Dearest Baby Promoted by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Plattsburg Miss Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound praised by Mrs Verna Wilkes for curing nervous prostration indigestion and female troubles enabling a healthy baby and happier home. The ad urges women with childless concerns to seek confidential guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
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Plattsburg, Miss
Lydia E. Pinkham
Verna Wilkes
R. F. DB
Plattsburg
Miss
Resinol Promises Quick Skin Relief and Wide Use
Advertises Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap for eczema ringworm and itching. Claims rapid relief and healing of pimples boils burns and other skin complaints. Mentions physician prescription eighteen years and prices 25c 50c and 1 parcel post from Resinol Chem Co Baltimore.
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Resinol Chem. Co
Baltimore
Growth Of Tuberculosis Campaign And Its Achievements
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reports eight years of progress. It helped organize 800+ state and local societies, established 500+ hospitals and sanatoria with 30,000 beds, opened 400 dispensaries and 150 open air schools, and saw tuberculosis laws pass in 45 states with 200+ city ordinances. It conducted education in 40 states, distributing over 100,000,600 pamphlets.
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National Association For the
National Association
Arctic Skepticism in a Frigid Flat
A humorous dialogue contrasts a resident’s claim of extreme cold with a janitor’s cool response. The exchange highlights wit over weather, implying a chilly situation in the home. The tones mirror a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper snippet.
Family kitchen humor as Sunday dinner tease
The eldest daughter, taking cooking lessons, practices on the family with a Sunday dinner. The mother is praised for a dish, and the sister pleads for a plain dinner, while the eldest urges more elaborate fare.
Stringent Austrian Building Rules Highlight Solid Materials
Austria enforces strict building laws requiring dwellings and businesses to use solid materials from interior to exterior. Regulations are rigorously applied with interiors featuring plaster and concrete, and bricks and laths are common in construction.
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Austria
Economy in Kitchen and the Illusion of Saving
The piece argues that trimming leftovers rarely saves money or time. It warns against wasteful labor and fuel use for unpalatable dishes and favors buying smarter, portioning bread, and using ingredients efficiently. It stresses tailoring purchases to family needs and avoiding needless frugality.
How to Clean a Wool Shawl Properly
The Commoner advises making a good lather of soap and warm water and squeezing the shawl with both hands to clean it. Rinse in several waters, then remove excess water by wringing with a wringer, not hands, and dry on a clean cloth.
Good Plain Crust for Meat and Apple Pies
Instructions for a plain crust using one cupful clarified dripping or shredded suet per quart of flour, with about half a pint of water. Rub shortening into flour, mix with water gradually, avoid overworking, roll on a floured board, spread top with dripping, fold, and reshape as desired.
Pears in Vinegar and Spice Syrup Pickle
Boil vinegar and sugar then add cloves ginger and spices in a muslin bag. Boil eight minutes then add cured pears halved and cook until tender. Pack hot in glass jars. The recipe yields enough syrup pickle for six pounds of pears.
Maple Sugar Cookies
Cream together one scant cupful of butter with three cupfuls of crushed maple sugar and acid in the order mentioned two well beaten eggs three quarters of a cup of sour milk in which has been dissolved a scan tea spoonful of baking soda and sufficient sifted flour to form a batter that will drop from the spoon Allow plenty of space on the baking tins as the cakes will spread when cooking and bake in a rather quick oven until they are crisp and brown around the edges.
FLOWERS IN THE HOUSEHOLD
Four steps to keep cut flowers fresh for a week or more. Submerge stems in water for hours, cleanse the vase, keep flowers in a cool place, and trim stems by a quarter inch each morning to prevent air bubbles from blocking water uptake. Delfineator provides the tips.
The Card Club Joke Exchange
A light exchange about a card club luncheon shows a sharp wife winning praise for her lunch. The husband notes no lunch beats hers yet, while teasing about club antics and social dining.
Miracle Cure Ends Childs Rash With Cuticura
Mrs. Annie Saunders of Monroe Wisconsin says her six week old baby suffered a severe facial rash that spread across the body causing itching and disfigurement. After trying remedies a friend suggested Cuticura. a sample led to improvement and full treatment with Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the infant, now with a healthy scalp and clear complexion. Postcard address offered for samples and Skin Book.
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Monroe, Wis
Annie Saunders
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Needle in Soup Misprint Tale From The Press
A printer turned waiter is famed for exposing misprints in text. In a restaurant an angry guest finds a needle in his soup, but the waiter quips the error was a simple misprint, intended as neodle. The anecdote traces the typesetter's sharp eye for errors.
Big Shoe Makers Fight Small Towns In Fair Terms
A call to support small manufacturers against major shoe firms that press for unequal terms. The message claims equal treatment for all factories regardless of size and promises details upon contact with United Shoe Machinery Co. of Boston.
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The
United Shoe Machinery Co
Boston
Mass
Adv
Its Place Inysis of a Quiet Chair on Carpet Map
A quip contrasts placing a chair on a carpet map with a sly note that a man may still get rich despite his wife. The vignette hints at domestic dynamics and odd humor without naming people or places. The text presents a playful aside about wealth and partnership.
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