Underground Treasures and Various Mail-Order Schemes
A collage of unsolicited notices offers underground treasure claims, investment pitches, home income schemes, and mail order offers. Items include guaranteed returns, stock opportunities, selling jobs, and health remedies with urging language and request for small fees.
Fire-Proof Ink Promises Fire Resistant Paper
An English inventor has prepared a fire proof ink for use by attorneys and others needing blaze resistant documents. The ink, made with varnish lampblack and chemicals, darkens to a brownish black when exposed to fire, yet becomes transparent after a fire on asbestos and fiber paper.
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Popular Mechanics
Island Java Population Report Sparks Global Interest
Crowded Island Java with area not larger than New York State hosts about 36 million residents. Analysts note density challenges, urban planning needs, and potential impacts on regional economies and resource distribution.
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Java
New York
Favorite Prescription Advertises Health During Expectant Periods
An advertisement claims the Favorite Prescription keeps women in good physical condition during pregnancy. It promotes liquid or tablet forms sold by druggists and offers free advice from Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo New York. The notice, dated 1929, invites requests for a trial package and location details.
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Pierce's Invalids Hotel
Buffalo
WN. Y
Easter Dress Parade Reflects Spring and Social Opulence
An essay connects the Easter dress parade to the season's renewal and national display of wealth. It argues clothing origins lie in adornment and social attention, not modesty or utility, noting fashion changes since 1915 and pondering why society invests so much in Easter attire.
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United States
United States Department of Commerce
Wilady
Fifth Avenue
Eve
Mack Sennett
Nto
Milady
No Sleep for Guest in Abode of Cranks
John Sloan the painter spoke at a New York dinner about colonies becoming set in their ways. He cited Paris New Mexico California Florida and Atlantic City. In Atlantic City the golf cranks and auction cranks disturb neighbors with late night bids and shouted golf terms.
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John Sloan
New York
Paris
New Mexico
California
Florida
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Phillips Milk of Magnesia ad claims universal relief
A vintage advertisement praises Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a pleasant neutralizer for stomach acid in children and adults. It stresses ease of use, household necessity, and the long established trademark and endorsement by physicians.
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Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co
Charles H. Phillips
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