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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1917
Page
6
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a wakeful night remedy for biliousness and headaches. It claims the candy-like tablets cleanse the stomach remove sour undigested food and foul gases take excess bile from the liver and flush waste from the bowels by morning.
A Washington Star quip frames prohibition as a public habit issue, comparing a nation to an individual that benefits from a period of abstinence after years of unrestricted liquor. Uncle Bill Bottletop voices the stance that restraint can restore balance.
Ottawa announced a novel farm labor incentive to attract workers for Western Canada. Each farmhand can claim 160 acres free as a homestead, with working time counting as residence on the land and the two year requirement replacing the prior three, addressing a 1917 crop labor shortage amid war.
A man admits being moved by Spenson’s story yet denies lending him a quarter after spotting Spenson change a ten-dollar bill. The exchange reveals a tense moment of moral calculation and social pressure.
An advertisement extols Danderine as a remedy for dandruff and hair loss. It claims thinning, brittle and colorless hair indicates a neglected scalp and that a 20 cent bottle restores luster, fullness and new hair growth across the scalp.
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In the Southwest pit silos store fodder to tame droughts. A 35 ton silo cost 4.45 dollars and fed 10 milch cows and 12 heifers through winter, keeping cattle in good condition. Silage preserves about 90 percent of forage value, unlike dry fodder.
The article notes early ostrich shipments to New York and California, terrapin farming in Georgia and New York, and William Hagan's musk rat farm on Delaware shores. It covers muskrat trapping methods, profits from a farm near Moorestown New Jersey, and cautions about the demanding nature of muskrat farming.
The ad claims Pape's Diapepsin digests all foods and relieves indigestion in five minutes. It promises no gas or belching and a restored sweet stomach after taking a fifty cent case from any store, with relief from dyspepsia.
Bliggins declares he is a socialist and desires universal wealth equality. He counters that he possesses little beyond hard luck and personal hardship.
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root advertised as a physician prescribe kidney liver and bladder remedy for years. Claims it strengthens organs and supports natural work. Sold by druggists with sample offer of ten cents from Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
Health department inspectors raided a private Manhattan basement honey plant after complaints of adulterated honey. Six women and one man were found working around a stove with pots and pans, boiling a mixture of sugar and about ten percent genuine honey, while no bees were present.
A man wearing a long beard and western hat enters the Parker House barber shop in Boston. He asks for a shave and haircut matching a photograph from five years ago, insisting the barber recreate his old appearance exactly. The barber complies using the photo as a pattern.
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