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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims the tonic cleanses the liver, relieves biliousness, headaches, and sour stomach, and is safe for children while avoiding calomel’s side effects. It emphasizes quick, pleasant relief with a few cents for a bottle.
A World War I slice covers a doughboy’s quick digging under fire in the Meuse Argonne. He quips about contractors as a lieutenant orders a trench. The item threads in jokes about invitations, scouts, and a Scandinavian coin talk, ending with a dining room quip about ex servicemen and doughboys.
A historical Sunday school lesson summarizes Peter and John’s arrest, trial, and bold proclamation in Acts 4 1 22. It notes the officials who opposed them, the miracle, and the Sanhedrin’s reaction, ending with the church’s prayer for courage and strength.
A reflective sermon-like passage urges forgiveness as essential, stating that mercy is inaccessible without it. It presents salvation as a shared endeavor between God and humanity, calling individuals to cooperate with divine work. The text references the Savior’s birth and positions Jesus as a fellow-worker with God in human salvation.
A jumble of quoted lines praises sleep as vital energy storage from Practical Therapeutics and mentions brands like ASTORIA. The piece injects assorted witticisms about marks, mothers, and a schoolmaster’s dialogue, ending with a quip about a sour face and a levit's factory.
A remark notes a woman’s fondness for a fur cloak with confirmation that she is indeed wrapped in it. The exchange underscores the garment as a defining accessory in her portrayal within the text.
A formula blends Bay Kum Barbo Compound and glycerine in water to darken gray hair. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade, with a solution that won’t cool the scalp, feel sticky, or rub off. Available from druggists or mixed at home at low cost.
Herbert Johnson, a humorist illustrator, told a New York dinner that laundry workers are the most sensitive group. He recalled a trade paper’s two column attack after a cartoon about laundries wrecking a shirt and a nail sketch about ruined ties.
To restore faded ink the document is washed with substances that darken on contact with iron infusion of nut galls sodium sulphate or acetic ferrocyanide of potassium. The method preserves the original writing while reviving legibility using chemical darkening agents.
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