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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
7
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap pain free remedy to lift hard and soft corns and calluses from feet. It claims instant relief with a tiny amount applied by fingers and costs only a few cents per treatment. The druggist sells the bottle, credited to a Cincinnati genius with the Ady name.
A compact dialogue exchange shows a mother asking why Elsie did not answer initially. Elsie replies she hesitated to speak, hoping to arrive as quickly as her words. The piece also defines a loafer as a man who loafs and has no bank account.
A six room square bungalow design is presented as an efficient choice for a medium family. It features three second floor bedrooms, a large porch, open living and dining rooms, a kitchen with adjacent pantry and laundry, and a full basement with heating and storage areas. Exterior uses frame brick or hollow tile with brick walls above a concrete foundation, aiming for attractive appearance without excess cost.
The article discusses exterior design elements like stucco walls lattice work and colonial porches and notes that wall cost varies with labor shortages freight rates and site location. It argues estimates of cost are easy to obtain from local architects contractors and material dealers and that building a home remains the most satisfactory option to fit size and style within a family’s means.
The New Illustrated reports Dartmoor as Britain's largest convict prison where up to 1,200 prisoners work. Convicts build the facilities, manufacture gear, cook, grow crops, tend livestock, and cloth and mend all garments for inmates and warders.
Readable fragments show boots and various items on display, including tin cups dishes and jugs made on the spot, with attention to on-site production and presentation of wares.
The article explains that Gold Stone is an opaque golden brown material studded with tiny bright gold crystals used for ornament. It was accidentally discovered near Murano on the Venetian coast when brass hinges fell into a pot of melted glass, producing the glassy gemstone.
Edith Redway finds a blue jewel box containing a pink cameo ring with inscription C to HE 2 11. She keeps it, hoping it proves a gift from a mysterious owner. In the square she meets a young man who later learns the ring’s initials point to Chester Barlow and Edith, revealing a hidden shared history.
Professor Flinders Petrie urges Britain to protect historic sites in Palestine after General Allenby's conquest. He calls for banning building on sacred ruins, favors a sanitary modern suburb elsewhere, and hopes further discoveries on clay tablets reveal early Palestine history.
In Dreas In Jugo Slavia a description of Trugo Slavian peasant women shows daily attire with long white linen skirts, embroidered aprons, beaded bib collars, gold and silver adornments, two embroidered chest panels, white veils, flowers in hair, worsted stockings, and baskets of fruit in sunlit town squares.
A light dialogue from a Boston Transcript cartoon panel shows Mrs Newrich worrying about missing old masters in the house while Newrich reassures that such works will appear in a few hundred years.
Old fashioned root and herb remedies claim to ease menopausal symptoms during this critical period. Patient letters describe using vegetable remedies and medical company responses in confidential correspondence. Snoring observations are noted by a reader.
Tell You How Each package of "Diamond Lyes" contains directions so simple that any woman can diamond dye a new fadeless color into worn shabby garments draperies coverings whether wool silk or cotton or mixed goods Buy "Diamond Dyes" no other kind then perfect results are guaranteed even if you have never dyed before Druggist has color card Adv Men have been arrested for taking things as they come Roosters do a lot of crowing but they hens egg them on.
A health ad states acids and gases damage the body and that Eatonic removes stomach miseries by neutralizing acid and aiding its exit from the body. It claims relief for bloating indigestion sour stomach and gas and notes over half a million users report benefits with a refundable guarantee.
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