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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1909
Page
7
A guide for a versatile party theme with animal guessing game on backs, decorative cages and prizes, plus a Japanese Tan Tan recipe, an engagement announcement display with bridal motif, a lavish luncheon menu, and a clever age wordplay contest ending with a MADAME MERRI signature.
Green belts are stylish and gray tones appear fashionable. Lace is universally used and old red remains a prime favorite with black. Yellow sees rising use while fall tones stay soft and dull. Small buttons dominate and pockets in motoring coats are large. Close fitting styles will continue through winter.
A Oklahoma nurse credits Donn's Kidney Pills with quick relief from run-down health backache and kidney symptoms. Minnie Turner of Ebb St Ana darko reports rapid improvement after using five boxes. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A New York Tribune item notes a city employment agency manager faced 14 applicants seeking maid jobs. A matron explained she wants economizing maids from clergy households, claiming such experience teaches thrift. The exchange highlights hiring pressures and moral reputations in domestic work. A secondary anecdote recalls Prof Jowett of Oxford challenging a student on belief, offering a drastic ultimatum about God by five.
An early 20th century column extols Quaker Oats as the best energizer for workers on farms describing porridge with sugar and milk as a superior breakfast. It claims oats sustain vigor and economy and notes large family sizes are available. A separate vignette shows ailing husbands losing appetite and a maid from the old country observing invalids' finicky meals.
Mercury in catarrh remedies risks loss of smell and systemic damage. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is an internal remedy made in Toledo and sold by druggists for 7 cents per bottle. Also references humorous quips from The Bright Family and Illustrated Bits about marriage and romance.
A St Louis Post Dispatch fragment reports Councilman Drew spoofed banker William Lee in a late night interview, causing exchanges about wealth and whisky. The piece notes a Mulberry street wharf bench theft, leaving two posts and a disrupted moonlit view, and a Doyle town Republican correspondent’s scathing, chaotic Arctic club ambulance call.
A New York reader recounts a three year old son eating an entire box of Cuticura Ointment spread on crackers during a sea voyage. The writer claims the ointment is pure and harmless and that it even cured a bad cold, using the incident as testimonial. Potter Drug & Chemical Corp. promotes Cuticura as safe for children.
A collage of quips and cartoons from a bygone issue. It includes a gag about romantic gifts and unreturned affection, a child debating baths with his mother, a judge’s library quip, a gore lover’s remark, road humor from Puck, and social satire on wives kitchens and ancestral pride.
A Baltimore physician extols Resinol as a reliable remedy with prompt and pleasing action in acute and chronic skin diseases and ulcerations. The note highlights very great and unvarying success over six months.
A persuasive 1900s testimonial advertorial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aids women during change of life and other female ailments. Mrs E Stanton of Columbus Ohio and Mrs Charles Barclay of Graniteville Vermont report restored health and urge others to try the remedy. The ads tout decades of use and encourage neighborhood endorsements.
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