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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1922
Page
7
Dr Daniel G Carey promotes Prescription No 777 for kidney and bladder troubles. The ad claims 40 years of use, money back guarantee, and availability through Newcomb & Matthews and other pharmacists nationwide. It warns of kidney disease symptoms like eye puffiness backache and floating specks.
This excerpt advises a refined host to avoid showing concern for costs. It suggests keeping payments discreet, not scolding servers for high checks, and preventing guests from feeling their entertainment is a burden. It emphasizes tact and economy in social hosting.
An advertisement extols Jad Salts as a remedy to flush and re energize overworked kidneys. It claims uric acid in meat irritates the kidneys, causing pain, cloudy urine, and nighttime trips to the restroom, and promises safety and affordability. It also mentions a blue kitchen to enhance pleasant labor.
An ad touts Freezone as a painless cure for all types of corns and calluses. It claims instant relief with a drop, then removal by fingers, and notes a small bottle sold by druggists for a few cents.
The article reports that chewing gum sales in England, previously little used before the war, now total about 1 million dollars annually.
A memory from Prances Lester Warner recalls visits to grandmother and a nightly walk home with grandfather. They watched their shadows lengthen and shorten under streetlights, aiming to find when shadows matched their height. In a darkest stretch they tracked the North Star above a pointed tree, a memory that stays clear as light.
A Boston landlady complained as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson used a bedroom contraption connected to two machines. They claimed the devices were early telephone models, later selling their patents for lectures. Bell rejected a $100,000 offer from Western Union as his telephones expanded nationwide.
The article notes rare cases of enduring holdings in American hands. William Douglas, born in Scotland, settled near New London Connecticut in 1625 and kept the homestead through descendants. Gardiner's Island, linked to Lien Gardiner who bought it in 1680, remains with his descendants and the 1774 Gardiner home remains largely unchanged.
The U C C Club met at Mrs. Chas Butler home Friday night with a fine time and a lunch of pie sandwiches and coffee. Multiple visits on Sunday list Floyd Dahlburg and family at Williems home Chas Butler and family with Hirve Wilson near Lenox and others visiting C B Morgan and S J Kater and Miss Mae Wilson, with more social gatherings cited.
The Osage orange, not a real orange, is a nettle family tree known by Indians as the bow tree for making bows. Forest Service tests show a 30 inch by 2 inch block bending to 13,600 pounds, with a 200 pound impact yielding 15,520 pounds, strongest among tested woods ahead of monkey nut hickory.
A testimonial from A M Burkholder of Route No 2 Box 1 Wauseon Ohio praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a daughter with backache and legache leading to renewed strength and ability to work. The letter likens balance in women to a clock and endorses the product as trustworthy for restoring harmony and relieving symptoms.
Agnes Repplier admires books as dearest friends and values reading for intellectual growth. The Cunard Line steamer Acadia held a speed record in 1184, and gold amalgam is described as grains about the size of a pea.
Loyal Lone and Phildthen Classes of Christian Bible School present a three act farce “Always in Trouble” at the Christian Church in Slabtown Missouri to raise class funds for a new piano. Cast includes Misery Moon Tom Rissle Hiram Tutt Rosebud Reece Samantha Slade Paula Maleek Lula Pearl Gideon Blair Pat Keller and others. The comedy promises broad humor and lively character sketches.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as foolproof for reviving faded skirts dresses waists coats and draperies. It claims simple directions work on wool silk cotton linen and rayon with guaranteed even coloring and no streaking or fading.
Advertisement for Hollister's Gold EN Nugget Tablets claims relief from headaches and constipation. Mentions New comb and Matthews in the ad.
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