Lessons From a Garden: Observation, Care and Life
The passage extols a child’s growth through a small garden teaching observation care and life. It highlights planting bulbs such as Daffodil and Jonquil, encourages ceremony imagination and parental involvement, and stresses choosing reliable, successful activities for very young children. It ends by urging sharing with other parents.
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Daffodil
Jonquil
Fragmented humorous snippets from a Newark Advocate page
Odd clippings mention a blind man with counterfeit quarters a lawn mowing party and a vaudeville joke about Venus shapes. A furniture mechanism fits in a drawer front and a can opener tops cans. The tone resembles a newspaper page’s jumble of jokes ads and product notes.
Lemon Juice Beauty Lotion for Skin Whitening
A vintage advertisement promotes a cheap lemon juice lotion to remove tan freckles sallowness and redness. It instructs mixing lemon juice with orchard white to create a quarter pint cream to massage daily on face neck arms and hands for smoother clearer skin.
Daffodil and Jonquil Bulbs Teach Kids Garden Habits
Ellen Eddy Shaw offers a playful guide from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on growing daffodils and jonquils indoors. She compares bulbs to children, explains sand or stone setups, watering, darkness, and timing for blossoms, and suggests birthday plantings for fall celebrations.
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Ellen Eddy Shaw
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Jonquil
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Renewed Energy
Purported blood purifier and iron quinine tonic claims to restore energy and color, reduce weakness, and aid appetite. Advertises as iron and quinine syrup, a "tasting" remedy popular for malaria and strength, priced 60 cents per bottle.
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GROVE
Sailor and Soldier Jests From The Home Front
A collage of wartime banter and vignettes from veterans and civilians. Jokes about sea service and salt water, English lingo, misread phrases, nurses and a wounded black speaker in France. Small scenes include kissing by two girls, women in mens work, and a hearse driver recalling danger.
Card of Thanks to Community for Mrs McKinney Recovery
A church notice expresses gratitude for kindness shown during Mrs C M McKinney’s illness. She is recovering after three weeks of suffering and enjoyed time with two sons she had not seen in over a year. The family and community praise divine help and support. A Melbourne syndicate develops a tobacco plantation in Australia and a new machine washes the exterior of railroad cars. Subscribe for the Herald.
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C. M. McKinney
God
Hemstitching and alterations by Mrs Bedell in Austin
Hemstitching and plaiting services offered for out of town orders. Plaiting from 1 to 45 inches. Mens shirts made to measure. Wash materials shrunk. Contact Mrs B. E. Bedell at 1504 Congress Ave. Austin Texas. 20 pd.
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B. E. Bedell
Congress Ave
Austin
Texas
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