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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1918
Page
2
Voice of an old advertisement urging readers to buy GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to treat backaches urinary symptoms and kidney infections. It promises rapid relief within 24 hours and is reinforced with money back guarantee and instructions to consult a grocer for the original brand.
The excerpt blends quips about wills cooking salad days and harsh peace terms with dialogue on domestic life. It shows fragmented humor and social commentary without a clear news event or identifiable people.
A Chicago Herald Examiner poem mocks a loan shark who thrived on whiskey profits. He laments happier days, noting his customers’ shift to sobriety after Demon Rum is curtailed. The verse blends satire with Prohibition era imagery as bars close and a new school rises.
London correspondent notes Odell's view that U S army and society show reduced drinking after prohibition and that Washington lacks saloons. Denver reports tourists and business thriving under prohibition with breweries pivoting to near beer and malted milk while divorce cases cite intoxication as grounds for separation.
A collage of notes covers the origin of gutta percha named from Malayan words, its 1842 introduction by Dr. Montgomery, wartime price doubling for cotton and linen, laundry aids like Red Cross Ball Blue, and miscellaneous items including a stubborn fountain pen, Pellets, mail in Dutch Flat, and bells from Christ church Wellington sent to France.
A garbled note references a $100.09 offer for a case of catarrh and mentions a mucous rate system. The text also alludes to tobacco smoke and a pipe dream without clear context or coherent details.
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