Lydia Pinkham’s Compound touted for women’s health in McLean Nebraska
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women with functional disturbances. Mrs Kopppelmann of McLean Nebraska credits health gains and a healthy baby to the remedy. The ad claims decades of use and invites inquiries to Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Iowa, Mass. A light joke about Peggy resembling her grandmother follows.
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McLean, Neb
Lydia E. Pinkham
John Koppelmann
Re No
McLean
Nebraska
America
Lydia E. Pinkha
Prohibited Feasts and Health Remedies Ad
An assorted old newspaper section advertises granite as fertilizer and Garfield Tea for constipation and biliousness. It promotes PAZO OINTMENT for piles and Cuticura for dandruff with mail samples and drugstore availability.
Golden Deed Story From School Ledger
A primary pupil submitted a handwritten tale about a girl with no parents who is married by a man to “keep her up,” illustrating the moral tale with pictures. The Indianapolis News reprints the line as part of a child’s golden deed collection.
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Indianapolis News
Ice supply urgency urged in New Jersey legislature
In Trenton the assembly adopted a concurrent resolution calling for immediate harvesting and storage of three times normal ice to protect public health and food during summer. The measure, prompted by Governor Edge, seeks wide press publicity to prevent ignorance of ice shortage risks.
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Trenton
House
Hirshfield
Passaic County
Edge
Executive Department
New York
Odell Hong
New Jersey
Ar. Simpson
Mr. Hirshfield
Senate
Eummond
Ackerson
Monmouth County
Hammond
McGlennon
James M. Stratton
Hospital Board Opposes Bill On Nursing Education
Christ Hospital council in Jersey City adopted resolutions protesting proposed laws in the legislature that would lower the current education requirements for trained nurses. Governor Edge has received copies of these resolutions.
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Edge
Council of Christ Hospital
Jersey City
Recipe for gray hair and health elixirs in ads
A vintage advertisement page promotes Bay Rum and Barbo Compound to darken gray hair without staining the scalp. It also touts Garfield Tea for blood purification and relief from rheumatism. Humorous quotes close the column.
Fragmented Quotations and Odd Facts From A Historic Page
A collection of quips and curious notes from an early 20th century page includes snappy exchanges on judges and shrouds, a scientist using radium on plants, a remark on judging by size, a pun about an orchestra, and assorted lines about beef, holidays, hemp imports at Hull in 1916, and American apples sold in Liverpool.
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David Roberts
Peggy
Patrice
Mercy
Fletcher
Frank
Maude
Dept. X
Boston
Cascara
Mr. Hill
Parce
American Flag Mfg. CO
Easton
Public Utilities Commission
McAteer
Assembly
Wolverton
Jeffreys
Mr. Morgan
Lewis
Thirshfield
Cnr
Stewart
Newark
Hobare
MeaAteer
Mercer County
Wells
Senate Appropriations Committee
Burington
KHL
Jess Ucute
Constabulary
Messrs
Bostock
Gallagher
Rand
Marzulli
Pruden
Assemblyman
Essex
Thomas Mott Osborne
Mercer
Mr. Richards
Atlantic
Casey Haines
Mackay
McCran
Richards
Fithlin
Runyon
Stevens
Sturgess
Compensation Aid Bureau
Mr. GH
County Boards of Freeholders
William L. Dill
State Motor Vehicle Department
Sperker Runyon
Highway Committee
Dean’s
Thomas “A. Knight
Ninth St
East St. Louis
Ill
Pai
Yeliaf
Dean
A. M. Eggmann
Notary Public
Mr. Knight
Doagn
Kidn Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Garfield
Uplate
Brata
United States
Mother Gray
Mother Gray CO
le Roy
Hale
Pike
Festus Pester
Hull
England
Biggers
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Henry
Liverpool
Paris Medicine Co
Beaumont and Pine Sts
St. Louis
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