Making New Year Resolutions for 1917
A reflective piece urging readers to embrace positive New Year resolutions. It encourages evaluating the past year, cultivating happiness over mere material success, and choosing constructive actions such as health care, home routines, cheerful attitudes, and regular doctor checkups.
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Skinner Macaroni Ad Offers Free Cook Book
An Omaha Nebraska advertisement urges housewives to cut high priced meats due to rising living costs and serve Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti instead. It promises a free cook book with a hundred ways and invites women to write Skinner Mfg. Co. for details.
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Wedding Town Mystery and Navy Shortfall Highlight Oddities
A crowded French town wedding and the next day a funeral spark curiosity as a bystander and a gendarme exchange puzzled phrases. Separately, U S Navy reports 25 000 sailors below authorized strength, discussed in a Washington hearing. snippets note social irony and jokes about lawyers, inheritance, and daily life.
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Untitled Letter Highlights Disabilities and Social Attitudes
A Birmingham Age-Herald piece quotes a harsh letter describing a man bound to bed or chair, labeled as morally weak. The dialogue reflects stigmatizing views on illness and confinement, portraying long-term disability as punishment and inviting sympathy or critique.
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Women teachers in Philadelphia seek equal pay with men
A quotation contrasts socialists and plutocrats while Philadelphia woman schoolteachers push for wage parity with male teachers, arguing for equal pay based on principle and fairness.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Trade Employs Thousands of Women in Bookbinding
The bookbinding and printing trade in Philadelphia employs over 4,000 women, highlighting the major role of female labor in the city’s crafts sector and its economic impact.
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Philadelphia
How to Treat Dandruff and Hair Care Tips
An advertisement outlines dandruff treatment using Cuticura products. It promotes scalp cleansing with Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura shampoo, offering relief from itching burning crusts and scalings. The copy mentions requesting a booklet by mail and targets general audience health and beauty.
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