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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
7
An advertisement claims Danderine cures dandruff and hair loss within minutes. It promises new fine hair in weeks and immediate scalp relief with a glossy, abundant look, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from any store to prove its effects.
The article notes newly patented small pockets for valuables to be fastened to shoe linings. Designers say Patrice calls them convenient and positioned high so users need not reach far.
A sharp exchange asks if there is any limit to submarine warfare. The reply states the limit is the submarine's periscope, while a separate note lists 223 licensed automobiles in the Panama Canal Zone.
In early spring, fashion confusion grows as dressmakers, importers, and Paris houses flood cities with new garments. The author argues women should plan a personal wardrobe campaign, resist tempting trends, and rely on self discipline to avoid costly, unsuitable purchases.
In the fashion world this spring rough textures dominate with rough straw braids toques and mushroom shapes. Sports wear features heavy rough silks tussore and crepes while wooly fabrics appear in sports suits with pebbled and basket weaves.
Letters from Mrs. O M Runes of Ridgway Pennsylvania and Mrs W E Lixesey of Tennille Georgia praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from long standing female ailments. Both women report restored health enabling them to resume housework and garden tasks and urge others to seek the medicine. The company offers confidential advice from a woman at its Lynn Massachusetts headquarters.
Maybelle used a lot of make up on her face. Now I shall call it make out. American gloves are in demand in Cuba. Emperor Charles of Austria is fond of horse racing.
An actress shares a simple gray hair remedy using Bay Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine mixed in water. Druggists can prepare it or individuals may mix at home. directions accompany Barbo Compound. The formula darkens faded gray hair without coloring the scalp, without stickiness, and without rubbing off. France exports to the United States in 1916 totaled $110,304,951.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claimed to ease feverishness headaches bad stomach teething disorders move bowels destroy worms and break up colds in 24 hours. Marketed as child friendly and used by mothers for 30 years with a free sample offer from Mother Gray Co Le Roy New York.
A hunch is defined as the masculine equivalent of feminine intuition. The term frames intuitive sense as a male oriented instinct.
The piece explains uric acid present in everyone and excess from heavy meat intake. It links kidney strain to buildup causing backache lumbago rheumatism gropsy and fatigue. It recommends Anuric three times daily as a kidney tonic and claims Dr. Pierce discovered it in Buffalo New York and that it dissolves uric acid better than lithia.
Advertises Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood cleanser tonic to treat scrofula lingering coughs bronchitis and weak lungs claiming it cures diseases through the blood. It urges regular cleansing with Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and compares the body to machinery needing proper maintenance.
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