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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
3
An old newspaper ad promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a gentle healing vegetable compound for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It claims quick relief and urges start of treatment now. It offers bottles in two sizes at drug stores and a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY with paper name noted.
A court stenographer recalls Solomon’s mood after a day of four moving picture shows six musical comedies and a stack of Sunday comics. The king claims nothing new under the sun as he dictates his words. A court chamberlain notes the unusual behavioral jaunt.
A promotional piece lauds American women’s war service and recommends Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments. It extols tonic benefits, cites testimonials, and urges readers to request a trial package from a Buffalo New York address.
A 1918 McClure Syndicate piece analyzes the cost of dressing well on a $125 annual wardrobe budget. It details typical prices for suits coats waists dresses skirts hats shoes gloves stockings corsets underwear and miscellaneous items, breaking down outside clothing and other articles to show total annual expenditure around $125. The article cites Washington Bureau of Labor Statistics figures and discusses how fashion habits adapt to limited funds for working women.
The article notes that nail biting and lip chewing affect all ages from children to older women. It explains these habits disfigure the mouth by enlarging and misaligning the lips and altering facial expressions. Some start the habit while absorbed in reading or work, often without realizing the attention they attract.
The passage describes how walls admit thousands of germs directly into the mouth leading to the stomach and intestines and onward into the blood.
A velvet framedess hat appears in the Bulletin of Totail Millinery Association of America. The hat is entirely made of velvet or panne velvet, shirred and tucked, and stays put in any arrangement. It can be worn turned up to create a Napoleonic effect with wide sides and may be trimmed with a pearl rhinestone pin or a jet buckle.
A fashion note highlights the shift toward color in new suits with Gry and brown fur now fading as attractive shades gain popularity. Women tired of navy and black seek alternatives with Henna and Algerian red cited as popular colors this season.
In Abilene Kansas Mrs L J Rossiter reports severe back pain, inability to stoop or lift, restless nights, tiredness, aching kidneys, nervousness, dizziness and headaches. She says three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills relieved all signs of kidney complaint.
Frances was told to take her little brother to the barber. Her father gave her a quarter and wondered whether the haircut would cost ten or fifteen cents. Frances skipped off smiling and asked the barber how she should have Little Jack's hair cut.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. internal treatment required. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine claims to purify blood and tonify the system, with a blend of tonics and purifiers. Endorsed by B J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. testimonials offered.
A compact cut from Town Topics notes Mrs. E. is too stout to skip a dull story. A patent desk for outdoors writers is strapped to a knee with an elastic band. An ad promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a remedy to regulate the bowels and stomach. Sympathy is praised as something men avoid wasting.
In a trimmed scene from Shakespearean drama, Goneril forces Lear to leave his dwelling as she remarks that kings are going out of style, delivering a sharp, modern tone to a classic royal confrontation.
In a brief, tongue in cheek exchange, Belle suggests amusing the lieutenant with a photograph, while Bess contemplates what to send. The quirky dialogue hints at camp life and morale efforts amid wartime furloughs.
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