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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1910
Page
7
A jumble of vintage ads and notes. Prominent claims tout La Valliere peroxide, Libby’s Corned Beef recipes, and household time savers. Includes tips on mistletoe harvest in Brittany and a humorous quip about a sausage delivery from a Louisville paper.
A mother reports healthier, stronger children after changing foods. They now include fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, soft boiled eggs, and Postum for breakfast and supper, with meat and vegetables at dinner. Baby’s teething stomach troubles improved after Grape-Nuts with milk. A note invites reading The Road to Wellville and asks if readers have tried the product.
A Boston Herald verse reimagines Maud Muller as a modern matron who forgoes hay raking for porch sitting and social intrigue. The poem contrasts old rural duties with urban leisure as Maud asserts independence and enjoys autos over hay.
A collage of light quips and cartoon satire from early 20th century papers. Jokes touch on education, football, ancestry, debt, umbrellas, marriage, babies, Easter hats, vanity, forest denudation, milked railroads, life as a strawberry shortcake, and Abe Martin. The tone is breezy and humorous, with a string of one-liners and cartoon captions.
Bishop Mounsey recounts a Tamil man seeking a match through Archdeacon Sharp. The archdeacon finds a potential bride, but the father reveals the daughter refuses. He notes she warned she might kill herself if forced to marry the man. The report cites the London Globe.
In a Chicago News excerpt a farmer and his wife watch a large balloon glide overhead trailing its anchor. The wife warns that opportunists may snag the anchor or trap the farmer like a fish, while a man with a spyglass, an Indiana writer, observes for a book titled The Uplifting of the Farmer.
An advertisement touts CASCARETS as a weekly bowel and liver remedy. It claims frequent use improves health, urges readers to get a box now and take one tonight, and markets itself as the world's biggest seller with a million boxes monthly.
President David Starr Jordan, at Stanford University, cites E. H. Harriman Newcomb and Rockefeller to illustrate wealth used for humanity. He lauds the Rockefeller Institute as a wise, far-reaching use of wealth in advancing medical research.
The text notes that no English actress appeared before the Restoration and cites Pepys recording the first sight of women on stage in Beggar's Bush on January 3. It mentions disputed claims to the first English actress, naming Mrs Davenport, Mrs Knipp, and Mrs Davies, all appearing in 1661 and Davies lodging with Davenport's company in the manager’s house.
An Elwood Indiana reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her after considering surgery. The advertisement touts the remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and invites confidential letters for free advice from Mrs. Seat Mass.
A cluster of satirical notices and an advertisement mix with a moral about kidney health. The snippet cites Louisville Courier Journal humor and The Sketch, plus a testimonial for Dean's Kidney Pills from Punxsutawney, Pa. The closing line notes warns that popularity buys little lasting favor.
Woman from Argyle Michigan recounts severe pains from female trouble and a near death experience. After seven bottles of Cardui she reports relief and recovery claiming Cardui saved her life and recommending it as a general tonic for women.
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