The Artful Fabulist Teases With Tall Tales
Aesop explains that people won’t engage with simple facts. To grab genuine attention, he suggests presenting a supposed whopper as a story rather than a plain truth.
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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1921
Page
7
Aesop explains that people won’t engage with simple facts. To grab genuine attention, he suggests presenting a supposed whopper as a story rather than a plain truth.
As in many years druggists note the record of Kilmer's Swamp-Root the kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician's prescription strengthens organs and aids nature. Buy from druggists on merit. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY. Include paper name.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription from Buffalo as a remedy for backache headache and anxious motherhood. It claims the medicine uses natural vegetable growths and offers trial packages at ten cents.
Frank J. Weber describes Maj. Gen. Harris announcing that men with no prior musical training may enlist to study music in the United States Army. Recruits train at Columbus depot to join army bands, with opportunities from instrument learning to advanced programs at the United States Army Music School and the Institute of Musical Art.
Brig Gen J Mel Carter outlines a dual path to military service via the Second division Indian Heads at Camp Travis and the National Guard. He notes Guard members gain training, pay, travel, and medical benefits while remaining employed locally, with drills and 15 days of annual camp enhancing readiness and protecting communities.
Scientists tout walnuts as a substantial food and strong meat substitute with high protein and fat. California walnuts drive an industry worth over 15 million dollars annually, stemming from British settlers who introduced English walnut cultivation.
A Jew in Russia was sentenced to twenty strokes with the knout. One man whipped while the other feigned distress to extract 20,000 roubles. The ruse worked for nineteen strokes, but the final blow was real. The victim ask why and received the blunt reply about the bargain.
An advertisement warns to look for the Bayer name on genuine Aspirin tablets for safe use across cold headaches and body pains with small twelve tablet tins and larger packages sold by druggists. It also includes a light punchline from an American Legion Weekly cartoon about buying an auto for a song and ending in the poorhouse.
Winter disease warning notes rheumatism arising from a tiny germ in the blood. It claims S S S blood remedy has long sold by druggists and that the germ is not reached by surface cures. The ad invites readers to mail a history for expert free advice from the Swift Laboratory.
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