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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
3
Relief comes instantly and repeated doses over two hours break up a severe cold. The first dose opens blocked nostrils, eases head pressure, stops runny nose and headache, and relieves feverish weakness. It is sold cheaply at drugstores and requires no quinine.
A World War II era note recalls a veteran from Angers who rails at a neighbor who avoided service. The veteran, once a private in a base hospital, calls the man a slacker for merely holding a safe testing pilot job for Curtiss. The exchange ends with retort that the pilot’s work was essential for aviation safety.
Consumers are urged to examine Castoria bottles for the familiar signature as a trusted remedy used for over 80 years ensuring safety for infants and children. The familiar slogan Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria underscores the product's longstanding presence in households.
A fragment depicts a tense exchange where a woman laments lost compliments and a man admits his focus on market pages has dimmed his magic. The dialogue hints at tension between romance and practical preoccupations, with a hint of nostalgia for earlier praise.
A home or drugstore preparation combines water Bay Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine to darken gray hair gradually. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade. The formula claims to soften harsh hair, add gloss, not cool the scalp, and not rub off.
An unnamed Birmingham Age-Herald reader recounts overhearing a dramatic moment. A young man tells a young woman Dorother she must choose between her bulldog and him near a curbside motorcar, creating an unintended eavesdropping scene.
True world famous Aspirin prescribed by physicians for years. Bayer Tablets of Aspirin bear the Bayer Cross on each tablet and package to guard against imitation. Each package contains directions for colds, headache, neuralgia, toothache, earache, rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis and general pain. 12 tablets in a handy tin bore cost only a few cents. Druggists also offer larger Bayer packages.
A boy Floyd tells his mother he learned nothing on his first day of school. The next evening he proudly says he learned to keep his toes on the mark and jump over another boy. The tale reflects a child’s mischievous interpretation of school lessons.
An advertisement urges readers to use Cuticura Ointment for itching scalp and dandruff, followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water. It claims regular use will yield clear skin and soft white hands as part of daily toilet preparations.
A proverb asserts the hen remains content to scratch for a living even as her product commands high prices, serving as a lesson against pride in prosperity. The exchange notes the bird’s steady labor and lack of ostentation despite success.
An advertisement promotes Garfield Tea as a cure for constipation biliousness liver and kidney troubles. It urges readers to try the herbal blend for relief and health benefits.
Dialogue reveals confusion over who provided Bre to Helen and her mother. The minister says God gave them, while the mother asserts a different truth and an aunt claims Bre was given to someone else. The fragment hints at a family dispute about parentage and ownership.
Robert H. Moulton argues that American farmers shifted from peace time indifference to wartime efficiency, adopting fertilizer use, better seed, top-dressing, and livestock expansion. He cites a billion bushel wheat crop from 49 million acres, increased fertilizer applied, and improved stock breeding to explain higher yields and profits. He also outlines policy demands for farmers including improved credit, taxation, land reclamation, and coop-driven marketing.
National Farmers Union Senator Capper of Kansas records resolutions from its Memphis convention urging immediate enactment of the Kenyon Anderson bill to reform meat packing abuses, endorsing the Capper Heisman bill for farmer led bargaining with safeguards, and supporting an amendment to the federal loan act for nonfarm reputational access.
The New York agricultural experiment station showed that oyster shell aids hens, with a pound of shell roughly enabling seven dozen eggs. Chickens benefit when shell, ground bone, meat scraps, and grit are stocked in hoppers with ground grains in dry mash to balance their diet.
The piece argues owners should combat lice on livestock even when animals do not look infested. It notes lice appear late winter to early spring and harm is obvious in infested stock, insisting proactive treatment prevents broader damage.
The article urges maintaining good sod to preserve organic matter and fertility. It warns against mowing a field until hay yields drop, then abandoning the sod. If mown more than once yearly, fertilize annually after the first with manure or commercial fertilizer, manure being best for top-dressing. If manure is unavailable use equal parts nitrate of soda and field phosphate at 200 to 800 pounds per acre.
A dental ad style pitch urges readers to take Cascarets to cleanse the body of liver and bowel poison. It promises improved health, painless operation, and no harsh side effects unlike calomel, salts, or oils. The tone sells an inexpensive nightly treatment that works while you sleep.
An art dealer pitches a Daub leigh canvas titled The Portrait of Tady to a newly rich buyer. The bidder balks at a $100,000 price, questioning the subject and value as others in the scene react to the extravagant sum.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a pure kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims scientific herbal preparation not a stimulant and offers sample bottles for ten cents by mail from Binghamton NY.
In a Birmingham Age-Herald exchange, Mr Grabcomm remarks to his son that three months in the firm feels like an endurance test. The son concedes the strain, while the father jokes about his own endurance.
An advertisement emphasizes the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World as upholding truth in advertising. It states Truiner products including Bitter Wine are honest remedies, designed for digestion and stomach disorders, with other Truiner lines adhering to the truth principle. The notice cites Joseph Truiner Company at 133343 Ashland Ave Chicago Illinois and urges readers to ask dealers for confirmation.
Ethel recalls Jack selling her old love letters to buy an engagement ring for another girl. Grace questions the claim, while Ethel insists the act was real and leads to intrigue over relationships and deceit.
The advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally, purporting to cleanse the blood and affect mucous surfaces. The ad credits Westches & Co. as the proprietors from Toledo, Ohio.
A quick quip notes Grubb repeatedly complains of a cold home while his wife reportedly keeps the house warm when he is at home. The exchange implies household temperature tension without further detail.
Fragmentary ad copy宣传 touts a product encouraging purchase from a droggiet to maintain a clean system, bleed health and general well being. The text reads like a vintage pharmaceutical promotion with implied health benefits and a call to buy.
A brief verse exchange ponders how Bing’s glass achieves frost by heat of rivalry. The line “How was Bings frosen owt” answers with “By hot competition” in a playful beat from Baltiice American.
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