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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1920
Page
6
Joan declares she will work as a man to escape poverty and a nervous breakdown. Gael mocks her plans yet longs to guide her, while she studies phobia in a borrowed book and embraces a stubborn, intense love that could ruin them both.
A plain health statement urges high blood quality and sanitation to prevent flu and colds. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and vitality booster, with Hood's Pills as a cathartic if needed. The ad advises seeing a physician for prevailing illnesses and describes recovery benefits claimed from the tonic.
Rheumatism is a painful condition not restricted by age or rank. The piece advises eating less meat dressing warmly avoiding exposure and drinking plenty of pure water. It explains uric acid buildup due to damp cold conditions and promotes Rad Salts as a cure by stimulating kidneys.
An advertisement from A. De Bliss Co promotes Bliss Native Herbs Varlets for indigestion and constipation. It cites user testimonials from Lowenberg in DonnellsonTown and promises boxed doses of 200 for 1.00 and a smaller 50 cent size, sealed with a blue signature seal.
The Soldiers and Sailors Home lists daily bread output and pies for Sunday dinners and notes staff shortages. Updates include admissions and transfers, furloughs, and several deaths in hospital including James Pence, David Harper, Abihu A Stuart, Sherman Cook, Jacob Adams, Arthur Layson, and others with Civil War service and burial details.
In steel strike districts radical propaganda flourished in worker neighborhoods yet failed to steer the mass movement. Foreign born workers formed the core of strikers while Americans in mines and mills varied in support. Observations from Johns town and Gary show Reds and left wing ideas circulating without controlling strike action or mass sentiment.
An advertisement touts S S S as a purely vegetable blood cleanser and antidote for rheumatism catarrh sores ulcers and many blood disorders. It contrasts with mineral medicines and urges readers to obtain S S S at drug stores or write to the Medical Director in Atlanta Georgia.
The speaker outlines what union organizers call the first phase of the process following a decisive setback to unions. He aims to illuminate the industrial conditions that most influenced strikers during the strike, describing factors that weighed on their minds and opinions.
Nine year old Theresa Walsh playing with other children in New York streets was struck on the head by a large icicle falling from a roof. She collapsed unconscious, died an hour later at St. Vincent's Hospital. Doctors reported the skull was crushed.
Catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. Hearing loss may become permanent unless inflammation is reduced and the tube restored to normal function. Claim of cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio with circulars offered.
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