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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1916
Page
7
A fragmented ad style note discusses an excellent market for rows in Russia and promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as the original liver remedy from 40 years earlier. It also mentions Monroe after exposure to cold winds and dust, and Murine Eye Remedy Co offering an eye book on request.
A brief dialogue features a sharp exchange about money and thrift. One speaker chides the other for reckless spending and being short of funds, while the other retorts with a reminder of prior aid and current poverty.
A miner lowered into a subterranean cavern opened by a blast near Volcano Nevada. He could not locate the bottom as sounds from walls echoed but no bottom contact could be heard.
A San Francisco Chronicle note warns that a Midway printer hangout on Third Street uses a “make up rule” metal strip as a supposed badge. The host loans money to printers, keeping the strips in a cigar box, believing the tool authenticates work and enables printing.
A twenty nine year old ticket between Kansas City and Gallatin Missouri resurfaced after being kept in a Leavenworth prison safe during the owner’s twenty nine year term following a train arrest just before the conductor’s rounds.
A half pint of water with 1 oz Hay Rum, a stall sex of Harbo Compound, and W oz of ulycering. Apply to hair twice weekly until the desired shade. Can be made at home at very low cost. Gradually darkens gray streaks, removes dandruff, helps falling hair, and softens harsh hair. Does not color the scalp and does not rub off.
Scientists at the Paris medical college report that tobacco smoke injures the heart independent of nicotine content. Experiments indicate smoke from other combusted materials is similarly harmful, with deleterious effects linked to multiple combustion products rather than nicotine alone.
An army officer at a Washington party listens to a young woman who just returned from England claim that many young soldiers have their pick of girls. She mentions a lieutenant in the Blues allegedly engaged to seven girls at once, prompting a quip that Cupid is firing a machine gun these days.
The Italian government places the Naples zoological station under a royal commission led by F. Say Monticelli president. The commission will provide means to continue the station's work and honor engagements for research tables.
A Cuban plant species has been identified bearing fig resembling fruit that harbors insects whose eggs are hatched by sunlight. Researchers note the discovery highlights unique plant insect interactions and potential ecological implications in Cuban flora.
A concise study of Stephen the Grecian Jew as he faces the Sanhedrin. The charges of blasphemy and misreading the law are answered by reverence for Moses and rejection of a worship-centered temple. Stephen’s vision of heaven sustains him as Saul of Tarsus watches, and persecution disperses believers to fulfill the Pentecost mission.
The rise of the separate skirt signals strong consumer loyalty among American women. Lightweight fabrics like woolens and cottons with bold stripes and checks showcase diagonal seams, gores, and full hems, paired with short belted coats and silk blouses.
A plain corded madras dress designed for summer shows belt lifting square neck opening and hemstitching. Patterns use striped and plain fabrics with pockets in various positions, appealing to mothers making kids’ clothes. Families weigh home sewing versus buying ready-made for time and cost savings.
Advice on making a black luncheon set from odd fabric scraps with a simple hem and five radiating buttonhole stitches for a neat centerpiece. Mentions using damask or Inen and mercerized cotton for contrast, and notes a bold or dainty china backdrop. The orange tree line presents a separate fact about fruit and blossoms.
A promotional piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a key remedy for the Change of Life, citing reader letters from women in Philadelphia Beverly and Erie praising relief from headaches backaches heat flashes and nervous symptoms. It claims free advice from the company and notes the letters are handled by women in confidence. It also includes short anecdotes and jokes unrelated to the product.
A marketing appeal touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a temperance remedy extracted from roots and herbs. It targets women suffering menstrual irregularities and related symptoms, urging immediate purchase in pill or tablet form to restore health and ease pain.
A Russian joke style exchange has a father warning Bobbie that the punishment will hurt him more than it does the boy. Bobbie retorts with defiance, implying the consequence will not deter misbehavior. The brief vignette portrays a stubborn child and a stern parent.
Italy covers 110000 square miles while California spans 158000 square miles. The text frames marriage as both illusion and disillusion, reflecting ambiguous social commentary.
An advertisement touts Resinol Soap for improving complexion within a week and suggests Resinol Ointment for severe cases. It claims the soap softens rough hands and arms and keeps hair healthy and dandruff free, noting no free alkali and urging purchase from druggists.
Doctor Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo offers Anuric as a rapid eliminator of uric acid for back ache scalding urine and urinary sediment. Claims relief from rheumatism gout and gravel with quick pain and stiffness reduction. Large trial package costs 100 and full treatment 50c from druggists.
A mid ocean emergency aboard the liner Ryndam saw rapid help from ship staff. The captain halted the voyage and the surgeon led efforts while the American dentist cooperative administered anesthetic to remove a passenger's appendix.
A witty exchange contrasts a cook’s adequacy with the actual cooking. The quip labels the cook as sufficient but condemns the cuisine as atrocious, highlighting a gap between skill and execution.
Leavenworth Kansas man Ed Arland reports trial use of Vick's Vap-O-Rub salve for cold relief. The product, just arriving from the South, claims to substitute for multiple measures like poultices and plasters by delivering vapors through the throat and skin to loosen phlegm and clear air passages. Available in 25¢ 50¢ and $1.00 sizes with a free trial package upon request from The Vick Chemical Company Greensboro NC.
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