22 May 1931
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1931
Page
1
Advertisement proclaims Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin eases feverish or upset children and colds by cleansing bowels. Claims 3500 births attended without loss, notes laxative benefits and appetite boost, urging households to keep the product at hand.
A new British clinical approach uses an oxygen souffle mixed with Temon or peach juice to deliver oxygen to the stomach. Demonstrated at a London medical exhibition, the method drew curious visitors and reported surprisingly satisfactory results.
A proverb saying The gray mare is the better horse is traced to Hery wood in 736. The remark reflects ancient wisdom about older, steadier strengths over novelty and speed.
Mrs Hulda Smith of 136 Black Ave endorses Dr Pierce s Prescription as an excellent tonic and nervine. She reports it keeps her in good health during expectancy, helps recover strength afterward, and she considers it the only tonic a weak and ailing woman should take. Readers are invited to send 10c to Dr Pierce s Buffalo NY for a trial package.
An advertisement for Von Frieling’s Salve claiming a 400 year history and German manufacture by Dr Albert Von Frieling dating to 4512. It markets a remedy for blood poisoning from arrows and various wounds and bites. Sold prepaid for fifty cents with a U S address in New York City and a forel address in Solio Germany.
Stomach troubles and headaches blamed on indigestion prompt a Tanlac testimonial from Daniel Vinciguerra of 6200 Stiles St Philadelphia. The ad claims Tanlac relieves stomach pain improves appetite sleep and nerves and promises a money back guarantee if it fails. It emphasizes roots herbs and low cost under two cents per dose.
The Great Brass Brain, a six by seven by two foot thinking machine, housed in the U S coast and geodetic survey in Washington, can compute tides for 4 300 world regions with year ahead accuracy in a single working day. It debunks Paul Revere tide myths, showing tides did not hinder his ride but aided the British march to Concord. Also covered are Alaska Native Brotherhood resolutions condemning medicine men and fortune tellers as fakes.
Cherie Nicholas notes a renewed interest in petticoats and velvet wraps for spring and summer outfits. She highlights transparent hemlines, lace petticoats, printed silks, and blue or green velvet wraps that add a chic trim to daytime and evening dresses, with petticoats reemerging as essential fashion elements.
Popular Mechanics notes crickets surpass master violinists in speed, able to play notes in a fiftieth of a second. Dr Frank Lutz and W B Hicks of the American Museum of Natural History helped produce a cricket chirple and uncovered facts about this famed natural musician.
An account notes Elisha Barrell of Hartford New York walked 300 miles home in 16 days in 1626 at a cost of $2.42 not counting liquor. One overnight stop cost 18 cents. The rest of the page shows ads for plants exports, an oiling device for Model A Ford, goiter remedies, farmland for sale in Rosebud Territory and periodical pain tablets from N M Laboratories.
From conception to weaning, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia helps relieve nausea and heartburn, aids digestion, and provides gentle laxative action for regularity. It neutralizes cow's milk in infant feeding and is endorsed by physicians for fifty years. Available in 25¢ and 50¢ bottles at all drugstores.
A fragmented clipping mixes dating dialogue with an odd health ad and car trouble notes. It mentions a theater outing costing $25, an ironic theatre line about love, a Dr Pierce Pleasant Pellets liver bowels and stomach claim, and a failing engine cough.
Joseph A. Juert man reports stealing of a two and a half story frame house with brick foundation in Newark New Jersey. He says he bought the house in January and built a fence around it. When he inspected two months later only a vacant lot remained and police suspect the house was used as kindling by poor families during winter.
The 1920 town report for Healthy Town New Hampton N A records nine deaths with ages ranging from seventy-one to eighty-five years and an average age of seventy seven years.
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