Woman Seeks Dream of Home and Family Aid
A letter from Ellensburg Washington discusses marital strain and long for children. It cites Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a possible remedy and urges women facing social or medical obstacles to try the product based on decades of experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellensbury
Wasi
Arter
Johnson
Ellensburg
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Vermin Control Tips From A Food Safe Home
A vintage public health note warns that keeping food sealed in metal containers or ice boxes and cleaning up spills prevents ants and roaches. It emphasizes storing cake bread sugar meat and other foods away from living areas to curb infestation, and notes how roaches thrive on accessible food materials. The piece closes with a stray wartime aside about Americans in France and a lighthearted watermelon quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howsehold
Toney
Haarlem Oil Capsules Advert Attention Warning
An old fashioned health ad pushes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules claiming quick relief from backache fatigue and urinary issues with a money back guarantee. The piece then shifts to a rugged archaeologist anecdote about a Carchemish find and a dramatic inscription unearthed after a Colt revolver shot, ending with a celebratory greeting to Khalil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haarlem
Carchemish
Silas Marner
Euphrates
Khalil
Terled
Saxony Socialists Lose Members Amid War Service
A Dresden dispatch reports Saxony Socialist Party membership fell from 177 4 thousand in 1914 to about 23 thousand paying members, due to soldiers serving in the army and a split in Germany's socialist movement. Deputy Giddnauer spoke at a Saxon event noting wartime financial strains and political shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Party
Saxony
Dresden
Berliner Tageblatt
Socialist Party of Germany
Giddnauer
Bocrat
Auds
Austin Snoweepe
Germany
Large Producing Cows and Cooperative Bull Associations
Guidance on selecting purebred bulls from high producing lineages and using cooperative bull associations to extend access for small dairies. Emphasizes keeping bulls for daughters’ performance, avoiding premature culling, and rotating bulls to prevent inbreeding across five breeding blocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bull Association
Co-Operative Bull Association
United States
Bull Association i
Freckle Sunburn Remedy Promoted With Lemons and Orchard White
An advertisement touts a lemon juice mix with Orchard White to create a facial lotion that promises to reduce freckles sunburn tan and windburn. It claims the recipe is inexpensive and harmless and available at grocers and drug stores.
It’s Squarely Up to Dad in War Effort Tale
Ellis Parker Butler, living in Flushing, writes for Thrift and War Stamps campaigns. He is father to twin boys who boast their stamps after a Red Cross shift, prompting the question why he himself does not take more patriotic action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Parker Butler
Flushing
Mr. Butler
Red Cross
Gelting
Brother
Mrs. Butler
Composer Mixups With Queen Victoria At Windsor
A humorous anecdote recalls Queen Victoria testing Mascagni and confusing musical cues with Leoncavallo’s Prologue. The exchange ends with the queen singing a segment, while Mascagni listens and the pianist faced with a memory aid amid the Windsor castle recital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Cavalleria Rusticana
Windsor Castle
Mascagni
Leoncavallo
Crown Prince in Peril as Enemy Closes In
Reported dialogue shows Royal forces under pursuit. The enemy is said to be in contact with rear guards and within three weeks of reaching the location of the crown prince.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift & Company
Halibut Supply Questioned Amid Pacific Catch
An unnamed speaker laments uncertain plentiful halibut this season while noting four-fifths of the world’s supply is landed in Pacific Coast waters. The exchange hints at fishery pressures and market expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Love and Money Motives in Work Ethic
A sentiment contrasts duty with love urging excellence and beauty in effort. The quote notes money as a motivator for some to work, implying financial incentive shapes effort more than noble obligation.
Night guard posted at Reading City Hall to deter spies
Reading Pa posts a night guard around its city hall to prevent visit of supposed German spies. The article notes concerns about parental fault in children preferring elsewhere and a cautious citizenry worried about neighbors knowing too much.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
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Theo Abood
Lydia E. Pinkham
France
Caroline
W. F. Young
Terople Street
Springfield
Mass
Penwiggle
Micky Doolan
Huline
We & J
Salt Lake City
Dad
Tae
Queen Victoria
Eihtgrof
Gaid
Zareba
London
Re— Phillips Brooks
Fletcher
Wes
Fletcher’s
Castoria
Food Administration
U.S A
Eatonic
Bo. Eatonie Remedy Co
Wibsab Avenue
Chicaro
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