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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
7
Paris shoppers face candy price hikes after new measures curb gas electricity and petroleum use. Retailers charge seven to eight cents for tallow candies and six to seven cents for five inch cans. A stray note shows a man chasing change with a potatoes joke.
An odd jumble of old newspaper clippings touts Pape's Diapepsin as a rapid cure for indigestion and stomach distress. The ad promises instant relief in five minutes, urges readers to buy a fifty cent case, and claims the remedy is harmless. The page also includes a joke and a brief note about rabbit meat lessons and a sculpture exhibit, all in a chaotic composite of ads and snippets.
Puzzling ad page text touts Swamp Root as kidney liver and blood medicine with claims of nine years of grateful customers. Mentions Dr Kilmer Co sample bottle offer and retail price. Contains stray cryptic lines and unrelated dialogue fragments.
Hussar recalls a bullet lodged in his right thigh at the Marne, drilled and tied from his neck, claiming luck and faith in a talisman. He cites many later battles on the Somme where he and comrades endured heavy losses yet he remained unharmed, attributing it to the bullet and a playful superstition.
A series of expert robberies rattles the Hunter district with the $4000 vault heist at Hunter Bank and other daylight thefts. Police link the incidents to a coordinated gang targeting banks and merchants from Wheat to Rondo as authorities wire in to track the sophisticated thieves.
A Quorum Court resolution approved funds and a plan to build a modern tuberculosis treatment cottage costing about 6000 dollars with yearly maintenance around 10000 dollars. The project, part of a larger effort to improve health facilities, follows widespread meetings in Conway Faulkner and neighboring areas endorsing a paved road and regional development.
A tornado roared through Curtis twelve miles southwest of Arkadeyiya causing widespread destruction. Reports describe collapsed structures, snapped trees, and fires from ruptured utilities. Rescue efforts and evacuations followed as authorities assessed damage across multiple towns and counties.
A vintage ad touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel mercury laxatives. It claims calomel causes severe nausea, headaches, and bone damage, while Liver Tone restores liver function, improves mood, and normalizes bowels. The copy asserts the product is vegetable and suitable for children, with a money back guarantee.
Fragmentary ad text promotes a horse distemper remedy and sale, mentioning vaccines and doses, pricing in cents and dollars, and distribution by druggists and horse goods houses. It includes scattered medical cautions and promotional phrases, with numerous garbled phrases and illegible segments throughout.
An old style advice column item promotes Red Cross Blue as a trusted laundry blue for whiteness, claiming clothes come out whiter with this product and noting a large package is inexpensive at grocers.
An old medical ad promotes California Syrup of Figs as a harmless laxative for children and adults. It describes widespread benefits for feverish, constipated children and urges mothers to check tongues and administer a teaspoonful, asserting rapid relief and universal efficacy.
A staged dialogue reveals social constraints as a clever woman asks why he never married and he responds with a sly comment about avoiding entangling alliances while treating a metaphorical floating debt as liquidated.
The ad stresses kidneys as essential to a clean healthy body and links toxin buildup to joint stiffness, rheumatic pains, backache, headaches, and swelling. It promotes Anuric from Dr Pierce and Golden Medical Discovery with testimonials, urging readers to buy by mail or at drug stores.
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