New Faces for Wounded Men By English Sculptor Wood
English born sculptor Francis Derwent Wood creates facial masks and prosthetics for WWI soldiers with lost noses cheeks and eyes. He and his aides at Chelsea Arts Club and Roehampton hospital craft copper and wax facial plates to restore appearance and enable former tradesmen to work and marry again.
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London
Francis* Derwent Wood
United States
Wood
America
Lady Paget
Duchess of Marlborough
Everitt
Fergusson
Canadian Field Artillery
Ypres
Harper
King’s Royal Rifles
Lance Corporal
Davis
Australian Imperial
Royal Academy
Henry Phipps
J. Phipps
Westbury
L. I
Derwent Wood
Roehampton
Man Charged With Assault After Attempted Kidnapping
Blaine Redding, 32, was charged with assault and battery after allegedly attempting to carry off Miss Ethel Springer, 17, from Fullertown. The charge was later withdrawn and he was adjudged insane and sent to a state hospital. He fled after beating three men who tried to intervene.
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Redding
Hallard
Rhodes
Newbury State Hospital
Insect Cuts Down Trees in California
Grass Valley reports the state fights the pleocoma beetle, a scarab family pest. Insectary agents collect larvae to breed specimens and study its life cycle. Found underground, it kills mature trees with precise cuts. Larva exceeds two inches with strong jaws. no control methods known.
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Grass Valley
Cal
California
Mrs Clark and Children In Washington Society Spotlight
Mrs. Edgar B. Clark and her two children Mary and Edgar B. Jr. participate in Washington society while Mrs Clark supports her family. She is married to an interstate commerce Commissioner and balances public life with family duties.
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Edgar B. Clark
Mary
Edgar B. Jr
Clark
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Washington
Dodson's Liver Tone touted as safer calomel alternative
Local druggists report a drop in calomel sales and promote Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable remedy. Ad guarantees money back if it fails to replace calomel, claiming the tonic cleanses the liver, prevents headaches, biliousness and stomach troubles, and leaves users with clear heads and vigor. Also includes a statistic about national per capita wealth rising from 308 to 1965.
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Dodson
Grove's Tasteless Chill Ton ic Ad Claim No Malaria
A vintage advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with Quinine and Iron as a malaria remedy priced at 50 cents. It includes a claim of guaranteed fever and chills relief or money back and mentions a quip about a St Louis widow talking to a chair.
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GROVE
St. Louis
Nat
Purse-String Skin Care Ad Promotes Free Sample
An old advertisement touts Cuticura family emollients for skin scalp hair and hands. It claims to clear pimples blotches redness roughness and dandruff and offers a free sample by mail with Book address postcard Cuticura Dept L Boston. Ends with a note about women and baby sleep.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Tetterine Promises Quick Relief for Skin Ailments
An advertisement extols Tetterine as instant relief for eczema ringworm and related itching skin troubles, claiming permanent cure and urging purchase from J. T. Shuptrine of Savannah Georgia. It also includes ads for Femenina a remedy for female disorders and a proverb about a wagon tongue.
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J. T. Shuptrine
Savannah
Ady
Cause of Sickness and Trade Talk in Conversation
A dialogue notes cigars from the Philippines and a comment on public health. Ebbert mentions the board of health deciding the illness cause while the talk turns to personal matters and the impact of matrimony on happiness.
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Philippines
Egbert
Board of Health
Try Capudine for Colds and Gripp
An old advertisement claims Capudine relieves cold symptoms and feverishness, aids nature to recover, and helps headaches. The copy notes the ad is a beauty filler and includes a Pittsburgh Post quip about a pretty girl drawing callers to her parents.
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Pittsburgh Post
Age of Youth Ad and Domestic Banter Fragments
An advertisement touts La Creole Hair Dressing promising youth with darker hair. A humorous domestic exchange questions Ethel marrying a young man and whether his wife would welcome him staying at her home.
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Ethel
Boston Evening Transcript
Ambitions of Understanding a Woman Spark Debate
A fragment notes a remark on the difficulty some men feel in truly understanding a woman, reflecting attitudes about gender perception and self confidence.
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Francis Derwent Wood
Kaiser
G. D. K. von Boehm
Boca Grande
Mexico
Madman
Fullertown
Hanford
Hitort Wie
Carter
Cutter’s
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
Capudine
Parker
Druggista
TNA
Hunt
A. B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman, Tex
Lydia E. Pinkham
Texas
General Hardware
Peden Iron & Steel CO
Houston
San Antonio
Calmora Houston, Texas
Daily Fly
Express
Harold Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
Gallotene Remedy Co
Dept
Dearborn St
Chicago
W. H. Brown
Life Bidg
BT. Louis
Max
Thacher Medicine CO
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ersmith Gee Tes
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