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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
4
A collection of pithy quips and jests on prohibition prices and headlines. The column riffs on matrimony mirrors corruption taxes and the Mexican crisis with tongue in cheek humor and sharp asides about public life in the era. It mentions a Missouri hen insured for five thousand dollars and a prodigal son who returned home.
A Forest City resident jokes about being shaved by a female barber and recalls a wild man in town. A wag notes using a razor to sharpen a lead pencil and another man laments exercise increasing appetite and rising grocery costs.
Pale children suffer thinness and paleness as signs of poor blood. Gude's Pepto Mangan promises to enrich blood and restore vigor, with tablets and liquid forms sharing the same properties. Use the product labeled Gude's to ensure genuine Pepto Mangan.
There is a claim that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrhal deafness by acting on the mucous surfaces. A reward of one hundred dollars is offered for any case of catarrhal deafness that cannot be cured. Circulare free from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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