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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1914
Page
6
Health and Beauty advertising extols Gossard Front-Lacing Corsets for abdominal support and true waist and back lines. It touts health and beauty as inseparable, urges fittings, lists prices from 2.00 to 5.00 and up, and claims equal treatment and competitive merit.
The Dothan agency promotes Schall Foot appliances and Milenese Silk Lisle Hose, offering gauze lisle stockings at 25 cents. The ad claims selection from across the country and emphasizes comfort and durability including elastic garter top and Split-top design to prevent runs.
Textile ad promotes solid hemstitched pillow cases direct from the mill saving jobber profit. It also touts full sized hemstitched bed sheets with quality described as standard and prices noted around 22 cents per pillow case and special sheet pricing near $1.00 to $1.25.
The notice proclaims a 36 inch Appleton linen substitute sheets as a desirable all pure linen quality, offered under the new tariff at 9¢ per inch, positioning it as a replacement for real linen.
A garbled OCR passage references epidemics, global scenes from Europe to the Americas, and a mention of a woman labeled a book agent facing social peril. Names are partial. the text hints at scandal, public sentiment, and a figure named Neers amid scattered geographic and historical allusions.
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