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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
7
The article extols white georgette summer frocks with green satin trim and bias bands. It highlights airy yet durable georgette fabrics, elaborate collars and jabots in organza and crepe de chine, and coordinated blouses, neckwear, and accessories. It notes how sheer materials stay cool, with embellishments like hemstitching and eyelet work, and suggests these outfits brighten midsummer days.
The author argues that oil remains after washing, as soap clings tenaciously and resists rinsing. Better to skip washing hair than leave soap in it, since the oil holds the soap until water loosens it.
A New York dispatch portrays Charles Evans Hughes as a shrewd defender of financial interests, a corporation-minded figure who disguises sympathy for common citizens. Democrats accuse him of anti-people policies, cite his governor record, and promise an aggressive campaign across states including Maine.
The piece argues Progressive Republicans must ally with Democrats to back President Wilson’s bid for re-election. Aman, a seventy two year old, has enrolled at a western college to study, not football. The note mocks the misquote sorry for beg pardon and dismisses Philippine cigars as costly, implying indifference to events overseas.
A humorous tale from Pearson's Weekly recalls a voyage privation with a captain's orders to lay to. The sailor mentions modest lunch fare beef wine and an egg sourced from the bulwarks porthole and captain.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a mild herbal remedy for kidney liver and bladder trouble with sample offers by mail. The page also includes a joke about a lunatic asylum minister and a keeper noting a single lucid moment every seven years.
Mr. G W Head of Nashville reports his boy recovered from a severe lingering cough after whooping cough and typhoid fever using Lung Vita. The ad claims Lung Vita helps consumption asthma colds whooping cough croup and grippe. Price 1 75 and booklet available from Nashville Medicine Co. Room 161 Steger Building Nashville Tenn.
A farmer greets his wife returning home and jokes that she spoke to the horse along the way. She confirms she talked to the horse, and he warns that she may have overdone it, implying the talking wore out the horse.
An advertisement touts Plantation Chill Tonic with a money back guarantee to drive away chills and fever for 50 cents. The note adds a risky line about a pretty girl entering a dark hall with a man, implying a flirtatious motive.
An advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable liver cleanser that replaces calomel, claiming it cleanses the liver without damaging bones or salivating. It urges readers to switch, highlighting guaranteed relief of headaches dizziness and constipation and urging purchase from druggists.
A man woke to buzzing above his bed and learned it was a vacuuming hired girl in the upstairs flat. After a tense moment they discuss love and define scene with his plea and her reply. The piece ends with a street ad style aside promoting Renovine heart tonic and a remark about workers and pay.
An odd clippage mentions a dubious claim about Spartan women and torture, promotes a product titled Femenina for female disorders priced at 50c and 1.00, then notes Sir Francis Elliot as a past oarsman and jokes about male patronage of circuses when home supports fail.
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