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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1923
Page
8
An advertisement touts Boone's Pinkham's Compound as a cure for ailments specific to women. It claims 38 out of 100 women benefit and asserts the medicine, refined over 50 years, eliminates symptoms for many, urging women to try it and see improvement. The copy closely follows period ad rhetoric from the Lynn Massachusetts company.
An ad style item touts a quick jelly dessert from diluted gelatin and Plymouth Rock Gel latine claiming perfect jelly flavor. It also touts shaving soap promising skin benefits and multipurpose use for shaving bathing and shampooing amid whimsical lines.
A collection of culinary directions and literary lines, listing boiled dinners and various baked and stewed dishes. The text includes vegetable preparations, chowder, parsnip stews, pineapple pie filling, oatmeal gema, and scattered verse lines from Oliver Wendell Holmes.
John L. Terry of Springfield recounts how Tanlac restored his health six years ago after persistent illness. He cites a second course years later with continued relief and urges others to try the medicine. The ad notes over 37 million bottles sold and that Tanlac is sold by druggists.
Mrs Barton French recalls a story from Lord Dunraven about Jay Gould in Paris. Signs reading A Lover were mistaken for Mas tiage ads as Gould wandered past landmarks, ending with the remark Who’s his hero, Lover, and a nod to Bel Canto days.
A jumble of captions and vignettes including Senator Ashurst story, Roman remains found near Keyn sham England, and North Sea fishing harvest estimates. Also snippets of dialect humor about Victrola and Radio names, plus a misquoted New York Herald remark.
A dialogue recalls a postponed marriage to Dick and a quick remarriage to Gladys. Virginia asks why, while he replies he was never pinched for speed but Sve een slapped, reflecting a humorous, fragmentary news item from Cuba.
A fragment from a bygone issue blends a child mischief tale with a science note on radium energy seen in amateur microscopy. It juxtaposes a girl’s remark about dust on a statue with a vivid description of radium’s ceaseless particle bombardment and a wry aside on telephone operators and women’s rights.
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