Quirky 1900s notes mix fashion, explorers, and politics
The column jests about Carmen Sylia Roumanian queen opposing corsets, King Edward and a double in private life, polar explorers, suffrage, and oddities from North America to Europe. It mentions jet-age desires, a New Orleans whisker case, and humorous asides on diet fads and public figures.
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Carmen Sylia
Not Enough Spuds Sparks Iowa Potato Talk at Institute
At a farmers institute in Waterloo Professor Holden of Ames urged Iowa to boost potato production citing higher profits per acre for corn and the need for better seed. He recommended planting good sized tubers, choosing rich soil, and using treatments for scab and blight, noting Maine and Minnesota supply potatoes nationwide.
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Ames College
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Ohio
New Yorker
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Ater
Osceola Tribune
Vinavi Hygiene Information From LeMars Ad
Readable text notes hygiene of four hundred pages and free information. Adress F. OG. Hox 1136 LeMars Iowa.
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Vinavi
F. OG
LeMars
An African Night in the Bush
Excerpt from Cornhill Magazine describing a night in African terrain. Voices of distant cries and camp noises mingle with wildlife sounds. zebras move across the plain as beasts approach the camp. The narrator recalls sleeping difficulties and the uneasy balance between human tents and the surrounding wilds.
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Cornhill Magazine
Night Worker Cures Severe Cold with King’s New Discovery
A Tennessee night worker enduring damp drafts and exposure in Winers Springs contracted severe cold that damaged his lungs. After failed remedies he found relief with Dr King’s New Discovery, noting one bottle cured him. The medicine, 50 cents to a dollar with a free trial bottle, is guaranteed by G F Green, druggist.
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Wittermui
Winer Springs
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Green
Hissing in Ears Dismissed by Doctor Joke
A patient asks about a persistent ear hissing and asks for advice. The doctor questions the patient’s occupation and humorously suggests changing careers when learning the patient is an actor.
Eneelken Funeral Director Notice
J. S. Eneelken, licensed undertaker, conducts embalming and funeral services. Noth phonns. tf.
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Embalnar
Undertaker
Noth Phonns
Corkscrew Seed and the Spina Penud Controversy
A fragmented description discusses a corkscrew shaped seed growth from a South European grass called la sinalk. The seed forms a twisting stalk with short hairs, curling into a corkscrew. The seed drops to the ground, then the plant continues to grow. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Jasilica
Wiel
Sven
Dauay
Aeton
Fragmentary quotes and old-time slang misreads in newspaper snippets
A garbled clip file shows mixed quotations and misspelled lines from Chicago, Trouston, and other papers. The fragment mentions matches of the waves, a single wounded girl, a mime slop, and a history note about line garrying rackets invented in 1850 by an Englishman Treverouse for the Massachusetts tuning society.
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Treverouse Gad
WIA
Massachusetts Tanine Society
Arlington drug ad boasts arnica salve for skin care
Looking One's best, it's a woman's delight to look her best Init pimples, skin eruptions, sores it bails rob life of joy. Ligten Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures makes the skin soft and velvety, it glorifies the face. Cures pimples, sore eyes, rold sores, cracked Ups, trapped hands. Try it. Infallible for miles. 25e at S. E. Green, drugiest.
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S. E. Green
Drugelat
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