Moonshine Recipe And Labor Stand Against Sugar
A sensational jumbled excerpt explains a moonshine formula mixing malt and ivy with other items, claiming four gallons yield about $160 at market prices and notes a social signal about bootleggers. A separate item reports five hundred workers at a New Palestine Ohio tire firm agreeing not to use sugar in beverages until prices drop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Times
Tire and Rubber Company
New Palestine
Ohio
Handkerchiefs fetch $100 as a sign of times
A report notes a dealer sold a handkerchief for $100 as a single bold example of inflation. The piece argues such extravagance and promotes thrift stamps and Savings Certificates from the United States as a safe, patriotic investment plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
United States of America
Facts and Fancies column sketches urban thrift and wit
Mack humorously muses on Prohibition era shifts from book sellers to bootlegging profits. He riffs on grown up ambitions, car specifics, Broadway fashions, alibis, and a Bath county freight delay, using playful sayings and local color.
Quotations Reflect Social Trends From Early 20th Century Press
A collage of satirical snippets from Lexington papers lampoons fashion, gender roles, economics, and public life. It cites fashion ideals for women, perceptions of men, wage and gas price impacts, labor strikes, and contemporary editorials as cultural commentary.
Nature's Rem NR tablets promise holistic digestive relief
An advertisement urges readers to avoid harsh laxatives and calomel. It claims Nature's Rem blots strengthen digestion by toning the stomach liver bowels and kidneys, improving assimilation and preventing headaches. One tablet occasionally keeps one well without daily medicines.
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Chiropodist
Dr. Weber
Main and Broadway
Jordof Bldg
Mack
Atlanta Journal
Armour & Company
Mt. Sterling
Broadway
Madame
Wood- Cox
Bath County
Goodyear
Ford
Chevrolet
Dort
Maxwell
Oodyear
Ragan-Gay Motor CO
General Tires
McDonald Bros
Lexington Herald
Enoch
America
Congress
St. Joseph
Menifee
Bailey
Puck
Woman
Lexington Leader
Chas. B. Young
West Short St
Lexington
Kentucky
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