California Fig Syrup Ad Promotes Child Remedy
An old advertisement touts genuine California Fig Syrup for babies and children, claiming it safely relieves constipation and colic without narcotics, wins praise for soothing the stomach, and starts the liver, urging shoppers to ask for the real product with proper directions.
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California
Frightful Lumber Fires Threaten U S Forests
The forest service warns that the United States may need imports as forests near exhaustion. Domestic wood is being used up four times faster than it can be renewed, with fires burning over 7,000,000 acres annually destroying mature trees and young growth alike.
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United States
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Lucky Husband
A strong woman tackled and captured a burglar, leaving him with visible injuries. The magistrate questions whether the victim should have harmed the burglar, noting she mistook him for her husband after waiting up three hours. The exchange highlights a plucky, mistaken-identity incident.
Whitening with Red Cross Ball Blue Ad
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as keeping cloths and towels white indefinitely through use, claiming the charm of a spotless bathroom.
The Wise Aunt and the Mirror Incantation
A selfish girl uses a candle to summon a mirror vision of her beloved while her aunt, entering the room, questions the ritual. The girl expects to see her true love, and the aunt cautions that the charm may fail.
Dandelion Butter Color Becomes Local Palate Item
A lighthearted note about Dandelion Butter Color sold in drug and general stores for 85 cents. An anecdote describes a soldier attempting to leave barracks unofficially to visit a girl and bartered with a sentry who mispronounces the password as Idiosyncrasy, prompting a decision to stay.
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Bill
Bayer Aspirin Ad Warns Buyers to Seek Bayer Mark
A broadcast style advertisement warns that genuine Bayer Aspirin is marked with the Bayer Cross and has been proven safe by millions for 23 years. It urges buyers to insist on the Bayer name on packaging or tablets to avoid dangerous imitations.
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Bayer
Pat's Halfway View of Lahinch Road
A roadside encounter in Ireland finds Pat answering travelers asking the distance to Lahinch. He declares they are half-way from here, revealing a humorous local travel quip as the motorists seek the final stretch of the journey.
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Ireland
Lahinch
Faith
Cascar ets for Liver and Bowels 10c a Box
Ad claims Cascarets cure billousness constipation and indigestion with 10 cent price. Contains brief line about drug stores and advertisement style. Includes a jumbled humor exchange about a church and a filling station site.
Keep Wells Avoid Sickness with Brandreth Pills Ad
An advertisement touts Brandreth Pills as a nightly cure for sickness. It claims one or two pills before bed cleanse the system purify the blood and keep you well.
Witty Household Quip Sparks Light Moment
A harassed housewife laments the lack of ham and eggs, saying it’s a pity they have neither ham nor eggs to make a simple breakfast. The remark captures a moment of domestic humor amid daily shortages.
No such animals besides man know a god
A reflection asserts humans alone possess knowledge of a deity, distinguishing mankind from all other creatures in capacity for divine awareness.
Captains of adventure
A historical portrait of Daniel Boone as a frontier hunter and leader. The narrative traces his capture by Shawnees, daring escape and return to Boonesborough, the siege by British allied forces, and Boone's later role in opening Kentucky and guiding westward expansion.
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Daniel Boone
Boone
Stuart
Plains
Kentucky
Boonesborough
George
Congress
New Republic
Illinois
Hamilton
King George
Licking River
Big Turtle
Black Fish
Fort Bodnesborough
George Rogers Clark
Vincennes
Logan
Israel
United States
Mississippi
Abraham the Pioneer Leader in Promises to a Blessed World
Lesson text outlines Abraham as the chosen leader who leaves Ur to travel to a land God will show. It highlights God’s promises of a great posterity a great name and blessing to all nations. Palestine as the land for Israel and the center of God’s redemptive plan is discussed with emphasis on obedience and faith.
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Abraham
Josh
Canaan
Lfe
God
Palestine
Israel
God’s Love and Faith in God’s Promises
A religious reflection on God’s love as the answer to questions and fears. The speaker cites trust in God’s goodness as the remedy for shadow, mystery, trouble, and fear, quoting Dewey on seeing God in creation.
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The Past and a Future Hope by Phillips Brooks
A fragment reflecting on escaping the past. The speaker notes some wish to erase history but asserts true release comes by building a future from past events and trusting that God will redeem what is not wasted.
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Holland
France
Saint Lawrence
Mississippi
America
Quebec
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Phillips Brooks
Hatred Compared to a Cancer in the Soul
A reflective essay warns that hatred toward a fellow-being corrupts the soul, eroding refine sensibilities and noble impulses and leaving the mind morose and deformed.
True Helpmate and the Welfare Worker list a claim
A poem fragment contrasts a man who drinks the Cup of Life with youth and a woman who speaks of a husband who does nothing to support his family. The Laundress jokes about chores and a poor man who dies rich, reflecting social roles and wartime humor.
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Chevrolet Motor Co
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Black Beaver
MFG
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Montana
Aspirin
Bayer Life
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