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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
6
An advertisement promotes NR Tablets, a vegetable remedy claiming to ease bilious symptoms and digestive issues by harmonizing stomach and bowel function. The copy touts prompt, gentle action with minimal griping and disquiet, and notes pricing and branding details alongside a physician endorsement.
Arthur Guy Empey recounts going over the top in France with the British army after joining from Jersey City. He describes the bombardment, the bayonet clash with a tall Prussian, a shoulder wound, and his return to duty in six weeks.
A soldier recalls the plan to go over the top at four in the morning to seize the German frontline trench. The briefing details a wire-cutting party at eleven, artillery bombardment from two to four, and three waves advancing once the barrage ends. The account mentions Tomintes seeking sergeant approval before joining a machine team.
A suspenseful note hints that Empey joins a grim club as events unfold in a forthcoming installment. The teaser promises thrilling details and a cliffhanger ending with YO BE CONTINUED.
An old ad promotes lemon juice mixed with orchard white to create a skin whitening lotion. It claims to remove freckles tan sallowness redness and roughness while making skin smooth and white. The ad emphasizes harmlessness and impressive results.
A wry exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal contrasts Flubdub and his spouse. The narrator calls her an excellent manager for steering the breakfast routine and arranging meals, while others joke she is a poor manager.
For years druggists have noted Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician prescribed strengthening remedy that supports natural kidney and liver function. Sold by all druggists, request a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
A Louisville Courier-Journal humor item features a wife seeking money and a husband’s fuss prompting a quip about asking for a lot to force compromise. The brief joke contrasts a blunt approach with a lighter, wittier solution.
A collage of vintage medicinal ads promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a $100 reward for cures, Groves Tonic for blood purification, Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for stomach and bowel regulation, and generic advice about trust and pioneering.
The ad urges fatigued springtime readers to use Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery a blood purifier from Blood root Golden Seal and Stone root Queen's root and Oregon Grape root available as tablets or liquid. It also touts Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets made from May apple and aloe and lamp as a weekly cleansing purge sold by druggists.
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