Works for Child Must Keep Well
Chicago woman Mary Enrico testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after severe pain and a failed operation. A sewing machine operator and single mother, she credits the medicine with enabling her to return to work and support her child. The ad urges other mothers to keep well with the product.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Lydia FE
Pinkhan
Lydia Pinkham
Mary Enrico
N. Carepenter St
Feathers Prohibition Spawns Bootlegging in High School News
Feathers of the bird of paradise are now prohibited. Then how do the women. Oh, there's some bootlegging going on, of course. Easy. Teacher named the seasons Pupli pepper salt vinegar and mustard. Hollywood High School News.
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Hollywood High School News
Grandmother Joins Curtis Household in Surprise Marriage
Mary Curtis learns her mother Grandmother Johnson moves in then shocks the family by announcing she has married Joe Whipple, the Home for Aged Cripples' superintendent, a man seven years younger but whom she deems fifteen years older in spirit. The uproar tests harmony as Caleb the neighbor, Wayne Phyllis and the phonograph lure, and truth remains that grandma remains spry and irrepressible.
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Johnson
Curtis
Wayne
Janet
West
Grandma Johnson
Mary
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John
Wells
Curtises
Phyllis
Leosen
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Joe Whipple
Sue
Smallest of Large Tribe Describes Tiny Deer of India
A first person description of the kanchil or little spotted deer living in India and nearby islands. The narrator shares details on size, appearance, habitat, behavior, reproduction, and defense methods, including a fear of predators and using a dead feigning tactic.
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Earth
India
Kanchil
Honesty and Purpose in Writing Claims
Bulwer Lytton declares honesty of purpose common to all writers, aims to promote truth and knowledge, and vows to correct any work shown to corrupt understanding or blur the line between right and wrong. He commits to condemning erroneous ideas and omitting them from his list.
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Bulwer Lytton
Lignite Coal Description and Regional Occurrence
Lignite is a brown soft brittle coal of vegetable origin mined west of the Mississippi in North Dakota Montana Utah Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico. It has limited use for heating homes and is unsuitable for steam boilers due to impurities that limit heat output compared with anthracite or bituminous coal.
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Mississippi River
North Dakota
Montana
Utah
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Castoria warnings and domestic anecdotes in ad filler
Excerpts warn mothers to examine Castoria bottles for authenticity and note its 80 year heritage. The text relates a domestic mishap at a landlady’s in Chicago with three nieces. Additional items promote Roman Eye Balsam and Cuticura soap, ointment, and talcum with brief gags and ads.
Choice lines from ads and classifieds across the country
A collage of archival ad notices shows requests for housekeeping help and nanny positions, room rentals, discounted Silk socks, a widower seeking a nurse for a young girl, and bird-laying hens for sale. Also mentions a baby carriage offered for sale due to a growing child.
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Everybody’s Magazine
Real Good Advice for Younger Businessmen Letter
A forwarded letter urges young businesspeople to treat the public as friends, offer honest value, and remain courteous to prospective patrons. It warns against belittling competitors as it damages trust in one’s own wares and arouses sympathy for the rival.
If all flesh is grass men ought to be less shy of lawn mowers
A provocative line suggesting people should be less afraid of lawn mowers as a metaphor for facing danger directly. The remark frames mowing as a test of courage and resilience.
Citizenship Hearing Reveals Humorous Moment at Court
At a naturalization hearing in Judge W. W. Thornton's court, George Mackay tested an applicant on U.S. government knowledge. When asked who the first president was, the applicant responded Washington, D. C., prompting Mackay to remark Just be off the D. C., while the applicant shrugged in amusement.
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United States
W. W. Thornton
Superior Court
George Mackay
United States Naturalization Officer
Washington, D. C
D. C
Moe
Washington Star
A Cunning Villain Proves More Dangerous Than Brutal Force
A proverb about danger contrasts a brutal overpowering figure with a smarter foe whose cunning poses subtler, deeper risk and strategic threat. It highlights how intellect in wrongdoing can surpass raw violence in threat level.
Prescription for Long Life From German Physician Revealed
Centenarians recall Doctor Fischweiler who died at 109 and claimed a long life formula. He purportedly advised placing the bed with the head to the north and lying flat with fists closed to align with northern telergic currents for healthier blood circulation.
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Fischweiler
Knicker-Would you say Smith is liar
Radio Fan-Well, I'd call him a two stage amplifier.
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