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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1918
Page
6
A vintage advertisement promotes Wreth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair and restore a younger appearance. It claims natural, even coloring after daily use and offers home preparation or purchase from drugstores. The filler warns it is not for disease treatment.
A concise reflection quoting Blaise Pascal on how kind words cost little yet yield much. They soften others, foster good nature, and shape the speaker and listener into a gentler, more noble image.
Advertisement notes how eliminating industrial waste from long leaf pine could raise Gailly production to 4,000 tons of paper 8,000 tons of resin 300 000 gallons of turpentine and 600 000 gallons of ethyl keep your eye on the Centa Word page.
A home brew for liver and bowels promises quick relief from constipation headaches dizziness and torpid liver. The old time vegetable remedy is advertised as mild gentle and suitable for children as well as adults with a prompt, economical effect and easy use.
Chicago reports half of 25 million school age children have physical defects hindering development. Willard S. Small of the federal Bureau of Education urges universal physical education from ages six to 15 and beyond. He cites 200,000 draft rejects as evidence that fitness shapes life, work, and happiness and calls for federal aid to train teachers and fund skilled services.
An old advertisement touts a cure all called Whes Tongue Is Ceated Drak Celery King. It claims the remedy eases fevers, headaches, dizziness, stomach issues, and liver sluggishness. It suggests drinking a hot cup before bed and sells a generous package for a few cents through druggists.
After three cheers and a playful line barkis is willin the A E F, Miss Besler began a trend in American camps. Since then she has visited many camps and received countless proposals, though no censor would reveal numbers.
Paris dispatch reports Miss Helen Besler daughter of the President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey has become the most proposed-to girl in France after singing a nursery song in an American camp The humorous tale notes soldiers found her appealing and she is described as pretty petite and typically American despite the song about being alone in a wood
Margaret Lane of 19 Wadkill Avenue reports a clipping from the Paris edition of the New York Herald dated November 8 about her six sons in military service. Arthus and Lee serve in France with the American Army. Barry is at a Texas camp. Edward reports to South Brooklyn Naval Reserve. Clarence and Frank are in the draft. The item circulated through Times-Press and New York papers before Paris.
The article describes bluing a gun barrel with nitric acid and water, forming blue film on the surface, then washing and drying. It also gives a table of water pressure per square inch at various depths, noting 5 to 20 fathoms yield 1299 to 51.96 pounds per square inch.
The article explains Ukraine's name origin from the Ukreing term and outlines its geographic bounds between Poland and Rus. It notes the Doleper river crossing the region, black soil richness, and that two-thirds of Russia's cereals come from Ukraine, which also leads in other natural resources.
A short feature notes that paper bearing written symbols is not discarded in Chinese culture, tracing an ancient custom linked to respect for learning. It cites a National Security League figure Robert L. McElroy and describes mothers teaching children to place scraps in temple garden buildings, warning of divine wrath for neglect.
An old advertisement touts Wendell's Ambition Pills as a quick cure for vigor loss and nervous complaints. It promises refunds if unsatisfied with the first box and claims wide praise for addressing nervous prostration, low mood, overwork, tobacco overuse, or general debility. The ad cites a price of fifty cents and lists Turbill & Terhune as sellers.
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