Best Medicine for Women Promoted by Lydia E. Pinkham
An advertisement from Portsmouth Ohio touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for irregularities and abdominal pains. It cites a four decades claim of patient benefit and invites renal ailment guidance from the company. A wobbling kitchen scene from the Chicago Tribune is included as a humorous aside.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
E. Pinkham
Renal
Lydia E. Co
Peruna
Columbus
Recipe for Gray Hair Remedy from Barbo Compound
A quoted home remedy describes mixing Ba Rum water Barbo Compound and glycerine to darken hair. It claims to restore faded or streaked hair without staining the scalp or becoming sticky, with full directions available in Barbo Compound boxes.
Living Up to It and Witty War-Time Adages
A compact clipping presents a mix of mottos and exchanges about bravery, fairness, and gender norms. It juxtaposes a line about merit with a joking remark on women and loyalty, ending with a cynical note on jealousy as a bitter crop.
North Dakota Briefs Highlight War Years Aftermath
A wide sweep of North Dakota notes reports reopenings at the state university and a flood control meeting in Valley City. Other items cover anti flu inoculations, Red Cross enrollments, bank clearing houses, a mining of gopher pests, and local crimes and civic plans across cities including Grand Forks Bismarck Fargo Minot Devils Lake and Dickinson.
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Williston
Bismarck
State Railroad Commission
Grand Forks
Nelson County
Red Cross
Valley City
North Dakota
Flood Control Association
State Teachers’ Retirement Fund
North Dakota Teachers’ Pension Act
Agricultural College
Cottonwood
Burleigh County
Federal
Lisbon
Tom Curtis
Devils Lake
Minot
Burlington
Noonan
Woodworth
William A. Sunday
Colorado
Ed. Sunday
Dickinson
Stark County
Blue Sky” Law Commission
Hanki
John Baum
State Livestock Sanitary Board
United States Livestock Sanitary Association
Chicago
J. R. Waters
Carbury
Albert B
Fargo
North Dakota Agricultural College
Washington
France
Rose Lawry
Rogers
North
Wayne File
Baker
Mont
Towner
Frank Oberdear
Here
Carl Bartness
Versailles
Henry J. Linde
United States Supreme Court
Elsendale
Dickey County
Extension Department
The
Max
Bert Bendickson
Soo Line
William Langer
United States District Court
D. M. Noah
State Penitentiary
1S Clearing House Association
Beach
A. C. Townley
Townley
National Nonpartisan League
Charles F. Amidon
Federal Court
Ray Martin
Hank Gilbertson
Germans Fire on Paderewski Celebrants in Poznan
Report from Warsaw notes several children were killed when German forces fired on a Paderewski celebration in Posern parading streets. Paderewski survived after bullets struck his room while he met with British Col. Wade.
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Warsaw
Posen
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Paderewski
Wade
Japanese to Withdraw 25000 From Siberia
Tokyo dispatch to the Express quotes a December 27 war office statement announcing 25000 Japanese troops will be withdrawn from Siberia and Japan will maintain only the smallest forces there. Public opinion in London deplores the move amid Allied disunity and jealousy.
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London
Siberia
Tokio
The
Express
Japanese War Office
Japan
Turks Violate Armistice Accuse Armenians of Outrage
London report quotes authorities claiming Turkish forces retreating from Caucasus territories have committed outrages on Armenians despite the armistice terms. The dispatch says individual Turks allegedly acknowledge plans to annihilate the Armenian population as part of a final blow.
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London
Caucasus
Fifty Escape From Mine Fire At Hamilton Coal
Fifty men escaped unharmed from the Hamilton Coal company mine shaft in Cherokee Kansas when a fire destroyed the chutes and part of the tipple. Loss was set at fifty thousand dollars. The fire’s origin remained unknown.
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Cherokee
Kan
Hamilton Coal Company
British Denies Baltic Ultimatum Report
The foreign office denies sending any ultimatum to the German commander in the Baltic region and says there are no reports of large British forces landing in the Baltic provinces.
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London
Foreign Office
Baltic
Explosion toll put at 3.66 million in New Jersey plant blast
The War department told Congress that appropriations to compensate private property destroyed by last October’s Gillespie Shell loading plant explosions in New Jersey will total about 3,658,000 dollars. Officials anticipate 10,000 claims.
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Washington
New Jersey
Gillespie Shell
War Department
Congress
Board of Army
A Lengthy Man Named in Correct Order
A Birmingham Age-Herald quote praises Godspur as a well informed man with a remarkable memory. He can name in sequence every title Wilhelm left behind as he headed for Holland, illustrating his recall of trivial details.
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Godspur
Wilhelm
Holland
Birmingham Age-Herald
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Instant Digestive Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin tablets as quick relief for indigestion, sour stomach, and gas with a low cost and drugstore availability. The rest of the clipping includes unrelated quips about a singer and camera curiosity.
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Pape
Soldier Draft Resister Told of His Death in France
John H. Everett awoke to a telegram from Washington claiming he had been killed in action in France. He had never been in France or worn a military uniform and had never been called for service despite being of draft age, a startling mixup reported by the Wilmington News in a comic strip caption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Everett
Washington
France
Everett
Wilmington News
Eatonic touted to aid post flu recovery via digestive cleansing
An old Civil War veteran praises Eatonic for restoring appetite and strength after flu and bad medicines. The letter claims the remedy cleanses acidity and toxins from the digestive tract, aiding recovery and enabling normal eating again.
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Eatonic
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Chicago Tribune
Doan
Bright
Louis McKeen
Thompson 6&T
Bottineau
N. D
Dean
Altrou
Dean’s
Doan’s
Foster Ulburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Fangsia
Far For & A Tasaleg Co
American Fur Co
Peyne
Pearer
Sioux City
Lows
Berlin
HUNS
Coblenz
Lemberg
Copenhagen
Lissa
Nakel
Ernst
Prussia
Poses
Vienna
Politiken
Fletcher
Simon
Cartoons Magazine
Cascara
Beck
Mr. Hill
Ice and
Consumers Fish CO
Grand Co
First National Bank
Inge
Boone Bess
Wien
Eveit
Fowler
C. S. Martis
Batonic
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