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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
6
A visit to the laboratory reveals the care behind Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The facility uses over 950,000 pounds of herbs yearly and employs strict sterilization and pasteurization to ensure purity. Letters from women praising its effects are published to attest to its efficacy.
Fragmentary ad style text touts pills with imprecise cures for pimples headaches and breath issues. It parodies medical language and references a “perfect man” joke about remedies. The tone mimics a late historical advertisement with exaggerated claims.
An alarming ad touts Eatonio as a cure for acid stomach and related symptoms. It promises instant relief from belching, heartburn, gas, and bloating, claiming improved health, strength, and energy after taking the remedy. A money back guarantee seals the offer.
A survey of Christmas poetry shows England America and distant lands shaping carols and verses to their climates and histories. From Longfellow Riley and Moore to California ballads and New England harbor scenes, the season reflects varied landscapes and spiritual strains.
The excerpt blends dialect poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Margaret E. Sangster as it frames Christmas feelings. It contrasts the festive mood with a nostalgic ache, noting Christmas as both mystery and merriment. The voice reflects early 20th century sentiment and seasonal verse.
An experienced woman shares a yearly practice of dressing 50 dolls for 60 orphans in a local institution. She buys dolls wholesale, has patterns and fabric scraps on hand, and advises not to sew the clothes on permanently, since the girls love dressing and undressing the dolls.
Ralph C. Norton and wife plan to extend Christmas boxes to all 120000 Belgian soldiers this year. The $40000 gift includes chocolate toilet soup and candy with a bilingual Flemish French greeting card. Norton Institute graduates have long aided Belgians with front line access and Bible distribution.
The report notes England’s prison population fell from 18 000 prewar to 0 500 now. It mentions portable electric devices to screen coal, a claim of 20 percent fuel savings by adding camphor to gasoline, and a pulley with depressions in its surface preventing bolts from sipping. It also covers wool plans, Japanese wool tours, and limited use of Japanese women as conductors on the Mino Electric line due to labor shortages.
The Emergency Meet corporation erects a two inch thick walled concrete motion picture theater in England measuring 80 by 45 feet and 18 feet high led by Beatrice Eaton with a girl chorus of employees. In Sweden a pea flour loaf dated to Viking times reveals peas grown in Europe over a millennium ago.
A clipped Louisville Courier Journal quip notes that money talks and even the kalder can hear our voices echoing through the city. The fragment reflects urban chatter on wealth and influence in everyday life.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamps Root as a pure non habit forming kidney liver and bladder remedy. It emphasizes plant based ingredients and urges readers to obtain a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co at Binghamton New York. The ad ends with a light note about talking to friends.
History repeats itself with private history echoed by neighbors. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio claim a long history in advising internal medicine and blood mucous surface treatments for over forty years. Testimonials cited but fragmentary in this ad style notice.
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