Kindergarten Helps Parents Teach Self-Reliance
A feature on early school enrollment shows four year olds like Mary and Jimmie entering class with mothers applying overindulgence. The piece advocates daily self help at home to build independence and cites Froebel on learning by doing as crucial for future self reliant, law abiding citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Campbell
Mary
Jimmy
Jimmie
Joseph Carlson
Joseph
Froebel
Habitual Constipation Remedy Promoted in Ad Copy
An advertisement promotes LAX FOS WITH PEPSIN a syrup laxative claiming to cure habitual constipation in 14 to 21 days with regular use. It touts prompt relief and pleasant taste priced at 60 cents per bottle and notes it stimulates and regulates bowel action. The text also mentions a historical note about women negotiating a peace treaty dubbed the Ladies' Peace led by Louisa of Savoy and Margaret of Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa of Savoy
Margaret of Austria
Ioves Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Vitality
An ad in Goodwins Weekly from Salt Lake City touts Ioves Tasteless Chill Tonic as restoring vitality by purifying and enriching the blood. It claims a strengthening invigorating effect and mentions a price in fistfuls of Fre. The piece also references Wilsons fourteen commandments and a claim to escape the ten commandments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price Fe
Wilson
Antiing
Goodwin
Salt Lake City
For Sale Residence With Land In Waco Texas
Classified notice offers a six room house with bath sleeping porch pantry and beveled glass doors plus 14 acres and a stable. Priced with $600 down and $25 monthly. Write to 1016 South Third St Waco Texas. Thrift stamps promotion included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Third St
Waco
Texas
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength and Strengthening
A vintage advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a blood purifier and iron supplement that restores energy and appetite. It claims the tonic reduces weakness and sickness, is not a patent medicine, and has been a trusted family remedy for malaria for over thirty-five years, priced at 60 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GROVE
Byrne Shorthand Promises Faster Writing and Higher Pay
An advertisement touts Byrne Shorthand as easier to learn, faster to write, and yielding higher salaries. Tyler Commercial College, Tyler Texas, claims exclusive rights in the region and offers catalogues with endorsements and former users who abandoned other systems for Byrne. It compares bookkeeping, cotton classing, and telegraphy as superior to rival curricula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrne
Pitman
Atx
Sloan-Dupleyan
Gregg
Chicago
Graham
Chartier
Tyler Commercial College
Tyler
Texas
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Wrigley
Wrigley’s Means
R. L. Batte
Cameron
Iove
R. R
A. PoRy
South Bound
G. C
S. F. Ry
the Herald
Webster
Anelle Her
Field
Mags
Agiscagen Ni Ia Tnt E Cya Chase dl President
Jas. F. Ballard
ST. Louis, MO
Pace- Marshall Drug Company
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