Anne Decides Dick West Must Never Marry Phoebe
In 1919 episode, Anne counsels Phoebe as Dick West presses marriage after an engagement leak. Phoebe fears scandal over money owed, while Jim plans to confront West. A phone call reveals Evelyn Mason as a new sister-in-law, setting up further drama.
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King Feature Syndicate, Inc
Jim
Dickest
Phoebe
West
Wesc
Neal
Anne
Jose
Dick West
Lone
Bertha
Evvy
Mr. West
Plapao rupture treatment offered in home free trial
An old advertisement claims 7000 deaths from rupture yearly and promotes a home trial of the PLAPAO pad as a superior, non slipping, strap free solution. It argues trusses injure blood flow and urges readers to request a free trial by sending name to a St. Louis address.
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Flapao Co
St. Louis
Muscular Music Dig at Strauss Provokes Laughs
Denver Philharmonic secretary Handel Booth quips that hostility to Richard Strauss comes as ears adjust to war time taste. A Pittsburgh Telegraph Chronicle cartoon caption jokes the cost of studying Strauss hinges on piano rebuilds.
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Richard Strauss
Handel Booth
Denver Philharmonic Society
Strauss
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
A Cooling Root Beer From Hires Extract Premium
Make wholesome root beer at home using 28¢ Hires Household Extract sugar and a yeast cake. Yields 40 pints or 80 glasses at under 1 per glass, with natural flavors from bark berries herbs and roots. Includes corks or stoppers and bottle suggestions.
Dotted Swiss Tunic Pattern With Lace Trimming
This children’s dress design features dotted Swiss and voile fabrics with Val lace insertion for trimming. It shows a tunic optionally omitted, offered in four sizes 6 8 10 and 12 years. Size 10 needs 35 8 yards of 36 inch material and a pattern can be mailed for 10 cents.
Old maid no more as work empowers modern women
Beatrice Fairfax argues the old idea that women must wait for a rich marriage has faded. She cites Florence Nightingale and Jane Austen as examples and urges women to gain education and employment, increasing chances of love and reducing loneliness while contributing to society.
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Milton
Florence Nightingale
Crimea
Jane Austin
Cain
Telephone for Trapshoot Adds Referee Aid
Popular Mechanics describes a trapshooting relay system with a telephone and megaphone setup. The referee sits near the traps to observe disk damage and declare birds dead or lost, reducing bias and disputed calls.
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Popular Mechanics
Redeeming His Past
A brief Pearson's Weekly quotation recalls a man explaining to Ethel that he must redeem his past before she will marry him. The exchange highlights a humorous or moral moment about past deeds and marriage.
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Ethel
Pearson's Weekly
Advice to the Lovelorn Dear Miss Fairfax
A reader seeks guidance on bashfulness and social exclusion by male friends who invite others but not her. Miss Fairfax suggests joining a dancing class, evaluating manners, and making trusted friends to improve social chances.
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Miss Fairfax
Drive Out Catarrh With S S S Remedy
An old advertisement touts S S S as a vegetable blood remedy to purge catarrh and its germs. It claims fifty years of use, warns that mild weather aids treatment, and offers free medical guidance from a Swift Laboratory specialist in Atlanta Georgia.
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Swift
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
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Ann Lisle
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Gunzenhauser Bakery
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Bell
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Boston Transcript
Telegraph Pattern Department
Daily Dot
Red
J. B
VICK
Cloverdal
Fergie Ree Tein
Cours
Jamaica
Sumdale
Cloverdale Spring Co
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