Health tips and ads from old newspapers
A rough collage of health notes and ads. It cites respiration rates, a men’s book offer from the Peabody Medical Institute, a London smoke cloud estimate, Allen’s Foot-Ease for tired feet, and a quip about a man boasting of a family tree.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch St
Boston
Mass
Hot Springs Hotels and Government Endorsement
The piece notes Wnete Sam's Hot Baths in Hot Springs Arkansas as government owned with endorsement for cures of rheumatism malaria nervous disorders and many ailments. It mentions the pleasant summer climate cooling hotels for all classes and a Bureau of Information in Hot Springs plus illustrated book and excursion tickets from Southern Railway. Some men are such deep thinkers that their thoughts never reach the surface.
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Wnete Sam
Arkansas
U. S
Hot Springs
Bureau of Information
Thiveatt
Southern Railway
Broadway
New York
What Shall We Have For Dessert
A family question answered with Jell-O as a quick, healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes with hot water, no boiling or baking required. Flavors include Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. priced at 10c at grocers. The cream of society is not always formed from the milk of human kindness.
Patent nostrums and industry notes from a period piece
A collage of health quackery and industrial facts notes tonic bottles, Vermifuge aging, iron and quinine tonic, Breeman's Pepsin Gum, and railway traffic at Birmingham. The text also mentions American blast furnaces, doctor ratios, and a stray garbled line about a cure and nervous fits.
The Army Marches Through Enemy Country In Spectacle
An observer describes a British column advancing through enemy territory as a grand, sweeping display. Cavalry screen guards and advance points scout ahead, sounding alarms by living electric buttons. The advance guard forms a fighting unit with engineers, medics, and ammunition wagons, followed by the baggage train and rear guard with military police.
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Ribbonaise
Pretoria
Tramp Ashes Scheme Revealed by Wealthy Ex-Industrialist
A retired chemicals magnate recalls a past plan to grow cigar ashes by exploiting tramp labor in a ventilated factory room. He describes paying four cents per cigar, tallying earnings by numbered checks, and boarding-house meals, initially praising the setup as a public benefit before the venture faltered.
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Eéxmee
Lowngine
Chernozem or black earth of Russia and Siberia
The Chernozem or black earth belt spans 600 to 700 miles across from Hungary to the Ural and into Siberia. Soils share a high humus content and alkaline chemistry with our prairies, rich in phosphoric acid lime potash and other alkalies, aiding wheat growth.
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Russia
Siberia
Hungary
Ural Mountains
Caucasus
Bradstreet’s
Jell O flavors and quine tablet ads appear in page mix
An assorted ad page features Jell O in four flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry for 10 cents. It also promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee and Ge W Groves signature on each box. A note about California gold output for 1809 and a proverb about a bird on the hat is included.
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Ge. W. Grovr
Amland Elects Women to All Municipal Posts
The article notes Amland appoints women to every municipal office, signaling liberal and progressive spirit of a small nation under Russian domination. It mentions quarterly lotteries in Russia selecting husbands and wives by chance drawing.
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Amland
Russia
Servents
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London
Allen
Allan
Bashalen
Drugeists
Olmsted
LeHov
N. Y
Gnovs
New Street
Birmingham
England
Frey
Breeman
United States
British Isles
Siveria
California
Ayer
S. L. Spellman
Columbus
Ohio
Tobago
Eureka Chemical CO
la Crosse
Wis
D. F.hann
46Th St
Wiis