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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
3
Ridgway Pennsylvania and Tennille Georgia letters praise Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for relief from female trouble and backache enabling housework. An unnamed Boston Transcript exchange notes a male speaker and a female responder swapping lines about the product.
An advertisement urges cutting meat intake for health and cost reasons and promotes Skinner Mfg Co of Omaha Nebraska with a free recipe book. It notes Pennsylvania savings banks with 622,442 depositors and 239,804,866 dollars in time deposits as a separate financial statistic.
A playful exchange cites a scientist using a fly on a tiny wagon to pull 170 times its weight, sparking a humorous remark from the baldheaded husband about the fly drawing 170 others. The wife notes the experiment’s potential, while the husband jokes about the feat.
A Cincinnati authority endorses freezone as a painless corn cure. Applied to the corn it relieves soreness, and the root lifts out with the corn. The drug dries quickly and shrivels the corn without irritating surrounding skin. A small bottle costs little and can remove hard or soft corns and calluses from the feet. If not stocked, ask the druggist to order it from the wholesale house.
A brief social quip from the Kansas City Journal features two women joking about Harold kissing a glove and a powder puff while one recalls being away. The exchange plays on fashion items and propriety in a lighthearted, domestic humor tone.
A collage of terse ad copy and light jokes including Red Cross Ball Blue bleach promising whiter clothes, a five cent package note for grocers, lines about proposals and a Garfield Tea gag, and a brief zoology classroom quip about a rabbit Pupilles left hindfoot is lucky.
Fragmentary draft notes describe a claimed medical discovery by Doctor Pierce addressing scrofula and blood conditions. Mentions a Beraca rondita and tablets or injections as possible forms of remedy, but details are unclear and sources are inconsistent.
President Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term with Vice President Marshall sworn in again. A heavily military parade marks the ceremony with guards from West Point, Annapolis, Culver and various states, as Washington glows with flags and civic display.
A famous actress shares a home remedy to darken gray hair using Bay Rum, es Compound, glycerine, and water. The formula, sold with Barbo Compound, promises gradual tinting without stickiness or rub-off and is described as inexpensive to prepare at home.
A humorous exchange about laughter at meals. A doctor claims humor aids digestion while a husband jokes that laughing at his wife’s cooking could provoke a reaction, suggesting a playful domestic argument.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a prescribed kidney and bladder remedy. It claims rapid results, urges readers to buy 50 cent and one dollar bottles, and offers a sample bottle for ten cents by mail to Binghamton New York.
An excerpt notes Garfield Tea purifying the blood to eradicate rheumatism dyspepsia and many chronic ailments. The dialogue humorously contrasts fashion trends with wellness claims and jokes about a birth stone and a grindstone as a father’s reply.
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Danderine claiming dandruff stops within ten minutes and falling hair ceases, with weeks of use bringing new hair growth. It touts easy application, a shiny soft look, and a 25 cent bottle from any store. It ends with a conversational joke about bachelor girls.
A peculiar note requests sending 10c to Dr Pierce at the Invalids Hotel in Buffalo for a large trial package related to Anuria Reek mae tetdee thie, a term likely garbled in OCR. The message lacks clear recipient, purpose, or outcome details.
A 1920s public notice highlights Vap-O-Rub Vap-O Rub Salve for colds and croup relief. It cites reports from Kansas and Missouri mothers praising its throat chest application plus warmth layer. Read letters from Mrs Schwartz and Mrs Thomas detailing respiratory relief and night sleep improvements.
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