Four Weeks in Hospital in Cleveland Woman Endorses Remedy
Mrs W C Brown of 2344 W 12th St Cleveland credits four weeks in hospital and Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from severe lower abdominal pain and fainting. She urges others needing help to obtain a bottle at the first drugstore. The piece closes with a quip from a classroom exchange where a boy is called Fatty.
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Mrs. Brown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cleveland
Ohio
Mrs
W. C. Brown
12Th St
Dangers of Watered Coffee Prompts Government Alarm
A columnist claims watered coffee is a fraud on consumers, citing Army specs that roasts be dry and warning that waterlogged coffee loses less weight, raising health and honesty concerns. It urges buying reliable packaged brands like Arbuckle Brothers to avoid adulteration. Later notes a wholesome young woman knitting quietly on a streetcar, contrasted with male attention.
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United States
United States Army
Arbuckle Brothers
New York
Adv
Lemon Skin Softener Beauty Lotion Ad
A lemon based skin lotion recipe promises to whiten soften and beautify skin by mixing fresh lemon juice with three ounces of orchard white in a quarter pint bottle. Strain to remove pulp and apply daily to face neck arms and hands for months of fragrance and rosier skin.
University of Mississippi cuts student board costs amid war needs
The University of Mississippi kept boarding costs low during the war period. Monthly rates at the cooperative student club and dormitories ranged from 11.20 to 13.30, with Gordon Hall offering summer term board at 24 for the full term or 5 per week. Railroads offered a one third return fare, and nearby housing varied from 6 to 8 per week.
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University City
University of Mississippi
Ricks Hall
Gordon Hall
Oxford
Lyceum
Alabama Great Southern
New Orleans Great Northern
Scales
Mississippi Capitol
George A. Meadows
Ruth Torgerson
Meadows
H. F. Applewhite
Richard Pickering
United States Army
Mississippi
Charles R. Dalby
Mississippi National Guard
J. R. Hairston
Gulfport
The
National Guard
Intrastate rate hearing set by railroad commission
The June session of Mississippi’s railroad commission will hear proposals to raise intrastate rates about 15 percent on all commodities. Cases include Robinson Springs vs express lines, and actions on peanuts soybeans velvet beans meat cake hulls and more. Also notes Gov Bilbo honors aviatrix Miss Katharine Stinson and new state incorporations.
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Railroad Commission
Jackson
Robinson Springs Company
Commission
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Ex-Parte
Memphis
Citizens of
Lexington
Postal Telephone Company
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Shaw
Jackson and Eastern Railway Company
Union
Southern Railway Company
Mississippi
Meridian Traffic Bureau
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
Meridian
Mobile & Ohio
Claggett, Soourner Et al
Cumberland Telephone Company
Tupelo
Frisco
Bilbo
Katharine Stinson
Madison County
Orient
St. Francis Hotel
San Francisco
Cal
Japan
Aviation
Theo G. Bilbo
Miss Stinson
Dodson's Liver Tone replaces dangerous calomel nationwide
Local druggists report a sharp drop in calomel sales as Dodson's Liver Tone gains trust as a safe, pleasant remedy. It promises a full morning with clear heads, active livers, clean bowels, and no salivation, backed by money-back guarantees and wide availability. A side note recalls a misadventure of autoists chasing Nashville distance, humorously reduced to two hoops and a dollar.
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Dodson
Adv
Nashville
Brown County
Indianapolis News
Freezone corn remedy promises instant relief and removal
A Cincinnati authority touts freezone as a painless cure for corns and calluses. A few drops on the affected area allegedly lifts the entire corn, root and all, with no irritation to surrounding skin. The drug dries quickly and costs little. ask a local drugstore to stock it.
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Cincinnati
Real Patriot Urges Youth Service With Postcard Offer
Health and skin care ad claims Cuticura cream prevents small skin troubles from worsening with daily use. Free sample by mail with Book, address postcard to Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere. Also features a patriotic note praising a boy who volunteered to serve without seeking officer status.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Grove's Old Standard Tonic Ad Promises Health Boosts
An old newspaper ad touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic. It claims to act on the liver, drive out malaria, enrich the blood, and strengthen the system. The copy offers a money back guarantee and price details, with boastful lines about malaria and chills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ana
Tammany Is 128 Years Old With St Tammany History Highlighted
The piece recalls the 1789 founding of the secret St. Tammany or Columbian order by William Mooney in New York, its 1805 incorporation, 13 tribes, and hall at Tammany Hall since 1867, noting its political role and ties to Aaron Burr and Jefferson. It also explains the Indian chief Tamanend connection. It ends with a note on an experimental telegraph sender controlled by voice to emit signals via a diaphragm.
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Wiskinski
Tammany Hall
Fourteenth Street
Tammany
Aaron Burr
New York
Thomas Jefferson
Tamanend
New Britain Township
Bucks County
Pennsylvania
America
Freckles and Fortunes in a Mixed Newspaper Page
A collage of ad blurbs and jokes notes a freckle remedy guaranteed to remove spots, a farming stock joke, a recruiting notice seeking a capable youth to organize producers, and assorted humor lines about potatoes and youth. An Virginia farmer bankruptcy and Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills are also mentioned.
Threat from a British Pitman to German Waiter at Hotel
A wartime incident on Tyneside sees a pitman enraged after discovering a German waiter. He drags the waiter outside and threatens dire consequences if German staff wait on him again. He vows harsh punishment and warns the proprietor of future violence. The report cites London Tit-Bits as the source.
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Tyneside
London
Kidney remedy highly recommended and sold locally
A patient narrative praises Swamp Root for kidney and liver troubles with a case from Spring in which a dying man recovered after months of failure by doctors. Druggist L A Richardson of Marine Illinois endorses the product and invites readers to request a sample and information booklet. Also includes ads and jokes from the era about medicines and censorship.
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St. Louis
L. A. Richardson
Marine
Illinois
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Renghentn
Mae
Gale Vn Drug
Adv
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Serale. Ee
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Berry
Ala
N. Y
Ame
Castoria
Detroit Free Press
Baltimore American
India
Sheffield
John C. Sheffield
Magnolia
Theodore G. Bilbo
Annals of Mississippi
Industrial Institute and College For Young Women
Literacy Commission
Mississippi Literacy Commission
W. F. Bond
Miller Lumber Company
Boonville
Prentiss County
E. T. Miller
T. D. Rees
H. C. Nell
Blue Lake Hunting and Fishing Club
Jackson Hinds County
B. B. Wiggins
D. A. Shields
J. W. Cox
Planters Gin Company
Drew
Sunflower County
S. P. Roth
J. C. Newton
Producers Cotton Company
Ruleville
R. C. Terry
A. L. Pentecost
Field Artillery
Greenwood Military Organization
War Department
R. E. Wilson
Hattiesburg
W. W. Bond
State Normal College Alumni Association
Normal College
Tax Commission
State Tax Commission
the Christian Herald
Johnny
Famous Political Organization of
William Mooney
Farm To Table Association, Inc
Madison Avenue
Norfolk County
Virginia
Wright
LS Ave
Brooklyn
Pop
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Earth
Muriec Fyes
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