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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
6
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It claims relief from backache nervousness irregularities and other weaknesses, urging women to write for more information and noting decades of use.
An old style advertisement extols August Flower as a universal remedy for tired overworked stomachs. It claims to stimulate the liver and cleanse the intestines to ease indigestion fermentation sour stomach and constipation during August’s harvest season and picnic excesses. The ad states the product is sold everywhere.
A witness recounts a burn incident and a parent guiding children to handle fireworks safely. The report emphasizes preventing injuries by teaching proper handling and demonstrating safe practices during celebrations.
A long পাঠ of letters from Marines Roger Scott and Lieut Carroll Single shares life on Charlotte Amalie and Guam. It describes Cha-Chas French Leeward Islanders, Bluebeard castles, mating customs, and hard drinking canoemen. Single’s Rhine frontier observations contrast stolid villagers with German beauties and castle life, while Corporal Fred G. Taylor recounts jungle treks in Guam, coral reefs, and a leper colony near a Spanish road.
A Georgia lake near Valdosta periodically disappears for two to three weeks every three or four years, then reappears. Spanning about three miles by three quarters of a mile with 12 feet depth, it drains through subterranean passages leaving a sandy beach as a mammoth bed drains away. After a month the water returns, restoring the lake to its former size.
A playful note from Thrift Magazine celebrates a new full dress shirt stud that won't explode during vesting. The quip suggests daring progress in everyday wear with a wink at past near misses and future triumphs.
Ex service men should be helped into peacetime roles, not shunned. Col Arthur Wood urges employers to offer jobs and support ex service workers as they transition. The dialogue shows domestic and wartime attitudes clashing with new employment and social integration ideas.
An old ad claims Dr Kilmar’s Swamp-Root strengthens kidney liver and bladder, praised by doctors and druggists. It urges readers to start treatment now, and offers a trial bottle by sending ten cents to Dr Lime & Go in Binghamton for mail order.
An old advertisement stresses buying genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer cross mark and proper directions. It notes uses for headache toothache earache neuralgia and colds, mentions tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger packages, and states aspirin is a Bayer trademark.
An advertisement extols Gold Medal Haarlem for rheumatism and kidney ailments. It promises quick relief by restoring kidney health, clearing urinary tracts, and curing lumbago sciatica and related pains through its herbal oils. The copy warns against imitations and urges asking for the Gold Medal brand at drugstores.
An advertisement touts Vader-Balm as a quick fix for summer colds, nervous headache, inflammation, mumps and fever with offer of free samples or 22c tubes by mail. It includes a sales pitch by M. W. Vacher Inc, New Orleans, and a clipped note on Indian life expectancy.
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