War Tax Edict Outlines Broad Surtaxes in 1917 Bill
The notice details postages three cents per ounce, two cents per postal card, theater admissions tax of ten percent on tickets, dues tax of ten percent for clubs over twelve dollars yearly, tobacco taxes, express and passenger transport levies, and telegraph or telephone charges. It explains rates on life, marine, inland, and casualty insurance, and outlines monthly reporting requirements for those collecting these taxes. Washington portrays unity against the Kaiser with citizens bearing the cost of the war effort.
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Oll
Washington
Sam
United States
Cos
Vsc
Canada
Mexico
Treasury Department
Greatest Thing in the World and Watteau’s Final Years
A reflection on personality as the true greatness beyond physical or mental strength. Antoine Watteau, a premier French artist, created major decorative panels while near death from tuberculosis, rising to national fame in his final years before dying at thirty seven.
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Daniel Webster
Lincoln
Antoine Watteau
France
The Average Man Faces More Than One Kick Coming
A terse editorial line argues that an average man may confront multiple setbacks or challenges, implying a hardening stance on personal accountability and consequences.
Headache Relief Ads and Cautionary Note
Ad copy promotes Capudine as quick headache relief in liquid form and Renovine as a heart and nerve tonic priced at 50 cents and 1.00. It includes a caution against gambling with heart health and a humorous line about a woman needing sound judgment to generate silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capudine
Cuticura offers relief for itching and skin troubles
Cuticura soap cleanses and purifies while the ointment soothes and heals skin and scalp itch. Daily use helps prevent small troubles from becoming serious. Free samples by mail with a booklet. Cuticura Dept L Boston. Advertisement. Also promotes Femenina for female disorders at 50c and 1.00.
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Dept. L
Boston
Fake health ads flood a reader notice page
A garbled mix of patent medicine claims and promotional lines parades as a local reader notice. It touts Liver Pills, Hall's Catarrh Medicine, and Laxative Quinidine Tablets with urging about cures, rewards, and dietary advice amid unrelated cautions and generic slogans.
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Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Mansfield Cough Balm Ad Claims Quick Cough Relief
An early 20th century advertisement urges avoiding medical bills by taking Mansfield Cough Balm for a hacking cough. It markets bottles for 25¢ and 50c and pitches fast relief as a cost effective option. A separate line claims a woman appears most beautiful when leaving a man's life.
August Flower Remedy Widely Praised For Digestive Ailments
Green's August Flower is promoted as a household panacea for constipation, indigestion, liver trouble, and low spirits. The advertisement claims quick relief with a few doses and labels it a gentle laxative, urging readers to ask their druggist.
Everyone’s Luck and the Bargain Hunter’s Gold Brick
A quaint saying notes that regardless of luck a bargain hunter can still uncover a gold brick. The line contrasts random fortune with persistent thrift, implying value may appear where least expected.
Tobacco and confectionery in Australia per year
The notice states Australia consumes about 15,975,000 annually in tobacco and 20,655,000 in confectionery. It quotes an advertisement for La Creole hair dressing promising youth by darkening gray hair.
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Australia
The Last Examination of War's Draft
An article argues kidney disease harms many men in the draft and promotes a patent remedy Anuric from Dr Pierce at Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo. It urges drinking water, claims Anuric dissolves uric acid, and asks readers to send 10 cents for a trial packet.
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Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N.ee
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Safe Liver Cleansing
An ad promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a gentle, vegetable liver remedy that avoids dangerous calomel. It claims quick relief from headaches dizziness and constipation and asserts a money back guarantee from Clifton Bickley of Sandusky.
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Calomel
Dodson
Dodsom
Prominent Texan Claims Cure by Anuric Tablets
Seagoville Texas peace officer T J Allen aged 45 reveals lifelong rheumatism. After severe winter ailment in 1910 he found relief and says he is cured using Dr Pierce's Anuric Tablets, praising the remedy highly. Ady.
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Seagoville
Dallas Co
Texas
Dr. Pierce
Your Watch-Dog Liver It Keeps You Well
Purifying liver medicine from vegetables, Thedford's Black Draught is praised as a reliable remedy for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Biliousness, and related aches. A Kentucky merchant reports relief from constipation and headaches after regular use, improving appetite and weight.
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Bond
Ady
Thedford
Ko J. McKinney
Mt. Vernon
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Prussia
Cascara
Mr. Hill
Ft. A
Thomas E. Orken
Houston
Siam
China
Iceland
Wright
Clifton Bickley
Sandusky
T. J. Allen
Peden Iron & Steel
SAN Antone
Ag Cine
Kress
Tex
Preston
Hardway & Cathey
Soso Exe
Rt. Louis
Snd Corporsations
Texas Bag & Fibre Co
Houston, Tex
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Lydia E -Pinkham
Lynn
Mas
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