Cancer Much More Deadly Than War
Public health note from the American Society for the Control of Cancer outlines fourteen points on cancer danger and treatment. It cites 80 000 U S soldiers lost in the great war and 180 000 cancer deaths in the same period, urges early recognition, and clarifies cancer is not a blood disease, not communicable, not inherited, and can be curable when treated early.
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American Society For the Control of Cancer
United States
Cancer warning and treatment guidance from American cancer society
The text lists cancer warning signs such as painless lumps in the breast unusual discharges and mouth sores and urges prompt medical consultation. It notes that radium can help some cancers but is not a cure all and cautions against “cure without the knife” schemes. The American Society for the Control of Cancer promotes awareness from its New York headquarters.
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American Society For the Control of Cancer
West Forty-fifth Street
New York City
Satisfying relief from lumbago remedy ad
A nostalgia era advert promotes a warmth and circulation stimulating external remedy for lumbago sprains and headaches. It touts quick relief without rubbing and offers bottles priced 35c 70c and 1.40 with emphasis on family use and economy.
Editor's Vanishing Act Shocks Indiana Paper
In a bizarre note, the editor fled town reportedly hiding in a box car. The issue blends a Red Cross concert report praised by Sherhorn readers with light bait about local cattle, claiming several heifers are fine-bodied and promising to prove property.
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Indiana
Red Cross
Plow Handled Dream Of Holiday Woods Walk
A narrator recalls a Christmas dream guiding a family walk through woods. They cross a road to clearings for oaks, hear a hickory nut fall, find black haw with purple fruit, and reach a clear stream where children dip fingers in laughing waters before the scene ends.
Christmas Eve Homecoming Through a Railcar Ride
The narrator recalls a Christmas Eve journey by rail through a busy city. A merry party races past a track as church bells chime and the Babe of Bethlehem story is shared. By nine o clock they return home to tea and bedtime, then wake to stockings filled by Santa Claus.
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Land of Dreams
Santa Claus
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