Sunday Press Critique Angers Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century and After rakes the American Sunday newspaper for its vastness, sensational content, ads, and cartoons. It questions the esteem of the color comic section, wonders who the pictures target, and likens the mass to mass distraction, while noting the piece concludes with a Life digest quote on avoiding useless knowledge.
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Archie Roosevelt
Sammy
Fritz
Marcus Aurelius
Rome
Forest Cover and Reservoirs Proposed to Curb Flood Loss
The United States Geological Survey estimates floods cost the nation 600 million dollars yearly in property loss and wasted water. Forestation and forest cover are cited as key to making soils porous to slow runoff, while building storage reservoirs on headwater streams is urged to capture floodwaters for use in low water periods.
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United State Geological Survey
United States
Water Resources Branch
The
Geological Survey
Ohio River
The Orient Watching the Filipinos
The piece praises the American model in the Philippines as offering free education and political access to all natives. It contrasts with British and French rule and notes Manila as a cosmopolitan hub drawing Orientals seeking inspiration for reforms. The essay predicts wide influence if the American system endures.
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Far East
Philippines
India
Manila
Java
China
Pigeon Laughs At Foot Tickling Tele Kiss Joke
A lighthearted Chicago News item features a pigeon ask what makes it laugh while a sparrow on a wire jokes about a man sending his best girl a dozen kisses over the telephone.
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Chicago News
Rollo and Tessie in Mock Bellwether Class
Classified note quotes Rollo claiming to be among the Four Hundred while Tessie disputes the boast calling her one of the fifty seven. The Princeton Tiger cites Germany’s 21 universities with 27 000 students and 2000 professors under care.
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Rollo
Tessie
Princeton Tiger
Germany
London Doctoren offers cheap toys and asthma relief
An OCR fragment lists Brown's Bronchial Traches promising quick relief for asthma or bronchitis without harmful drugs. It mentions Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, Garfield Tea laxative, and notes libraries read more in November. It cites Topeka lawyers per population from the Leavenworth Times.
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Brown
Leavenworth Times
Topeka
Kansas City Journal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward
An old advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Cure marketed in Toledo Ohio. The copy touts blood and mucous membrane benefits and urges purchase at 75 cents with mentions of Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Toledo
Cheney
Butine
Layne Tal Manvin
Gatserh Uhrei
Price
Iron Eaters Tacks Misadventure Tape
A carpet layer recalls swallowing tacks as a normal hazard of work. He jokes that professionals swallow half a dozen daily and that a hundredweight has passed his lips over years. The anecdote rhymes with caution and humor about a common trade hazard from the Los Angeles Times.
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Los Angeles Times
Skin Trouble Healed By Cuticura Remedies
J. Hennen of Milan Missouri reports a long skin trouble first appearing twelve to fifteen years ago with itching and stinging. After three doctors failed he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and improved immediately never bothered by itching again. Two years ago grippe and pneumonia caused a leg swelling and bleeding breakout cured by Cuticura three times. May 13 1907.
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J. ¥. Hennen
Milan
Rents in Mexico City Stun American Visitor
George T. Lessing of St. Louis notes shocking rental prices in Mexico City. He found two story houses from 150 to 200 dollars per month and upscale homes up to 2400 dollars monthly, higher even after adjusting for Mexican currency. He says basic living costs are reasonable in other aspects compared with U.S. cities.
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Mexico
George T. Lessing
St. Louis
United States
Baltimore
Horses by the Hundred in Modern Warfare
The article notes the crucial role of horses in war and cites large horse needs for major powers. It compares Britain France and Germany, estimating annual costs for army horses and wartime demands during conflicts like the Boer War.
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Germany
France
Britain
A Woman Dreads Surgical Operation Trends
A newspaper excerpt discusses a woman’s fear of surgery and claims many operations on women are unnecessary, noting that numerous procedures could be avoided in hospitals. It argues for restraint and reconsideration of routine surgeries.
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
Letters from readers claim Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured severe female troubles and saved lives after doctors proposed operations. The ad touts thirty years of use, listing conditions like displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, and backache, inviting letters to Lynn Massachusetts.
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Barbara Base
Kingman
Kansas
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Arthur R. House
Church Road
Moorestown
N. J
Young women gaze at glowing sign on Germantown street
A group of young women on Main street near Schoolhouse lane in Germantown stare at a brightly lit overhanging sign from the old King of Prussia Inn building. The sign reads Hug the barber and is mounted on a century old landmark now housing a barber.
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Schoolhouse Lane
Germantown
King of Prussia Inn
Hug
Philadelphia Record
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