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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1898
Page
2
A Northern visitor recounts a New Orleans evening where eight local men formed a guiding lantern-led guard for a stranger and her escort after the opera, signaling courteous Southern manners and forming a silent, polite procession as they located the correct house.
Advice on daily gentle facial massage to improve contour and complexion. Use a camel hair brush with soap and tepid water, massage upward from chin to forehead, avoid rubbing hard. Also a note praising DeWitt's Little Early Risers for liver cleansing and health benefits. Pipkin and Hanes.
A Georgia editor candidly admits hostility to bribes while noting the pressure of supporting a large family and rent. The piece mocks solicitations and claims to resist gifts, then oddly endorses a supposed remedy, One Minute Cough Cure, as a life saver for children and throat ailments.
The article notes the first and last Confederate stands occurred on land once owned by Mr McLean who moved to Appomattox seeking safety from war. It mentions a boy obtaining DeWitts Little Early Risers from a local druggist as a household remedy while referencing Pipkin & Hanes.
A Cameron Pennsylvania reader cites George Elliot on restrained speech and asserts a ten year pile problem cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve after using one box. The statement promotes Pipkin and Hanes as sellers.
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