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Newspaper

Mena Star

Location

Mena, Arkansas, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1898

Page

6

In the Nursery: child development and care guidance

A Housewife magazine excerpt discusses bow legs from early standing, nutrition, and rickets as main factors. It notes cautious guidance for babies five months and older, warns against excessive diapers, and suggests ankle supports for curved ankles. It also covers daily mouth care, early cancer sore mouth risks, and safe treatments including chlorate of potash and carbolic acid rinses, with rhubarb cordial for constipation.

Christian Terhune Herrick

Reading Old Letters and Quiet Tea Gossip

A narrator reads old family letters by the fire and reflects on life, death, and memory, contrasting somber thoughts with the comfort of tea and shared gossip. The scene evokes nostalgia and the human longing for connection amid mortality.

Mary Mr. Brown Tribune

Valuable salvage ad notices from Polk county merchants

Local ads promote fresh flea powder at Jacksons and fly paper at Jacales Drug Store. Offers include hats, office supplies at Postoffice Book Store, hosiery and garments at Gallagher's, musical strings, and a large stock at Arkansaw and Pickering stores. Fishing tackle, baseball gear, and school supplies feature. land for sale, hardware, paint, and plumbing items also advertised.

Local Fraternal Lodge Meetings Listed

MENA LODGE No. 100 K of P meets Monday evenings in Castle Hall Blocksom's building with G W Knowlton C C J J Hamilton K of S R WOODMEN of the WORLD Camp No. 61 meets Thursday evenings. J C Byers C, W Ivan Matheny Clerk. KNIGHTS OF Equity Mester meets every Thursday night at Masonic hall with J C Byrne S K.

Mena Lodge Castle Hall G. W. Knowlton C . J. J. Hamilton Woodmen of the World J.C. Byers W. Ivan Matheny Knights OF Equity Masonic Hall J.C. Byrne Iron Hall K. P. Hall Ethel Blocksom

Rubber goods offer from OOLE CHEMICAL CO Chicago

An advertisement invites readers to obtain rubber products guaranteed for easy mind and lifetime use. It promises prepaid $100, prepaid pricing, and requests readers to write for prices from OOLE CHEMICAL CO located at 288 Evanston Ave, Chicago.

Ladie Oole Chemical CO Evanston, Ave Chicago

Also Mentioned on This Page

Jackson Jacale’s Owen Postoffice Book Store RS. Owen Hamilton-Brown Postoffice Book Arkansaw Green & Lewis Gallagher's R.S. Owen Pickering Postoffice Joplin Monarch Vane Calvert and Mena Paint and Paper Company Ewin Queen St W. J. Lloyd Hardware J. W. Cary Mena Flight Depot D. Nicholls DeQueen Street Hudgins Sherwood Avenue Geo. W. Knowlton N. M. Roach Fright Depot Ark Kansas City Star Bridge & Beach Cook Lloyd Hardware de Queen Street Polk County Arthur Dally Ienne D. J. Cavette Presbyterian Church New Church Amsterdam and Zwolle Streets Igrarer O’élock TH. Er. Schimerhorn M.E. Church South Epworth League Sp.m J, Guerne Ing. L. Comrere Christian Church P. Young Methodist Episcopal Church Ames Massey A.P A. M. Dallas Lodge No. 128 Thad M. Carder W.M. V. Portel City Council Corncil Chamber Mark Whayne J. D. Jones F.C. Savage Nena Wheeler & Wilson Pickering Avenue W. I. Boyer Pipkin & Hanes North Mena St Arkansas Chicago Brokerage Co Clark St Chicago, Ill All Via & Cos Broadway New York Washington, D America WAR For Humanity John J. Ingalls Kansas Spal N. C. Thompson Publishing CO St. Louis New York City Ewi Queen Street
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