A Few Grins and a Scrambled Breakfast Joke
A humor spread notes a perturbed father after his daughter swaps toothpaste with oil paint and a child defends the swap. A traveling diner tale ends with fried eggs failing to fry due to a rough road.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
5
A humor spread notes a perturbed father after his daughter swaps toothpaste with oil paint and a child defends the swap. A traveling diner tale ends with fried eggs failing to fry due to a rough road.
An advertisement from Potts Drug Store touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as relief for sickness headaches biliousness and indigestion caused by clogged stomach and bowels. It promises relief by morning and targets readers suffering from heat related discomfort.
An Evansville mother and her two children visit relatives for the evening. The grown niece, fond of the children, offers candy to the youngsters. She then turns to the aunt and offers gum, but the aunt smiles and declines.
Get-It claims to ease corn pains and peel corns off in one piece in seconds. It dries instantly, allows walking with relief, and is money back guaranteed. Distributed by Widaby B. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
A terse courtroom exchange hints at a missing figure named Hen pekke. The judge quips about searching under a wife’s thumb as a wry lead into the mystery.
Many people link backache rheumatic pains and fatigue to age. The notice claims the real cause is kidney trouble and promotes Foley Kidney Pills to aid kidneys in removing impurities from the blood.
S M Oliver of Greensborough South Carolina writes Foley's Honey and Tar is just fine and kept in the house. It soothes and relieves hay fever asthma and coughs colds croup and bronchial affections as Druggist Potts notes. The Washington Star quotes a debate about Bolshevism.
A brief quip from London Opinion notes a line about Scottish heritage and a joking exchange about paternity and a sideboard. The humorous exchange plays on accents and national stereotypes in a witty aside.
D. Bell of St James City Florida says kidney trouble plagued him for three years and left him near failure for six months before Foley Kidney Pills. After using two bottles his pains disappeared and his backache rheumatic pains and stiff joints improved, per Potts the local druggist.
In a playful exchange Nero tells Petronius he will become a producer of lighting effects and then a real job as a motion picture director. The duo ends with Nero reaching for the spaghetti.
There is not anything like 'so many deaths from this disease noway before Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy came into such general use. When this remedy is given with castor oil as directed and proper care is taken of the diet, it is safe to say that fully ninety-nine out of every hundred cases recover. Mr. W. G. Campbell of Butler, Texas, says: "I have used Remedy for summer complaint in children. It is far ahead of anything I have ever used for this purpose." City Drug Co. Adv.1m.
Helen plans to consult a lawyer after Jack proposed on Sunday. Edith questions the legality, prompting legal curiosity in New Haven.
An advertisement from City Drug Co. promotes a medicine as a dependable remedy that earns the good opinion or praise of users. The copy urges readers to try it when in need of such relief.
Cartoon caption about Columbus referenced by Billy and a promotional line for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claiming digestive and liver benefits. Ends with a 35 cent ad for tea or tablets by A Potts.
A patient frets about paying the doctor's bill as he tosses on his bed seeking relief. The comic line highlights a humorous take on medical care costs and the concern over finances in illness.
A Philadelphia advertisement suggests simple remedies for loss of appetite. It advises fasting briefly then consuming meals at five hour intervals, moderate exercise, and treating constipation as a common cause. It endorses Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation relief.
London Opinion quotes Jack calling Edith interesting and beautiful while warning that she should not entrust her life to a man who begins deceiving her even in courtship. The dialogue reflects Victorian attitudes on trust and marriage.
Mrs. Henry Jewett of Clark Mills New York reports quick relief from a severe summer complaint after using Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad recommends the remedy as essential for every family and urges keeping it on hand.
The Buffalo Express notes humorous quips about Herbert Hoover returning to private life. The exchange imagines his first grocery bill and self-talk, reflecting public curiosity about the former president’s next steps.
Mrs. Robert Blair of Terre Haute Indiana writes that after taking Foley Kidney Pills her kidney trouble gradually disappeared her headaches stopped fatigue faded and vision cleared The advertisement notes the druggist Potts endorses the claim and mentions rheumatic pains ending.
A courtroom exchange quotes the judge asking why the witness did not aid the defendant in a fight and the witness replying he did not know who the defendant was. The Boston Transcript notes the moment as a limiting remark in the courtroom dialogue.
A brief exchange quotes a brakeman shouting all change while Mrs. Jasper tells her husband not to give any money to a train robber, as reported by the Buffalo Express.
It is safe to say many have found hay fever and asthma relief with Foley's Honey and Tar at home as with health resorts. It soothes choking and stuffed-up feeling for colds coughs and croup. Contains no opiates. Potts the Druggist.
The Northwestern Grain Dealers' association closed its fifth annual convention in Lewistown last Saturday night with officers elected W. T. Greely of Great Falls as president J. W. Watkins of Cascade as vice president and H. N. (rest of name cut) to fill the remaining post.
Stockett of Great Falls serves as treasurer. The next meeting place will be chosen later. The convention adopted resolutions affiliating with the National Grain Dealers association and asked the legislature to enact data collection to estimate crops. A resolution urged Montana be made a separate grain district with its own inspector instead of Minneapolis Spokane or Salt Lake.
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