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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
6
The American Tobacco Company reports experiments to improve smoking tobaccos by toasting Burley, producing the toasted Lucky Strike cigarettes. The process moistens the tobacco and enhances flavor, driving unprecedented demand.
A wartime style guide suggests disguising gifts for invalids to lift spirits. It describes turning a bottle of grape juice or medicine into a comical doll by wrapping a dress, tying cloth, drawing features, and adding a hat. The aim is to make medicine time pleasant and reduce suffering.
A Detroit Free Press quotation asserts the finest praise is dying as the man his wife cherishes. It adds a critique that some pay more to maintain appearances than to live. The note cites Barcelona Spain with 800000 inhabitants.
The article recalls George Washington promoting farm markets in colonial Alexandria, sending a market cart to Belle Haven, and ties to the Carlyle House. It notes Washington’s role in Braddock’s staff, the blue and white room, and Canterbury influence of Christchurch Church where he spoke against allegiance to Britain.
A short humorous anecdote from Representative Joseph B. Thompson of Oklahoma about a boy Johnny who visits his grandma every Saturday for cocoanut cake. He reasons he can smell the cake despite only a tiny crumb being enough, highlighting a light community tale from the lobby of a Washington club era.
Florida holds about 4 000 000 acres awaiting drainage with contracts for draining nearly the Everglades. A dog in Hennstler New Hampshire chased a hedgehog up a tree and required three boys to rescue it from 40 feet high. A French aviator compass indicates deviation and north. A two wheel coal trailer for a ton capacity behind a runabout is announced. An European signaling device for moving trains uses a sight sinking rail as trains pass. Magnetic pulley methods now serve 34 industries to remove metals from nonmetallic material.
Public warning urges caution with grip and cough medicines listing morphine heroin codeine chloroform and other narcotics or poisons. Labels warn these should be doctor directed and may be fatal in five doses. Father John’s Medicine promoted as safe and effective.
Dialogue reveals marital dispute with Mrs Flatbush denying a claim and Mr Flatbush asserting the opposite. The exchange centers on who knew what at the time of the statement and whether one party was asleep during the prior remark.
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a cough soother and lung inflammation relief. It claims quick relief from bronchial irritation and easy morning expectoration, noting fifty two years of American sales and use for lung trouble asthma croup bronchitis and similar conditions.
A brief fragment from The Jester features a flirtatious exchange between Jack and Jim. They joke about loving each other as a business of Marquis of Queensberry.
A witty exchange centers on a black eye and a sleeping man who spoke in his sleep. The dialogue hinges on clever wordplay about courage and misadventure.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. it is a constitutional issue. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to purify the blood to heal mucous surfaces. Formulated from tonics and blood purifiers, it is sold by druggists for 75 cents with testimonials available.
A courtroom exchange unfolds with a colored complainant explaining the car struck him between streets fifty-six and fifty-seven. The judge probes how the vehicle could strike without touching his body, leading to a remark about silence and spousal guessing.
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