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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1914
Page
4
A spring fashion guide promotes taffeta gowns with short jackets and overskirts in blue and white. It details a minaret style with kimono sleeves, drapery, and trims, plus yardage and costs totaling under ten dollars for the dress and white blouse.
Julia Bottomley notes the revival of old coiffures with two pictured looks. The first features waved hair rolled into a French twist with a puff atop the head. The second shows a pompadoured front with loose waves and a centered upstanding puff, using small shell pins. Colored wigs appear in dress shows, inspiring shell combs with colored stones.
An advert promotes Stella Vitae as aid for fatigue nervousness aches pains blues and menopause changes. It cites Mrs D S Hamilton of Milner Ga praising benefits for her daughter and herself and offers a money back guarantee on the first bottle and a six bottle package for five dollars from Thacher Medicine Co Chattanooga Tenn.
In a London Tit-Bits anecdote, Farmers Dobbins and Hayseed barter over a prized cow. George values the animal beyond twelve pounds, citing his wife’s distress as a factor. The cheeky compromise proposes twelve pounds ten, with the wife’s sobs as a consideration.
A reader from Bienville, Louisiana describes years of painful hand eczema with skin breaks and blood, worsened by water. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with relief and notes world wide availability and a 32 page Skin Book offer.
An old advertisement touts a prescription for malaria or chills and fever. It claims five or six doses will break a case and that taking it as a tonic prevents recurrence. Price listed as 25 cents.
A fragment from an old publication features playful taglines about comfort, eye fashion, and dye products. It contrasts cautious sentiment with a blunt admonition about waste and money. The ad tone mirrors vintage promotional copy.
A lightship must remain fixed at its station with engine ready but not sail unless relieved for repairs. It marks danger where a lighthouse cannot be built and a bell buoy cannot warn. Crew are hazardously exposed, sinking only when life ends, protecting billions in commerce at a cost of about 6 million dollars annually.
A humorous reminiscence about James Stillman hosting British financiers in New York and his reveal of a $15,000 French car. The tale shifts to a quip on the Hen from Atlantic urging a Fourth of July chicken focus, celebrating poultry lore alongside Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts.
A jumble of old ads and quips promoting Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Hanford's Balsam and miscellaneous lines about women in Congress and railway bridges. The piece reads like a collection of campaign style slogans and patent medicine pitches with little cohesive narrative.
A note on animal behavior from "A Farmer's Note Book" by C. BE Phelps surveys quirks of horses that fear dogs or paper, mules startled by cucumbers, and cows distressed by hats. It cites Balaam's ass and balky teams in Aesop and Chaucer, linking bibbing and jibbing to a long tradition of animal mischief.
A five year old girl, Mary, asks what an encyclopedia is and imagines God making the world while turning pages in a Britannica volume marked Edn Eva. A home burglary is depicted through a mother’s wary reflection on what a burglar might seek in the house.
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