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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
3
Designers embrace frugality with novel fabric blends like wool with silk and crepe georgette tunics over wool skirts. Paris favors serge and organdse for chic, practical two-in-one dresses. Sports wear expands with velvet sport coats, sleeveless and long sleeves, paired with satin, khaki, and silk skirts.
An advertisement extols August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion and stimulates bile to cleanse the system. It claims to cure a range of stomach ailments and liver inactivity and notes its sale in civilized countries. A second vignette describes a child learning about animal tails and contrasting moods with a story about a cat and a dog.
War conditions cut off supply of digitalis forcing a shift to home tinctures made from wild foxglove common in Washington and Oregon. The Washington Oregon foxglove tinctures compare favorably with imported articles.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine offering $100 for a cured case of catarrh. It claims internal action through the blood to mucous membranes and mentions Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the seller.
Fragmentary ad copy mentions Jonah and a remark about saving daylight. Includes a Dr. Pierce’s Pellets line promoting liver bowels and stomach relief with one Pellet for laxative and three for cathartic. Also notes contentment from doing much and a remark on matrimonial packages not always what they seem.
A physician lacking a nurse's chart is shown a home made record with many non medical remarks. The wife explains she could not record all the husband used many swear words about the doctor, so she apologized for him.
An Irish worker named Pat was on a brick hoist when the machine moved him to the top floor and returned him to the ground suddenly. A fellow workman yelled from scaffolding asking if he was hurt, and Pat replied telling him to go to the devil, noting the man had passed him twice without speaking.
A short squib in the Baltimore American uses a pun to describe a person as a “natural-born screw” in a humorous quip about the subject.
Mrs Boynton sees her son Edmund exit with a new porous plaster found in the medicine closet The boy explains he will test what tune it will play on the pianola The anecdote comes from Puck magazine reflecting a playful childhood moment
Bessie notes all accounts but bank balance. the lines blur between care and reliance as family roles and finances intertwine in a terse reminiscence of household dynamics.
The quote likens a peace talk posture to a Kansas farmer elected to the state legislature who served as speaker pro tem. A motion to lay a resolution on the table was put to the house with the prompt to say aye or no, highlighting contrariness in proceedings.
Fragmentary line from a humorous piece mentions a "Step-go" signal used in the parlor and a lighthearted exchange about trouble with a ter’s beaux. Context and full attribution are unclear in the OCR snippet.
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