Golden Medical Discovery Benefited Granny and Mother
In Carroll Iowa a reader recalls using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for a raw lung sensation after measles torpid liver and poor appetite. The medicine eased nerves and improved sleep and appetite while the reader's mother benefited twenty years earlier. The remedy comes in liquid or tablets without alcohol and is sold by all druggists.
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Carroll
Iowa
Dr. Pierce
Knight
Crawford St
Pierce
Ilinois
Airplanes cross Channel above fog to reach France
A feature of English Channel flights shows planes flying 1100 to 1800 feet to pass above fog that veils the sea. Recent England to France passenger trips highlighted this method, reducing fog related danger for vessels below.
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English Channel
England
France
Cant Please a Woman In Postoperative Paradox
Conversation recounts a surgeon noting a successful operation while the patient's widow remains unhappy. The anecdote highlights differing perspectives on a surgical outcome. The exchange underscores human emotion in medical care during a period when medical humor was common.
Well Designed Home For Farm Keeps Young On Farm
The article discusses building a farm home that rivals city living with modern conveniences and labor saving devices. It argues a comfortable home would curb urban migration, detailing a two story layout with a versatile front living space, dining room, kitchen, washroom, and staff bedroom, aimed at easing farm life for families.
Modern Farm Home Demonstrates New Rural Living
Describes a story and a half farm house with running water electric light and labor saving devices. Highlights a screened sun porch a large front porch and adaptable storage and bedroom spaces showing how modern comforts keep farm families together as more homes are built.
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Tome
Atucco
Venom Across Species Explored By French Biologists
French biologists Dr. and Madame Marie Phisalix report venom effects in all snakes through blood and saliva. Experiments on birds, rodents, lizards and frogs show mucous and granular venoms elicit paralysis, stupor, vomiting and convulsions.
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Madame Marie Phisalix
Dreaming of Hairomens and omens in dream lore
An excerpt on dream interpretation links hair length color and condition to fate. Long hair signals cowardice and deceit, short black curls mean sorrow, red hair foreshadows evil omen for most but bid for barbers wealth, white hair brings honor, falling hair implies loss of a friend, well combed hair foresees happiness, tangled hair signals grief, longer darker hair promises wealth.
Aspirin and Clowns in Petrograd News Brief
An aspirin ad touts Bayer aspirin as safe proven by doctors and millions, with cheap twelve tab tins. A Stockholm paper notes a Petrograd circus persists, then a joke escalates to clowns being jailed by Soviet police after a small matchstick prank.
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Bayer
Petrograd
Aftonbladet
Stockholm
Relief Claim for Back Pain with St Jacobs Oil
An old advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as instant relief for lumbago sciatica and backache. It promises rapid easing without skin damage and urges trial with a small bottle from any drug store.
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St. Jacobs
Slow Gun Punchline From Indianapolis Courting Gag
A five year old son asks what a slow gun is. His father, a prominent advertiser, realizes the boy means courting as the slow gun in Indianapolis during visitors. The joke hinges on mishearing courtesy and slogan.
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Papa
John
Indianapolis
Swamp Root Kidney Liver Bladder Remedy Ad
A testimonial style advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. The copy claims strict purity, vegetable ingredients, and availability in medium and large bottles with a sample offer to send ten cents for trial.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Adv
Desired Privilege in a Theatre Audience Exchange
An amateur actor seeks a verdict from a diplomatic spectator. The spectator replies he knows a friend who would have paid $500 to hear the act, adding the friend is unfamiliar to the actor but as clean as a post, according to the American Legion Weekly.
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American Legion Weekly
Papa
Bobby
Cuticura Soap and Talents Offer Beauty Trio
Cuticura Soap cleanses the complexion and scalp while softening hands. Use Cuticura Ointment as needed to keep skin clear. Add Cuticura Talents for fragrance and overall toilet care.
Suspect Calls in Surprise Telephone Romance
A fragment shows a caller identified as a New York person making a playful but vague remark as she asks who is on the line. The scene hints at a surprise call to a sweetheart with a lighthearted tone.
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Lhella
New York
Man of Dauntless Spirit Captain Phillip and the Australian settlement
The article portrays Captain Arthur Phillip as a bold founder of New South Wales. It covers his May 1787 voyage from the Isle of Wight with 11 ships, the January 26, 1788 landing at Sydney Cove, and his humane leadership despite severe hardships.
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Australia
Arthur Phillip
New South Wales
Isle of Wight
Antipodes
Sydney Cove
Sydney Harbor
Commonwealth
Phillip
Cape
Colossal Farms Across Argentina Redefine Rural Life
Willard Price notes Argentina’s vast farms with 200000 acre norms and larger. The landscape features continuous grazing, endless cattle herds, sheep and ostriches, with no barns needed as hay grows year round. Train journeys link distant ranches to Buenos Aires packing plants.
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Argentina
Our
West
The
Republic
Buenos Aires
Willard Price
Christian Herald
Alarm Clock In Chicken Pen Boosts Egg Yield
Berwick correspondent reports Councilman Lester Lutz tested lighting and an alarm clock in his chicken pen. Lights at four am failed to wake the hens, but the clock wake improved production from six eggs daily to as high as eighteen from the same 20 leghorns. Visitors are invited to view the setup.
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Lester Lutz
Berwick
New York Tribune
Lutz
Provincialism and a Stranger's Evening on Main Street
A stranger boards the 7 20 train asking for a tower berth near the car’s middle. The porter, quoting a sharp remark, notes activity in town on Main Street where a candy store not run by a Greek stands out amid a scene of local old fashionedness.
Powdered Lemon Juice From Spray-Dried Juice
The article describes a new powdered lemon juice product derived from spray drying, adapted from milk powder processes. Originators are large powdered-milk manufacturers who may build a California factory. the method could also work for orange juice.
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California
Young Girl Finds Relief in Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Evansville Indiana story notes an eighteen year old girl relieved from months of irregular periods backache cold fatigue and cramps after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as recommended by her mother. The piece implies shared female health concerns and urges women to try the remedy.
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Evansville
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Linxwiler
Witty quip on marriage and speech from American Legion Weekly
A humorous line contrasts a wife's tongue with a runaway horse, noting a married man finds it easier to stop a horse than to curb his spouse's tongue. The quip reflects early 20th century social humor in a Legion Weekly context.
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Durham
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Wremola
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