Quack Medical Claims and Home Remedies Parade
A jumble of "remedies" and patient letters describe tonics, tablets, and potions for headaches indigestion cough and skin problems. Advertisements claim cures for dandruff rheumatism cough and obesity with labeled pills syrups and tinctures priced via mail order. readers urged to consult physicians but offered dubious at home solutions.
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Bee
Tohn & Lenappantil
Andiver
Dirrellang
Hla
Klin
The Doctor Answers Health and Beauty Questions
The column presents general health inquiries with humorous misprints. It invites readers to send full names and addresses for free advice from Dr. Lewie Baker in Dayton Ohio and notes prescriptions available at Wallatockd drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewie Baker
College
College-Tliwood
Dayton
Ohio
Wallatockd
Grace Erye and Neva Smith To Appear In City Concert
Grace Erye and Neva Smith of Iowa City are featured soloists for a March concert at the First Congregational church. Rowland H. Annual of Grinnell will play organ with Mrs. Frank Glesier and others. Bloise Brainerd, another Iowa City soprano, will sing at the March concert, with two song groups including works by White Hogerk Parker and Rachmaninoff. Mrs. Ange In will read, marking her first public appearance in months, and additional performers include Mrs. Nelle M. Johnson, Ollye Strickler, and a double trio of local women.
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Neva Smith
Iowa City
City
Lrst Congregational Church
Rowland H. P. Annual
Grinnett
Splendle Ablitting
Grimer Glee Club
Jows City
Mr Smith Ty
J. S. McKee
Weat
Misa Bloise Brainerd
Mra. J. St. St. John
Church
Misa Crainerd
Iming
Nelle M. Johnson
Misg Ollye Strickler
B. L. McGolm
Julio Binbansen
F. H. Little
J. M. St. Join
Fred Pentzer
Wit McQuesten
Freckle-Fage Remedy Promises Clear Complexion
An advertisement explains February and March as peak freckle months and touts athine double strength from A. W. Morgan. Apply steat and morning to fade freckles, with a money back guarantee if athine fails. urges shoppers to act now to preserve beauty.
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A. W. Morgan
Othine
Woman Pastor’s Wife Elected Club President
The article records a brief church and women’s club program noting Mrs Be De Brulne as president of the organization after the former pastor’s wife resignation. Light refreshments followed the session.
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Marry Liebbe
Be de Brulne
H. Mollema
Fred Vander Ploog
Lucas Wheel
CWO
J. N. Elliott
Bloomington
Leber
Champaign
Joe
Presbyterian Industrial Society
J. J. Hintermeister
Wallie Coyner
Frauen Verein
German Lutheran Zions Church
W F Gray Transferred to Davenport Post
W F Gray, abstract clerk in the freight office of the C R I & P railroad in Davenport, moves next week to take a relim agent position there. He has served seven years locally, and his removal is met with regret. James Curtin likely replaces Gray as abstract clerk, with the entire office workforce expected to advance.
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W. F .Cluny
C., R. 1, & P. Railroad Company
Davenport
James Curtin
Gray
Unionists Press Tariff Call Over Printing Imports
A union meeting of allied printing and bookbinding trades association of America urged Congress to adjust tariff laws on all printing and related imports from Europe and elsewhere. The resolution seeks to equalize labor costs between U.S. and European producers. The London dated note reflects broader trade concerns of labor groups.
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London
England
Allied Printing and Bookbinding Trades Association of America
Congress
Europe
Message from May June on Vinci remedy boosts strength
A.M. Dumas of May June Iowa endorses Vinci cod liver oil and iron tonic as a strength builder for run down mothers and worried families. The ad promises improved health, a money back guarantee, and notes A. W. Morgan Drug Store in Muscatine Iowa sells the product.
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Mag Tea Dumas
May Jone
Vinci
Miss Dumas
Vinc
A. W. Morgan
Drugster
West Second Street
Mus
Qutine
Iowa
Adv
General Iowa probe eyed to study social and industrial ills
A Des Moines conference on Iowa's social and industrial conditions sparks talk of a broad inquiry into vice causes and prevention. Senators Roe and Perkins urge a thorough, nationwide look beyond sensational reporting, possibly examining divorce as a contributing factor. a governor’s conference discussed actions, with a May report planned.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Towa
Roe
Chicago
Perkins
the Assembly
Klay
Senate committees consider education, health and rail rate issues
Reports from a sub committee indicate backing for state board control over college curricula and a push to reverse actions at the homeopathic department in Iowa City. Other actions include a fish net mesh increase to 2 1/2 inches, opposition to a 5 year quail closed season, an extra health enforcement appropriation request, and a railroad rate hearing to restore fair excursion pricing. The State fair has suffered from missing previously granted reduced rates.
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State Board of Education
Senate
Roy- A
State Board
Homeopathic Medical Department
Iowa City
Senate Committee On Fish and Game
Quall
Larrabee
State Board of Health
Mattes
Appropriations Committee
Railroad Committee
Railroad Commission
Alea
Identification Positive for Mrs. Boggesy Body
In St Louis on March 14 Dr John Boggesy and his brother in law David J Kesting returned from inspecting a body taken from the Mississippi near St Genevieve. They declared the remains identifiably Mrs Boggesy who disappeared from Kaneag City last fall, noting hair and teeth features.
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Boggesy
St. Louis
Misntesippi River
St. Genevieve
John
David J.kesting
Mra. Boggess
Kaneag City
Secret Service Jobs Draw Mass Of Applicants in Washington
Washington March 14 Despite denial that McAdoo plans a purge of secret service personnel hundreds of daily applications pour in for Chief Flynn and subordinates. Some claim they can detect counterfeit coins, others promise gum shoe work or caricature skills while 4000 applications have arrived since March with no vacancies in sight.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
McAdoo
United States
Flynn
Col
Lyman
Indors
Treasury Department
Safe Farm Mortgage Loans For Sale By Utus Loan Co
Iowa investors offered choice farm mortgage loans with interest and principal collected without charge. Utus Loan & Investment Co. advertises sales at 214 Iowa Ave Adv.
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Iowa
Utus Loan & Investment Co
Towa Ave
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