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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
6
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offers Systemic Cure Claim
Catalog of catarrh symptoms and the claim that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrhal deafness by acting through the blood. States that deafness comes from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and that remedies must be constitutional to restore function. Offers a hundred dollar prize for any case not cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Gen Smith-Dorrien Unearths Etiquette Tale From South African War
A Gen Smith-Dorrien anecdote recalls a dispatch delivery during the South African War. An orderly presented papers informally, the general replied he would move in two hours and added you would kindly say please next time you speak to me. The exchange echoes his insistence on politeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith-Dorrien
Gibraltar
Smiche Dorrien
Xuehhenyi
Hla
Gloried the Thimble by Job Theo de Bry
Copper engraver Job Theo de Bry 1561 1623 created a sheet of thimbles with mythological scenes The top rim shows a Cupid or genie and inscriptions about love The rest mentions Huns whining in trenches and a quip about a widower and widow in a humorous aside
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Job Theo de Bry
Amoris
Love
New York Style Show Highlights Plush Pile Fabrics
A Chicago show spotlights luxurious pile fabrics and formal wear with a dramatic jacketed suit featuring a long uneven skirt, a high collar coat, and steel buttons. Designers embrace lengthened skirts, wide girdles, and straight-line silhouettes for evening gowns and accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Chicago
Bhaick
Heyer
Ihea
Batiste Ruffling Described For Collars And Laces
The article notes fine sheer batiste as the base for white ruffling used on collars, with narrow Vilenciennes lace gathered into small frills. It mentions fine tucks along lace bandings and credits twenty swirls from Hunters College in New York City who worked on farms in Tunlington County New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunters College
New York City
Tunlington County
New Jersey
Luxurious Winter Coats Steal Spotlight At Style Show
Models wore taupe wool fabrics with straight-cut lines and front plaits as Squirrel fur trim highlighted convertible collars and deep cuffs. Designers presented two coats with distinct textures and a rich palette including brown taupe gray blue and burgundy.
Housekeeping Notes on Variety in Menus and Fruit Uses
Practical kitchen guidance urges housewives to diversify meals to avoid monotony. Tips cover tabulating liked dishes, expanding rice and meat prep with dumplings and vegetables, and using fruit creatively in desserts, sauces, and quick drinks.
Switch Wives and All Are Pleased
New York report details a tangle of divorces and remarriages among four Rockville Centre residents. June 10 marks Natalie Crane Verity’s divorce filing from Elbert Verity and Ruth Frost’s co respondent status. Henry Frost’s divorce from Ruth Frost follows, and later Verity and Frost remarry, ending years of close ties and shared homes as separate paths unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elbert Wendell Verity, Jr
Henry E. Frost
Rockville Center
Long Island
Natalie Crane Verity
Ruth Edna Frost
Juge Jr
Filbert Wendell Verity, Jr
Verity
Ilye Ing
Thieves Take Man's Suit and Underwear in St Louis Robbery
Arthur Zagorka of St Louis sat on the curb at Sixth and Market streets waiting for a streetcar. He dozed and woke at four in the morning to find his $90, shoes, hat, cuff links, and watch stolen by thieves who left him in underwear and a suit. He reported the loss to the police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Arthur Zagorka
Lightning Storm Traps Climbers on San Francisco Peak
Alonzo Wells and George Dible were struck during a hail and lightning storm while climbing San Francisco Peak near Flagstaff. They were hospitalized after a flash enveloped the summit near the Sierra Club register. Dible lost teeth and suffered burns. Wells had torn clothing and injuries to his body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Aziz
San Francisco
Alonzo Wells
George Dible
Sierra Club
Dible
Convict Slips From Prison To Liberty In 1916 Escape
Warry Meyers escaped from the Ohio penitentiary slipping through shadows near a shop area and climbing a telephone pole. He slid 40 yards on a Bible wire then dropped to Chestnut Street. Meyers, serving a life sentence for burglary, had been paroled in 1915 but violated parole in 1917. He worked in the power house at the time of his escape, the first escape from the treotlury since 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Warry Meyers
Trusty
Ohio Penitentiary
Chest Gut
Meyers
Pickaway County
New Treotlury
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Oregon Farmer
Mrs Alters of Oregon Illinois says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after suffering abdominal trouble that left her unable to work on her six hundred chicken farm. She urges other women to try the remedy and notes the компании offer 40 years of experience for advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Ill
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Comeery Pound
D. M. Auters
R. R
Lydia E. Pinkham
Edicine Co
Lynn, Mass
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