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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1912
Page
10
An offer announces a free full size cake of Sweetheart Toilet Soap to readers. The ad claims Sweetheart Soap uses benzoin and cold cream, has a Bouquet scent, rich lather, and is the world’s largest selling toilet soap with over a million women trying it.
Elkader routed McGregor 27 to 12 in Friday night basketball. The town reports social visits, travels, and lodge elections with local residents and guests attending events and visiting family across Iowa and nearby states.
An article promotes spirits for rheumatism using Toris compound with syrup of sarsaparilla in whiskey, claiming immediate results and urging genuine sealed yellow packs from druggists. It also advertises Calocide foot bath relief for sore feet and related conditions.
The report records visits to the C. A. Jordan and W. J. Knowley homes and notes that Mr. Frank Managan has returned from a business trip to Chicago.
The New York university information test revealed odd definitions. Hypothecate as a druggist and esophagus as a tomb for dead kings show semantic slips. Beowulf as a Shakespearean Ivanhoe figure and Aesop as a writer who traded copyrights for potash potions mock the era’s education.
An old advertisement promotes Olivilo soap as a versatile toilet soap for bath, nursery and hair care with a 10c price. It touts a “San Toy Miniature Package” for 10c including talcum, perfume and toilet water and invites mail order for 14c.
The heel of Achilles is famous from a myth in which Thetis dips him in the river Styx to grant invulnerability while Paris delivers a fatal wound to the un-dipped heel. The term tendon Achilles derives from this legend as a mighty but vulnerable heel.
A playful riddle states Mary plans to depart on the day after tomorrow. She says she will start a week from yesterday and return not until the day before five weeks after a fortnight and three days before the day after a couple of days before I start.
A special musical service will be held at Christchurch next Sunday afternoon at 4 30. Mrs. Robert E Whelpley will be the soloist and the choir will sing the first part of the program.
Mammoth high school hosts a county fair organized by the Boys' Athletic association. Attractions fill every room, including a circus in the gym, vaudeville with Elks minstrels and Thomas orchestra, famous beauties, freaks, and boxing and wrestling exhibitions.
A testimonial touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for People as a cure for anemia and nervous prostration. Agnes Grace Street Mt Washington Pa says months bedridden improved after taking pills. She credits weight gain color and strength to the remedy and urges others to request the free booklet Plain Talks to Women.
The article discusses the old Irish phrase his mother's white headed boy found in fairy stories from the last century. It notes Irish mothers guarded the term, describes Gerald Griffin using it in a short story, and claims the expression originated from Celtic lore.
A modern historian claims Gongru Hrolf, later Normandy's Duke and William the Conqueror's ancestor, was the first woman suffragist, with the Viking issuing the first appeal for women's rights ten centuries ago. The excerpt includes a joke about Green and a note on jade in China.
The text promotes a Tribune dictionary in a treasury of literature and facts with colored illustrations of poultry dogs and canines. Six coupons from Tribune issues secure a bargain bonus. The copy touts convenience and a record-breaking dictionary buyers trend through mail order.
Kitty and Jack exchange light banter about appearance in a breezy Boston Transcript item.
A vintage advertisement touts Pinex with sugar syrup as a cough cure. It claims quick relief from whooping cough sore lungs hoarseness and throat irritation. The text promotes mixing instructions a laxative note and promises money back if not satisfied.
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