Do All My Housework Chicago Ad Letter
A Chicago letter extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for displacement and irregularities. It claims the remedies cured the author and enabled her to perform housework with three healthy children. The ad invites women to write for free confidential advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn, Mass.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Kwanremnsxl
W. Oakdaks Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Can’t Cut Off My Leg Says Railroad Engineer
A railroad engineer recalls an old leg injury from the West and credits Peterson’s Ointment with healing the wound after other remedies failed. He reports full recovery and endorses the product for piles eczema and old sores, with mail-order details in Buffalo, NY.
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Peterson
Gus Haut
Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn
N. Y
Peterson Ointrdst Co. Inc
Buffalo
Bayer Aspirin ad promotes genuine tablets and safety claims
An old Bayer aspirin advertisement touts genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with directions for headache and other pains, noting affordable small packs and larger drugstore packages. It claims aspirin is a Bayer trademark and cites monacetic ester of salicylic acid. It references the director urging daily happiness registration and The Star's question about reporting continual happiness on a small salary.
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Bayer
Education versus elocution in a playful quip exchange
A Kansas City Star humorous fragment features a horse faced gentleman claiming education is a safeguard better than a standing army and another voice correcting to elocution. An广告 for Cuticura products promotes the soap, ointment, and talcum with a 25 cent price.
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J. Fuller
Kansas City Star
Silly Boy and the West Inch Friends
A childhood fear of Napoleonic invasion drives friendship between Jack Calder, Scot farmer of West Inch, and Jim Horscroft, son of a doctor. They become schoolmates at Berwick, then students in Edinburgh, with Edie of Eyemouth entering their lives as a crush deepens. A cliff scene marks the British victory over French privateers as a pivotal moment.
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Jack Calder
West Indi
Europe
Jim Horscroft
Berwick
Jim
Edinburgh
Jack
Edie
Eyemouth
West Inch
Hive
Soldier’s vow amid sea battle and country vow
In a rough sea tale, a merchant lugger fights off a raid as ships burn and sink. A narrator recalls a past romance with Cousin Edie, vows to join the army, and seeks permission from his mother and father, finally confessing love with a kiss before she diverts him toward marriage.
The Choosing of Jim in a Winter Morning
In a misty rural tale Jack Calder watches Edie Calder flirtatiously charm Jim Horscroft, a doctor-in-training, who returns from a drunken clash with the gypsy champion. Edie tests affection, Jim hopes for love, and Jack fears the rainbow that may be beyond reach as winter mornings reveal shifting loyalties and a looming crisis.
What Do They Mean By A Curtain Lecture
A fragmentary exchange contrasts home and house, defining a home as a place of love rest and peace earned through reciprocity. A Western Methodist Curtain lecture is referenced, with a quip about its relation to parlor smoking and social lectures.
Purified blood health tonic advertised with revival claims
An advertisement promotes Perfect Health II as a blood purifier and immune booster. It touts S. S. S. as a vegetable medicine to revitalize blood, improve vitality, and ward off disease, urging readers to buy at stores and request free medical advice from Swift Specific Co.
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Ad And Clarion Flapper Joke
Important to all Women Readers of this Paper Thousands of women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women s complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy con dition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, head ache and loss of ambition. Poor health makes you nervous, irritable and may be despondent, it makes any one so. But hundreds of women claim that Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Many send for a sample bottle to see what Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine, will do for them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y., you may receive sample size bottle by Parcel Post. You can purchase medium and large size bottles at all drug stores. The Flapper. Mother Why dont you dress scen sibly Marie Daughter Oh ma it would seem so foolish.
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Jim
Edie Calder
Edie
Jack
Muir
Jim Horscroft
Jock
Mr. Horscroft
West Inch
Jacok
Kitmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. C
Hot Weather Warning for Stomachs Promotes Eatonic Tablet
Chicago advertising urges eatonic users to take one tablet before meals and after eating during hot weather to curb excess acids and gases. It claims quick action for appetite, reduced feverish sensation, and relief from stomach and bodily discomfort from overeating and drinking cold drinks.
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Chicago
Eatonic
Adv
GAVE HIM UP IN DISGUST AT WAR'S RACIAL GAPS
A vivid Legion Weekly piece recounts a Brest harbor incident where an American stevedore fails to communicate with a Algerian and a colored French soldier. The spark of ingenuity with ivory cubes yields no understanding, prompting Sam to declare the Algerian "a corpse" and highlight wartime racial tensions.
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Brest
Georgia
Sam
Pusseon
The
American Legion Weekly
Step by Step six hour day plan with time revision
A man proposes a six hour workday to ensure happiness and contentment. He envisions not asking for less than six hours now, but foresees a future need to revise the calendar so hours shorten to 23 or 30 minutes per hour, altering the chronological system.
Multiplies Too Fast at Army School
An army school instructor tests aspirants in arithmetic amid jokes about fractions. A raw youth misreads tenths and hundredths, exclaiming there must be millions of them, highlighting the challenge of learning math.
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D. N
American Legion Weekly
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