelphia Public Ledger line about bargains. Another ad touts Mansfield's Cough Balsam as a remedy for pneumonia risk from a neglected cough. A classroom quip ends with a line about a teacher always shutting me up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
Philadelphia Public Ledger
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F. D. BH
D. F. Jamison
Summerville
S. C
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Jared
Marites
Gulfport
Arene
Vicksburg
B. A. Amis
W. W. Gilbert
Sence
Edgar G. Harris
Jones County
National War Savings Committee
Circuit Court
Ripley
J. L. Bates
Harry S. New
Indiana
Senate Military Committee
Camp Shelby
Sage
Ene
Washington County
H. ‘H. ‘Elmore
Lexington
Peate
Columbus
Turner C. Jewell
W. R
Jewell
Pershing
Kile Wilbanks
Tippah County
W. H. Thomas
Methodist Church
Summit
War Department
Washington, D. C
Hince
Washington County Medical Society
Baldwin
Lamart
T. B. Lewis
Greenville
J. J. Ferguson
Fred O'Neil
138Th Headquarters Company
James Gillespie
151St Infantry
National Box Company
Oktibbeha Circuit
SOLON
Penitentiary
Jatkeon
George Purvis
Parchman Farm
Sunfower
Ip F
Kaiser
Washington
Thlis
Lloyd George
England
Brest Litovsk
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Balkan
Teichstag
Great Britain
Jesman
Italy
Ottoman Empire
Dardanelles
Swagger
Saphire
Saffire
Wille
Caite
Sands
Voredinmrom Om
Keihin
Nite Roberts' Watt Co
Grand Avenue
Waukesha
Wis
Stifel
Solar Big Brother
L. Stifel & Sons Faalige Brace
Wheeling
San Francisco
Joseph
Saxton Bank
Louis
Victoria
Telegraph
M. Timerlin
Durant
Oklahoma
Lough
A. B. Richards Medicine CO
Sherman
Texas
Carter
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