Woman Seeks Relief through Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Georgetown Illinois woman Margaret McCumber recounts severe back pain and inability to walk without bending. After doctors offered surgery, she found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, enabling her to perform daily tasks and prompting her to recommend the remedy to others.
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Georgetown
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret McCumber
Frazier St
Illinois
McCumber
Cuticura Toilet Trio Ad Promotes Complexion Care
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap for daily cleansing and Ointment for periodic use to clear the complexion. It also highlights Cuticura Talcum for fragrance and skin softness, pairing social commentary with the product trio in a period voice.
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Ady
Aunt Dolly Spencer Named Milford Mayor on Pie Streak
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes Aunt Dolly Spencer won Milford Ohio’s mayoral race, driven largely by her cherry pie crust. The quirky claim highlights a popular local confection influencing political success.
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Dolly” Spencer
Milford
Dolly
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Guarding Food From Dirt and Germs: Public Health Advice
Careful handling prevents contamination by micro organisms or flies that cause illness. The Department of Agriculture urges washing hands before handling food, scalding dishes, using clean towels, and keeping food in clean places to avoid typhoid, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
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Department of Agriculture
Make Clothes Last Longer Through Proper Care
Advice on preserving garments stresses value of care over cost. Emphasizes washing cotton and linen to remove body oils, airing on hangers to reduce wrinkles, and cautious sponging and pressing to avoid yellowing or color fading.
Butter and eggs drive farm wives earnings
Farm women rely on butter and egg sales for most personal spending. Butter output links to cows kept. chicken numbers depend on skill and time. Women in agriculture clubs learn modern poultry methods and form circles to secure better prices.
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Department of Agriculture
Economy in cooking fruits improves fuel use
The article explains that cooking five pounds of prunes dried apples or apricots requires only slightly more fuel and time than cooking one pound. It notes preserving leftovers by canning for future use and suggests dried fruits for puddings breads cookies and for making marmalades butters and jams.
All Around The House Dish Tips and Odd Observations
Iron colored linen on the wrong side and asbestos as lining for doilies appear in a quirky list of home tips. It suggests using creamed meat in potato cases and filling gem pans with water to prevent scorching. Butter fingers when stoning raisins to avoid stickiness. Pineapple juice may replace half the vinegar in French dressing.
Deficit in State Fee Appropriation Hits County Officials
Austin Texas The Thirty sixth legislature appropriation of 354000 to pay sheriffs district attorneys county attorneys and other county officials is exhausted State Controller Lon A Smith announces deficiency warrants are issued A 60000 fund for examining trials is only 5000 remaining Nearly 90 percent of such trials stem from liquor law arrests The controller urges officials to hold accounts until a special session beginning July 11 when a request for appropriation will be made and warrants issued to cover.
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Austin
Texas
Lon A. Smith
Smith
Treasury
Memorial Day at Arlington Honors War Dead and Liberty
Washington memorial ceremonies led by President Harding marked Memorial Day as an international occasion. He pledged the nation’s commitment to freedom and civilization as veterans from three wars listened amid diplomats and officials. Sir Auckland Geddes placed a wreath from the United Kingdom on the American flag in tribute to American sacrifices for liberty.
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Washington
National Capital
Arlington Cemetery
Harding
Arlington Amphitheatre
America
Auckland Geddes
United Kingdom
Maud Muller referenced in garden lyric dialogue
A humorous exchange highlights the line Oh, come into the garden, Maud from the poet and the implied Maud Muller. The snippet nods to classic verse and its cultural resonance.
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Maud
Maud Muller
Genuine Bayer Aspirin Warns for Authentic Packaging
Aspirin must bear Bayer on the package or tablets to be genuine and safe as prescribed for twenty one years. Take only as directed on Bayer packaging for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. Handy twelve tablet tins cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists.
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Bayer
Seven Die in Army Plane Wreck Near Washington
Seven were killed when an army Curtiss-Eagle ambulance aircraft crashed in a wind and electrical storm near Indian Head Maryland forty miles southeast of Washington. The dead include Lieutenant Colonel Archer Miller A S A M P Washington Maurice Connolly Dubuque Iowa former House member A G Batchelder Washington ASA A C Batchelder airline official Lieutenant Stanley M Ames pilot Langley Field Virginia Lieutenant Cleveland W McDermott Langley Field Sergeant John M Pennewilliams Langley Field and Sergeant Richard Blumenkranz Washington.
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Washington
Indian Head
Maryland
Archer Miller
Maurice Connolly
Dubuque
Iowa
House of Representatives
A. G. Batchelder
American Automobile Association
Stanley M. Ames
Cleveland W. McDermott
Langley Field
John M. Pennewill
Richard Blumenkranz
Ultra-Violet Rays Used to Disinfect Barrels
For years ultraviolet rays have sterilized water and milk. The idea now applies to disinfecting barrels and casks.
Light Snow Reports Across Montana
Light snows are reported at widely separated places in Montana with the heaviest fall in the mountain sections. Helena and surrounding areas see flakes as winter weather begins to bite.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Jap Ship Caught Sealing Off Canadian Waters
The Japanese schooner was caught sealing in Canadian waters near Prince Rupert British Columbia. The 8 8 Malaspina arrested the crew, seized 150 skins, and then destroyed the vessel, according to a Friday report.
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Prince Ruppert
B. C
Malaspina
Still Captured Near Iola
Anderson Texas sheriff Stewart captured a fifty gallon still and 660 gallons of mash about four miles west of Iola.
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Iola
Anderson
Tex
Stewart
Woman Kidney Trouble Ad Promises Relief
A vintage advertisement urges women to seek kidney and bladder care, linking back and other symptoms to kidney disease. It promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy, urging readers to buy a bottle or send ten cents for a sample to Dr Kilmer & Co in Binghamton New York and to note the newspaper.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
A Asonte Herve
Freedom's Flight Inspires Reflections by Poet and Actor
A poet reflects on thoughts taking flight as freedom in mind and art. An actor comments that ideas escape from brain cells, hinting at creativity and imagination across disciplines.
Fingerprint Cards at Scotland Yard Reach 210000
Scotland Yard reports finger print cards total 210000 in a national filing effort. The milestone marks a large data collection aimed at improving criminal identification and records management.
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Scotland Yard
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