Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Letters Featured
A mid promotion letter urges readers to try Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for menopausal symptoms including hot flashes suffocation headaches backache and dizziness. The note claims improved strength and work capacity after use and cites Victoria Koppt of Oak Ridge Ave. as the author. The advertisement concludes with a testimonial encouraging immediate use.
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Summit
N. J
Lydia ’. Pakhan
Victoria Koppt
Oak Ridge Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham
Danderine Promises Luscious Hair Revival
The ad touts Danderine as a hair treatment that can add length, thickness, shine, and vitality. It claims a 35 cent bottle restores color, vigor, and fullness, improves scalp condition, and prevents lifeless or thinning hair.
Prickly Ash Bitters Promoted for Workers Health
Advertises Prickly Ash Bitters as a worker’s friend that keeps kidney liver and bowel disorders at bay. Claims vigorous organ health for laborers and lists a price of 1.25 dollars per bottle.
Rich-Tone Praised By Doctor-Patient For Health Boost
A testimonial prints that Rich-Tone tonic has done more good than multiple doctors treatments. The writer states they were under care of several eminent physicians and now feel significantly improved, urging others who are physically weak to try the product.
Rich-Tone Promises New Energy and Vitality
Rich-Tone claims to enrich and purify blood, restore energy, and improve appetite and sleep. The product is marketed as restoring vigor and strengthening the body, with a price of 81.00 offered at a local drug store.
Nashville grocer claims Tanlac cures rheumatism
W. B. Pugh of 301 Hermitage Avenue Nashville reports gaining 24 pounds after taking Tanlac. He says two years of rheumatism and stomach trouble worsened with gas and smothering spells, but after starting Tanlac his appetite improved, nerves eased, weight increased, and he can sleep and work normally. Hamilton Drug Co sells Tanlac in Comanche.
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Tanlac
W. B. Pugh
Hermitage Avenue
Nashville
Tenn
Comanche
Hamilton Drug Co
Colonel House Visits Boyhood Haunts in Houston
In Houston on January 17 Col. E. M. House visited his brother and old friends. He recalled Joe Rice, now Union National Bank president, and toured the Buffalo Bayou swimming hole and the family home on Smith Street. Though recovering from illness, he kept to casual, nonpolitical visits with nieces and former associates.
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Houston
Col. E. M. House
Colonel House
Joe Rice
Rice
Union National Bank
Capitol Avenue
Buffalo Bayou
France
Old House
Smith Street
Edward M. House
Hoyes
Grins and Frowns Extracts from Coming Novel
A female figure covers her head with an anti oscalation mask supplied by the local board and places it on a man's shoulder. He drinks a malted milk without speaking. He calls her a fibber in a sharp aside.
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New York Evening Post
First syrup pitcher sighted in Chowchilla report
A Chicago Tribune note mentions Chowchilla as the site of a rare first and only individual syrup pitcher with ample syrup. A personal quarrel is recalled between Mr Meekton and his wife, who later forgave him, while a Baltimore Sun poem celebrates spring, love, and honey.
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California
Arvie T
Chowchilla
Chicago Tribune
Love
A Dead Pastime Has Prohibition Changes in Town
The Birmingham Age Herald notes that prohibition has altered local life, lamenting the absence of a prominent figure loudly haranguing a lamp post. The writer reflects on years of change and the quiet streets after the public stance on alcohol.
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Eitr Zel
Birmingham Age Herald
How Far to Camp In Crow's Best Route
Ol’ Timer says five miles as the crow flies to camp. John asks for the walking distance with rifle and full pack. Stars and Stripes, Washington, D.C.
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John
Stars and Stripes
Washington, D.C
Ambulance Train Named for American Authors in Italy
A motor ambulance train in Italy bore names of Henry W Longfellow Ralph W Emerson John G Whittier and Henry D Thoreau painted on its sides. In a town the drivers registered the ambulance names and a local paper noted a party of Americans including these authors visited the city that week.
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Italy
Henry W. Longfellow
Ralph W. Emerson
John G. Whittier
Henry D. Thoreau
Our City
Stars and Stripes
Washington, D. C
Prickly Ash Bitters Sold By Local Drug Firms
When digestion is poor and bowels unsettled the remedy is Prickly Ash Bitters. It cleanses vital organs purifies bowels and imparts strength vigor and cheerfulness. Price 1.25 per bottle. Hamilton Drug Co and Willem Reese Drug Co special agents.
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Hamilton Drug Co
Wim
Reese Drug Co
Reno vine Heart and nerve tonic sale note
Advert shows weak fainty heart and hysterics can be rectified by Reno vine a heart and nerve tonic priced 50e and 1.00 dollars with promotional mention of its use and cost.
War Savings Stamps Drive Surges in 11th District
Nearly 200 residents in the 11th Federal Reserve District have purchased the 1920 limit War Savings Stamps and Registered Treasury Savings Certificates. Government reports from Dallas show strong demand for the carmine War Savings Stamps. The January price is 4.12 dollars per stamp, 82.40 dollars for a 100 certificate, and 824 dollars for a 1,000 certificate.
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Dallas
Texas
Federal Reserve District
Treasury Savings
Government Savings Division
Syrup of Figs Promoted as Safe Child Laxative
An advertisement urges parents to choose California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children. It claims the product has a delicious fruit taste, provides full dosage directions on every bottle, and encourages mothers to say California when giving it to a child.
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California
Freezone Corn Cure Promises Easy Corn Removal
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap, painless corn remover. It claims a few drops stop pain instantly and let the corn be lifted out with no soreness, saying the bottle costs only a few cents and works on hard and soft corns and toe between the toes.
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Cincinnati
Dodson's Liver Tone Gains Plummet in Calomel Trade
In town druggists report falling calomel sales as Dodson's Liver Tone gains popularity. Vendors claim the vegetable remedy is gentle, safe for children and adults, with a money back guarantee if it fails to relieve liver sluggishness and constipation.
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Dodson
Death Lurks in a Weak Heart Remedy Promoted
An advertisement warns of heart weakness with a claimed cure called Reno vine advertised as the heart remedy. It urges early action, noting a price of 1.50 dollars and promises of relief if used promptly, while warning of a penalty for delay.
Export boom and bank loans push American trade 1919
A First National Bank report cites 1919 export totals around 7.24 billion and imports about 3.53 billion for eleven months, with government aims to expand exports. War Finance Corp extends 17 million in four loans to back exports of locomotives, machinery, and steel-mill reconstruction to Europe, including Poland, Belgium, France, and the UK.
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Ial
First National Bank
St. Louis
Secretary of Commerce
War Finance Corporation
Poland
England
France
Belgium
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Pugh
Sere
Mr. Meekton
Henrietta
J. R. Eanes & Company
J. R. Eanes
Jno
D. Waring
11Th Reserve
SOUTH
Calomel
Mr. Dodson
Ronry
Tue
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta, GA
BUICK
de Leon
Johnie Nunnelly
Neill
Neill Abstract Company
Wilson Abstract Company
R. L. Wilson
Mgr. Wilson Abstract Company
Durham & Hill
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