Operation Averted A Woman Seeks Help for Painful Symptoms
Woman recounts long illness and crippling cramps before taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After three bottles she claims cure and urges publication to help others. A Columbus correspondent shares an anonymized moral tale about a state senator attending a funeral trip, noting his abstention from drinking.
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Philadelphia
Org
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tros. McGonigal
Hartville Street
Phila
War Declared on Rats by U S Govt
Washington prepares a nationwide campaign to kill rats seen as a threat to lives and property. Authorities cite annual food losses around two hundred million dollars and promote Stearns Paste as the effective remedy for households troubled by rats mice roaches or waterbugs.
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Washington
Ady
An Army Dentist Joke In London Tit Bits
A Garrison artillery gunner with a blacksmithing background returns home on furlough. A civilian asks about his decorations. He explains the hammer and pincers signify dentistry and uses the hammer to calm nervous soldiers with a humorous twist.
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Tommy
London
Unclear dialogue on Assyria Media and Carthage in war talk
Willis comments on being a historical scholar while Gillis notes no news of those nations declaring war on Germany. Judge recalls lack of papers showing acts of war.
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Willis
Assyria
Carthage
Gillis
Germany
Save Superannuated Oysters
Polluted oysters may be purified by a short tine in water with calcium hypochlorite. Oysters become safe food and retain flavor. A remark on reforming men and family happiness follows, noting faults vary by person.
Western Canada lands lure settlers despite tax on wild land
Land owners oppose a surtax on uncultivated western lands aimed at pushing speculative owners to sell or farm. With high wheat profits and rising farming returns, buyers rush to acquire lands at lower prices, while farmers anticipate large future gains as land absorbs onto the market. Western Canada promotes opportunities for settlers to move this winter and begin profitable farming next year.
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Western Canada
Canada
United States
Western
Putin
Borepines Ie
Warner Ormere Vocal
Aureage
Bennett
Bee Bidg
Omaha
Kindness Behind the Library Visits
Private Simkins returns from the front to find his girl dating another man. She explains the other’s daily town strolls to the library were acts of kindness to check if he was killed.
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Simkins
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad
An old advertisement promises $100 for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal action through the bloodstream and mucous surfaces, sold by druggists for over forty years with free testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
South African Furniture Market Stimulated by Munitions Demand
Furniture manufacturing in South Africa has surged as steel tube factories shift to munitions production, boosting the local furniture market and increasing demand for wooden bedsteads and related items.
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South Africa
Buogland
Price Joins the Army in a Quick Career Move
A humorous note reports that Price has joined the army, prompting wry remarks about rapid advancement. The aside juxtaposes Sunday piety with six days of depravity, implying a light moral quip in the column.
Growers urged to save potato crop
Washington warns small growers on proper potato storage to cut winter losses. Key points include airflow to prevent sweating, drying potatoes before storage, protecting from frost, sorting diseased tubers, and ventilating storage at near 35 degrees F. Seed potatoes should be boxed and stored in well lit rooms at 84 to 40 degrees to improve next season's crop.
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Washington
Lou D. Sweet
Potato Division
United States Food Administration
French grenadier loses hands in blast and marries on farm
Jean Ledrans, a French peasant and grenadier, trained recruits when a grenade burst killing six and wounding him, taking his hands and an eye. After recovery he married his fiancée and now tends a farm using prosthetic forearm devices to drive, plow, and work the fields.
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London
Jean Ledrans
Ledrans
France
Timeeff
Milk Types and Infant Digestibility Among Cows
The text compares milk from Jersey Guernsey Ayrshire and Holstein cows noting Jersey and Guernsey milk is rich but unsuitable for infants while Ayrshire and Holstein milks have better digestibility due to different casein properties.
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Jersey
Guernsey
Hes Bheve
Taft Tours Balloon School as 800 Prepare for Air Army
Ex president Taft inspected Fort Omaha balloon school last week and praised the program as the eyes of the artillery. About 800 trainees are undergoing air service instruction to direct artillery fire in France and Belgium, with replacements filling the vacancies.
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Omaha
Taft
Fort Omaha
France
Belgium
Berlin
Requirements for Observation Balloon Pilot Commission at Fort Omaha
The Fort Omaha Balloon School seeks qualified applicants nationwide. candidates must be US citizens aged 19 to 36, energetic, of good moral character, and clean. After exams, they join as first class private in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps and train. Upon qualifying as balloon pilots, they are commissioned as first lieutenants with a $100 monthly stipend plus quarters and food. Applications go to the Aviation Examining Board at Fort Omaha, Nebraska.
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United States Army Balloon School
Fort Omaha
United States
Aviation
Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps
Aviation Section
Signal Officers Reserve Corps
President Aviation Examining Board
Neh
Peruna praised by Rogersville resident for cough cure
Mr W B Brown of Rogersville Tennessee reports severe la grippe in 1909, then a bad cough. He says five bottles of Peruna stopped his cough and cured his catarrh, raising his weight from 115 to 148 pounds and urging others with catarrh to try the remedy.
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W. 8. Brown
F. D
Rogersville
Tennessee
Time to Fight Mice and Fuel Gas as Spare Power
A column urges strict housekeeping to deter mice with no exposed food and sealed entryways. It notes an option between a mouse trap or a cat, and labels wasteful harboring of pests a crime. The piece also reports on coal gas powered balloon bikes as a cheap petrol substitute in England.
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England
No Such Thing Happiness Prompts Mirthful Musings
A quip about happiness and marriage suggests seeking solace in a dog rather than solitary contentment. The brief remark hints at social expectations about matrimony and companionship with humor. No individuals or organizations are named.
Purifying Soap and Healing Ointment Adette
For skin troubles the soap cleanses and purifies while the ointment soothes and heals. They provide relief from itching eczema pimples dandruff and baby skin issues. Sample by mail with a book and address postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston. Melancholy jokes about leaves and moving to an apartment end note.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Merge of All Swedish Match Factories Formed
Stockholm October 22. A new corporation uniting Sweden's match factories is announced. It will issue 400 000 shares at 200 crowns each. Des Moines October 22. Attorney General H M Harper orders a recount of ballots from Monday's special election on constitutional prohibition. Official returns show wets ahead by about 1 000 in a total of 480 000 votes.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Iowa
Des Moines
H. M. Harper
Mohammedans in Egypt and Sudan Mostly Population
A dated quip notes nine of ten in Egypt and Sudan are Mohammedans and adds a golf joke about neighbors. The remark reflects period stereotype and casual humor.
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Egypt
Sudan
Russ Fleet Bottled Up in Moon Sound Action
Russian battleship Slavia and other vessels were damaged as a German cordon barred Russian ships in Moon Sound between Ovsel feland and Gulf of Min land. The engagement left Russian ships unable to break the blockade and forced retreat toward the Gulf of Nien.
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Petrograd
Jon Moon Sound
Gulf of Minland
Nien
Ovsel Feland
Moon Mound
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