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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
7
Discussion of pure food laws and industry adaptation with Quaker Oats as a model. Claims the product is pure, clean, affordable, and nourishing. Notes Yale tests and adoption by many for vigor and endurance, and mentions packaging options including large family size and varieties with or without China.
A 22 year married woman and grandmother of four is portrayed with humor through a story recounted by a colored cook. When a box of flowers arrives the cook jokes about shared affection and the mistress’s happiness, reflecting a playful domestic scene in Ladies' Home Journal style.
A garbled clipping promotes sensational lines about eternal life, twins, and a lead about a “Double Tragedy.” It references druggists Han Bros and Ausfalo, with taunting warnings and spoofed medical and advertising claims through mock dialogue and odd product names.
Richard Kinney, a farm laborer, resolves to attend college after his mother agrees to a plan to fund schooling. He works in the woods with Tom Bishop, repeating Greek lessons as his longing for Emily wanes. The village learns of his study, and Richard grapples with love, duty, and a future beyond farming.
A young lawyer visiting his broker discovers a familiar face in the broker's private room while shadows reveal his wife with the broker. The revelation prompts a shocked interruption and a lighthearted reply about eye troubles. An accompanying essay mocks a Sweet Girl Graduate and Quaker schooling trend.
A home remedy claims to break up a cold and cure coughs by mixing two ounces glycerin a half ounce virgin oil of fine compound pure and eight ounces pure whisky. Sold by drug stores with Leach Chemical Co of Cincinnati endorsing the pine compound.
A Yukon Oklahoma mother recalls her two year old son suffering a severe rash with itching and blistering. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with curing the condition after about three months. The same issue references a tuberculosis poster campaign funded by potter drug and other groups and a political exchange about candor and intellect.
A veteran Boston educator writes that after nervous exhaustion she resigned a forty year career and turned to Grape-Nuts. She claims constipation and related illness vanished, brain power and physical health improved, crediting the cereal and a raw egg breakfast, and encourages readers to seek the little book The Road to Wellville.
An old health ad promotes a tonic mix of sarsaparilla syrup, toris compound, and whisky to combat age related rheumatic pains, claiming strong results after several doses. A witty dialog follows about an elderly man considering going home at 11 o clock with no plans.
This advertisement promotes Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children made by a nurse in New York. It claims relief from constipation nervousness teething troubles and worm problems with thousands of testimonials and endorsements from doctors and families. It ends with a note about a giggling girl becoming a laughing child.
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