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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1919
Page
7
A vintage advertisement promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a cheap easy home remedy to darken faded hair. The copy claims natural color return within days using a dampened comb, with testimonials from a downtown druggist and a promise of glossy soft hair. The page also contains a brief, offhand letter writing quip about juries.
A Tiny bottle of Freezone coats the corns and calluses on feet for only a few cents. Apply drops to corns and hard skin on toes and soles to lift them off. Skin beneath remains pink and healthy without soreness or irritation.
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News features a rambling exchange about a mournful joke “Mother's Hair Has Turned to Liver” and mentions a “Bicone Pleaser” and “Doctor Peasant Pellets” claimed to regulate bowels and stomach, illustrating period comic prose.
An old advertisement touts Kilmer’s Swamp-Root as a premier cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It claims fast, gentle results from a vegetable formula and offers sample bottles for ten cents. The page also includes miscellaneous ads about earning $40 to $60 weekly with nursery stock.
Orphan Barton Baynes moves in with relatives on a farm near Lickityspilt around 1826. He befriends Sally Dunkelberg and the Silent Woman Roving Kate, learns about wealth from Amos Grimshaw, and encounters Silas Wright Jr. A payoff threat from Mr. Grimshaw tests the Baynes farm. At sixteen, Barton aids a stranger killed by a highwayman, fights, and wounds the assailant before escape.
A narrator recalls a sunlit August romance with a girl whose eyes mirror a blue sky. Their kiss ignites a hopeful love as Uncle Peabody guides him toward schooling with Michael Hacket arriving to offer shelter and work. The chapter ends with plans to begin a new life away from home.
A boy arrives at the Hacket school and meets a warm hearth. The violinist master lifts him from loneliness with playful teaching and a glimpse of Michael Henry the green chair’s unseen presence, shaping a hopeful start with Sally Dunkelberg and family.
A young narrator meets a wise schoolmaster Mr Hacket who assigns moral duties and reads a senator’s letter about Job. The scene recalls Amos Grimshaw’s fate as villagers discuss a crime while the narrator learns the power and danger of books on the bones.
Mitchell Indiana resident Pearl Monyhan credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing neuralgia and boosting health during pregnancy. She reports her seven month old baby weighed 19 pounds and she recovered strength to perform housework, endorsing the remedy for other expectant mothers.
A town exchange features a blunt remark about Bill Simpkins and a calmer defense from a neighbor who praises his weed-growing skill. The piece also cites Garfield Tea claimed to purify blood and treat ailments.
The ad promotes Roman Eye Balsam as a night remedy to prevent and relieve tired and watery eyes and eye strain. The Optimist quote humorously contrasts shoppers and muskrat quotes, reflecting a Cleveland Phin Dealer light note.
An advertisement outlines a home method using Bay Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine to darken gray hair without staining the scalp. It claims low cost, non sticky results, and instruction in each Barbo Compound box. A separate comic dialogue item and a note on Scandinavian women's enfranchisement are mentioned in the same column.
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