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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
6
A vintage advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for dandruff and suggests using Cuticura Soap with hot water after treatment. It claims the emollients keep the scalp clean and promote hair growth and offers free samples by mail to Cuticura Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.
A party of engineers traveling through Kentucky's hill country dined at a farmer's home where the mother laments missing knives. A sharp child then identifies every utensil by name, shouting the set including Ele Butch Hite Butch Case Knife and Stub.
A speaker reports meeting a man who said his mind was occupied yesterday. Real estate men note many vacant spots in the city are filling up, signaling improving property activity.
A narrator labeled as pessimist rails against a writer claiming marriage is a lottery. The other replies with curiosity about why the claim holds, suggesting the idea of chance in life events and a shared skepticism.
The text notes that even with strong physique and daily diet, people frequently miss key minerals in their nutrition. It emphasizes gaps in mineral intake affecting brain and body function.
A French Alpine Chasseurs subaltern, named in U.S. papers as Lieutenant B-, 21, wins praise in division orders for a first battle near Alsace. He writes to his mother from the front, recounting near-heroic assault, artillery bombardment, and a perilous night trench, then dies in Alsace two months later after hospital treatment for frozen feet.
Sedalia Missouri Mrs J T Albertson receives a $600 check from San Francisco mining engineer Daniel C Jacklin who repaid kindness shown years ago when he was an orphan working on the Albertson farm. Jacklin, who later funded his education and became wealthy, offers to escort the Alberts on an eastern trip with earnings from mining ventures.
Tom Gun, an intrepid San Francisco aviator, traveled to China to teach aviation to Yuan Shih Kai's soldiers. He nearly lost his sight in Canton when his face was burned after water washings to scrub carbolic acid planted by enemies. He was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents.
Miss Ethel A. Wood returned 200 dollars to the New Brunswick education board for uncompleted instruction. News reached her cousin William B. French in Los Angeles, who had just died leaving her 76 000 dollars as a reward for her honesty.
Lafayette Indiana report says girl babies won all first prizes across classes at the city baby show. Boy babies earned two second and two third prizes, highlighting the girls as superior in the judged event.
A lesson on Acts 12 and Psalms 84 describes Peter’s imprisonment under Herod with sixteen guards and the church’s earnest prayers. An angel awakens Peter, releases him, and he goes to tell believers before slipping to safety as Herod’s plot collapses.
Des Moines Iowa woman Blanche Jefferson, once gravely ill for four years, says her husband objected to surgery and she recovered after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She recommends the remedy to other women. the company offers confidential medical advice.
A French inventor adapts a frog leg muscle to receive and record wireless signals. The device uses a stimulated limb as a sensor, suggesting early bioelectrical experimentation. The description mentions Jill and a question about kick absence, reflecting fragmented text.
Hanford's Balsam 8 guarantees to cure ailments and injuries reachable externally or money refunded by the dealer. Getting a bottle now is like taking out insurance, Ady.
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