Grand Mother's Time Carroll Iowa Dr Pierce Discovery
In Grand Mothers Time Carroll Iowa a testimonial describes using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for a raw lung feeling after measles and a torpid liver with poor appetite. The writer notes improved nerves and sleep and cites the mother benefiting twenty years earlier. The remedy is sold in liquid or tablet form without alcohol by all druggists.
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Carroll
Iowa
Dr. Pierce
Knight
Crawford St
Pierce
Ilinois
Flying over fog clears route for cross-Channel flights
The article notes a aviation method to avoid Channel fog by cruising at 1,100 to 1,800 feet, enabling planes to pass above the fog layer. It highlights recent England to France passenger flights demonstrating this technique.
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English Channel
England
France
Can't Please a Woman: A Wry Medical Exchange
A physician quips that an operation was brilliantly successful except for the patient’s widow who did not seem pleased with the results. The exchange highlights a darkly comic take on medical outcomes and mortality.
Well Designed Home For Farm: Modern Conveniences For Rural Comfort
Article discusses how a well planned farm home can keep the young on the farm by combining city comforts with labor saving devices. Describes layout features such as a large front living area, dining room, compact kitchen, washroom for field workers, and a half story upper floor to suit a progressive farm family.
Modern Farm Homes Show Comforts of City Living
A feature on the rise of farm homes designed with city conveniences such as running water bathrooms and electric lighting. The example home is a story and a half frame structure with a large screened front porch, a living room with a brick chimney, two bedrooms on the main floor, and a storage room that can become a third bedroom with minor work.
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Tome
Atucco
Poisonous potential of all snakes and amphibians noted
French biologists Dr 0 and Madame Marie Phisalix report that blood and saliva of all snakes may exert toxic effects. Experiments on birds, rodents, and lizards show venomlike action from parotid secretions and snake blood, with batrachian mucous and granular venoms causing paralysis, stupor, vomiting, and convulsions.
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Madame Marie Phisalix
Dreams and Hair Signs in Antique Prose
The passage links dream hair traits to fate and character: long male hair signals weakness and deceit, red hair warns of evil omen, white hair heralds honor and wealth, falling hair forebodes loss, neat hair denotes happiness, tangled hair marks grief, and darker longer hair suggests wealth increase.
Aspirin and clowns in Petrograd mix with Bayer advice
The advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin tablets with trusted dosage guidance and warnings against substitutes. A Petrograd note humorously mentions clowns jailed by Soviet police after a staged exchange about firewood and a match.
St Jacobs Oil Advertises Quick Back Pain Relief
An advertisement promotes St Jacobs Oil as a fast, harmless remedy for backache lumbago sciatica and strains. It claims immediate relief after one rub reduces soreness stiffness and misery and notes a 60 year recommendation while warning kidneys do not cause back pain.
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St. Jacobs
Slow Gun and the Indianapolis Visit Mistaken Courtesies
A five year old asks what a slow gun is and reveals the idea of courting as a courtesy tactic. The advertising man realizes his son misheard his comment about courting being a slow gun during a visit by guests in Indianapolis.
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Papa
John
Indianapolis
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Health Ad Claim
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure safe remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It emphasizes vegetable ingredients non stimulant teaspoonful use and purity with a sample offer and mail order to Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Adv
Desired Privilege
An amateur performer asks for feedback and a diplomatic reply from a truthful audience member. The spectator notes a mysterious friend who would pay $500 to hear the act yet remains unnamed and described as “clean as a post.”
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American Legion Weekly
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Complexion
Cuticura Soap cleanses the complexion and scalp while softening hands. Olotment is recommended for periodic use to improve clarity. Cuticura Talents adds fragrance to the routine for a polished toilet trick.
Surprise Call From a Girl in New York
A brief note describes a girl in New York making a surprise telephone call to her sweetheart. The fragment captures a playful greeting and a voiced inquiry about who is being spoken to.
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Lhella
New York
Man of Dauntless Spirit: Captain Phillip and Australia’s Founding
The article praises Captain Arthur Phillip the first governor of New South Wales. It recounts his May 1787 voyage from the Isle of Wight with 11 ships and the January 26 1788 landing at Sydney Cove. It notes his leadership amid shortages and hardships and his humane dealings with Indigenous peoples. Phillip is hailed as a founder who started the Australian settlement and earned inclusion in the roll of honor of the Men Who Built the Empire.
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Australia
Arthur Phillip
New South Wales
Isle of Wight
Antipodes
Sydney Cove
Sydney Harbor
Commonwealth
Phillip
Cape
Colossal Farms Size Up Argentina in Vast Cattle Lands
Willard Price notes Argentina hosts vast ranches of 200 000 acres or more with many twice that size. Trains traverse the land of a single proprietor in a day, and stock such as cattle sheep and ostriches fill pens at stations for loading. Barns are unnecessary as hay grows year round.
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Argentina
Our
West
The
Republic
Buenos Aires
Willard Price
Christian Herald
Alarm Clock and Lights Boost Egg Yield Says Councilman
Berwick correspondent reports Councilman Lester Lutz tried electric lights in his chicken pen set to four each morning. The lights alone failed to wake the hens but he added an alarm clock ringing at four. He claims egg output rose from six to 12 to 14 eggs daily from 20 Rhode Island Reds and invites visitors to view the setup.
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Lester Lutz
Berwick
New York Tribune
Lutz
Provincialism on the Move Through a 7 20 Berth Demand
A stranger boards a train at 7 20 seeking a tower berth near the car center while debating local life. The porter jokes about progress and mentions a Main Street candy store not run by a Greek, signaling cultural friction in exchange.
Powdered Lemon Juice Comes From Powdered Milk Makers
One of the newest fruit products is powdered lemon juice made by reducing juice to a soluble powder. The process mirrors the spray method used to dry milk and is developed by leading powdered-milk manufacturers who plan a California factory for production. The method also works with orange juice.
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California
Young Girl Finds Relief in Pinkham Remedy
Evansville Indiana report tells of an eighteen year old girl who suffered months of irregular periods cramps backache coldness and fatigue while working in a millinery shop. After trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports relief and improved well being.
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Evansville
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Linxwiler
Phrase Swap Reveals Rural Wit From Legion Weekly
A humorous quip contrasts a child’s fear of heaven with a calm parent exchange. The punchline mocks a spouse's tongue as a force greater than a horse’s runaway speed. The joke showcases period American Legion Weekly humor and local bluntness.
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Papa
Bobby
American Legion Weekly
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