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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1916
Page
8
Variety of washable dresses in ginghams and lawns from 1.00 to 1.50. Lingerie dresses 3.50 to 5.00, middies 1.00 to 1.50. Wash dress fabrics 10c yard, voiles and flouncings 50c to 90c yard. Undermuslin gowns to near Top fashion items include summer waists and parasols with values around 1.00 and up.
A boy James Brice and girl Bessie Williams, both stammering after shocks, rescue each other from a dam accident. They bond during the peril, marry soon after recovery, and their speech improves within weeks.
A fragment from the New York Sun notes a Fredericksburg grave epitaph for Bere Nes Edward Heldon a medical practitioner described as the friend of William Sansone of Avon He died after a short illness in 1618 in his seventieth year as a relic of Shakespearean times and lore
A humorous exchange shows a doctor absent and a wife taking her turn. A husband jokes that revealing his vices would have led to being told to give them up. The piece then references Phillips Brooks retelling the Jonah tale and notes Jonah as a minor prophet.
A collection of clipped quotes from various papers notes science funding and ethics, hedges on medicine versus explosives, a joke about a fire loss and neighbors saving umbrellas, a quip about a wife, and a Disraeli aphorism on fate and action.
Miss Emma Verbryke of Lima Ohio reports two years of stomach trouble and biliousness with dizziness and weakness. She credits Chamberlains Tablets for rapid improvement after trying ads. Also mentioned is a grisly will request by Lieutenant de Dap for a hanging photograph to be sent to his father after execution.
A satirical guide describes a mass of sand pebbles and clay sealed tight and seeded with ten packets of the finest flowers that thrive anywhere. It promises towering blooms from March to November with five inch petals in vivid colors and notes a bizarre final step of preserving the result in alcohol for memory.
California tragedian McKean Buchanan famed for roaring Shakespearean roles and for late payments to lawyers. When he threatened to sue a city editor, he sought counsel but the lawyer said he was retained by Shakespeare’s ghost, ending the encounter.
Eugene Knight of Wilmington North Carolina reports Chamberlain's Tablets were the best he ever used for constipation and indigestion and his wife also benefited from indigestion relief. The ad touts the tablets as mild and gentle with an agreeable laxative effect and accessible everywhere.
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