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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
33
A World War I era note extols Shredded Wheat Biscuit as the best digestible energy source for soldiers and workers. It claims two or three biscuits with milk provide a balanced breakfast, superior to meat eggs or potatoes, and notes production at Niagara Falls New York.
The Wild Life League plans its annual meeting at Conn eaut Lake during the week of September 3, featuring a growing sports show, field trials, bird dog events, rabbit dog championships open to all sizes, and a robust trapshooting and rifle program with women’s events. Bear chase, fox and coon hounds, bait and fly casting, aquatic events, and potential pilgrimage to Cook Forest are in the works. The event also notes a Brazilian snake farm supplying serum antidote for snake bites.
Corn sufferers gather round for Ice Mint the new foot treatment from a Japanese product. It promises quick relief from hard corns soft corns and calluses with no pain or irritation. A small jar can be bought in drug stores and is described as providing cooling comfort for tired swollen burning feet.
With acids poisoning the blood and causing heart and artery diseases plus skin, nerve, and joint ailments, act at once to restore health by cleansing the system and driving acids out. Diseases cited include Rheumatism, Catarrh, Eczema, Pimples, Boils, Rashes, Malaria, Scrofula, and general blood troubles.
A concise note shows that Influenced By Signs Of Zodiac is linked to its zodiac signs. The statement mentions a birth connection and attributes influence to astrological signs.
The Ringling Brothers circus opens its season with Darwin the elephant joining on opening day after a 5000 mile water journey in a wooden box. Under head trainer Wm Chambers Darwin has learned rapidly, with Chambers claiming animals share traits with humans through zodiac signs. The special exhibit in this city on Friday July 6 features an African display section.
A historic note claims 1870 marked the first commercial banana arrival in Boston. It argues bananas now travel from tropics to the United States, becoming a staple in cities and groceries worldwide. The piece extols taste, sanitary peel, cheapness, and science-backed nutrition, noting banana flour's hydration but lower protein.
The document lists the standard soldier ration components and weights for garrison or permanent camp meals. It specifies beef twenty ounces and substitutes like mutton or bacon, along with flour eighteen ounces and other items such as beans two point four ounces, potatoes twenty ounces, prunes one point twenty eight ounces, coffee eleven twelfths of an ounce, sugar one point two ounces, evaporated milk half an ounce, vinegar a quarter gill, salt six tenths of an ounce, black pepper four hundredths of an ounce, cinnamon fourteen thousandths of an ounce, lard six tenths of an ounce, butter half an ounce, syrup three tenths of a gill, and flavoring extract fourteen thousandths of an ounce.
The article notes that 1.16 ounces of either rice or hominy may be supplied in the reserve ration. It allows substitution with dried apples or peaches or with jam and preserves for prunes. The reserve ration is described as less varied.
TOLEDO Iowa June 22 Four members of the Ludvicheck family Bohemian farmers four miles west of the city were found slain by neighbors who broke in after none were seen since last Tuesday Three evidently were killed by the fourth who then ended his life The dead are Mrs Ludvicheck 70 years old James Hattie and Albert The latter was found with a rifle by his side.
Mrs. Etta Dorion of Ogdensburg Wisconsin describes severe female trouble with piercing back and side pains. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief after six bottles, noting doctors could do no more. She urges other women to try the product and offers to write for advice.
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