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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1916
Page
8
An old advertisement-style piece urges drinking hot water with lime phosphate before breakfast to purify the stomach and bowels, claiming it removes toxins from liver kidneys and intestines and restores vitality. It contrasts this with a story about coffee alternatives and Postum testimonials.
The article advises transforming a front yard to a smooth lawn with minimal flower beds. It endorses Hydrangea paniculata as a single shrub, notes other favorites like Deutzia, Spiraea, Syringa, Calycanthus, and Spigelia, and recommends staggered planting in back rows for extended bloom and color harmony.
Guidance on creating cheerful window boxes for north exposures. Recommends English ivy or variegated vinca as hardy vines, annual begonias for color, dracaena terminals to add height, and pansies with salvia for shade. Notes ivy survives winter. other plants may be killed by frost while evergreens can fill space.
A year into the European war a wide front sees German gains around Ypres and in the Le Pretre forest while battles erupt in Central Poland and Galicia. Russian setbacks at Kevno Orawa and Opor valleys, and Austro Hungarian offensives near Clerkwice. Allied actions include Gallipoli advances and naval losses including Minterne and several steamers.
German forces push in Ypres sector while French win ground in Alsace. Tarnow, Jasio, and Oukia report Teuton advances as Russians expelled from the Dunajec and Biaia rivers. Russian air crews bomb Constantinople as Gallipoli battles worsen. Five British ships sunk by submarines. Lusitania torpedoed with 1154 dead including 102 Americans. Turks seize ten British guns at Sedul Banhr.
A collage of trivia notes covers second marriages about twelve per hundred, lack of a federal leprosarium in the continental United States, Swedish coal limits and peat experiments, Uruguay locust invasions delaying a census, a French doctor’s breathing aid, elephants used in England, and a Sheffield firm hiring a retired circus elephant to pull loads amid horse shortages.
Colembeth Obie recounts six years of sickness with stomach pain and waning strength. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and a new staff of women for restoring health, weight gain, and renewed energy.
A brief quip notes that when a man keeps an eye on enemies he may be blindsided by friends, hinting at mistrust and the dangers of misdirected vigilance.
Advertising copy touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children promising relief for fevers worms and general ailment with claims of long use by mothers and a free sample offer. It directs readers to Le Roy New York for address and purchasing details.
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