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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
7
A vintage testimonial advert touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, plant based liver cleanse. It urges readers to ditch calomel due to toxicity and bone damage, claiming the product tomorrow leaves users feeling vigorous with headaches and dizziness gone.
An OCR stripped mix of veterinary products and public notices includes Colt Distemper treatment offers from Spohn Medical Co, a Goshen vendor, with prices 60 cents to $1 per bottle and larger lots. The text also contains anecdotes about volunteers, a teacher and student dialogue, and references to Wall's Catarrh Medicine and Hall's Catarrh Medicine, plus a vaudeville style joke about hash and a woman’s mind and a routine about Roman Eye Balm.
Sober tone claims life or death stakes from kidney issues and urges readers to try Anurie by V M Pierce Buffalo New York with a call to visit drugstores. It markets Anurie as a cure by asserting urinary relief, warns of kidney disease, and promotes trial packs and household testimonials alongside dubious medical rhetoric.
Milton Milton North Carolina resident praises Anurie Tablets for relief from uric acid and kidney derangement. He claims improved health after use and recommends the product to others suffering from related symptoms. He also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pellets as a simple laxative and cathartic remedy.
An article argues for concrete pavements as safer night surfaces. It states light colored, nonskid concrete reduces glare, aids visibility, and helps drivers stay on the road. Advocates claim concrete blends with surroundings while providing clear definition under motor traffic at night.
The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated February 8, 1910 under District of Columbia law and federally chartered June 16, 1916. It explains limits on using the terms scouts and boy scouts for commercial gain and notes Congress exempted service members from wearing uniforms, while permitting the BSA to use the prescribed uniform.
Instructions describe building a cheap road drag from planks to form a sled like frame. Two ten by two inch planks serve as runners on edge, with top cross planks to create a ten by six foot bed. Additional diagonal planks attach at specified offsets to enhance alignment and drag action.
Detroit Scouts assisted in traffic control during crowds, aided at the army and navy recruiting station, cleaned a Main Street corner lot, and organized an excursion day with a tent and hammock area. They cared for 20 patients, located eight missing items, and participated in six city patrols with an 88 percent success rate. They demonstrated first aid across two waves of mobile responses and two streetcar incidents, aided in eight city fires, aided at the Red Cross museum event, supported four city conventions, contributed 20 dollars to the Michigan Thirty-First troop comfort fund, and maintained family supplies for a bedbound father while providing annual Christmas baskets to the poor.
A detailed specification describes a drag device with a front opening 5 inches by 24 inches and a diagonal 2 by 12 plank brace across the top. It includes iron shoe fittings, rope attachments, and a stated performance claim that a tenable man can pull it on dirt roads with less effort than comparable drags.
Plans for the Midland trail from San Francisco to Washington D C propose a route via Salt Lake City St Louis Louisville Lexington Winchester Ashland Huntington Charleston Richmond to the capital with a map and list of traversed states and towns Officials urge expansion of the highway as a modern cross country roadway Also included are agricultural and farming notes on the peach tree borer buttermilk use mite powder the draft colt paddock and brood sow values
The article reports that suggestions to award military titles to Boy Scouts for war savings are neither approved by the Treasury nor in line with Boy Scouts of America leadership. It notes the BSA’s longstanding policy against regular military titles, despite federal charter status and Army-approved uniforms.
Scouts in Independence Missouri have devised a method to aid American troops by making gun wipers from old cloths. About 150 wipers are produced per batch and shipped to nearby camps. New York City opens a troop comprised of five year veteran scouts, each wearing the veteran scout pin to signify long service. The veteran idea spreads as scouts strive to live by the creed once a scout, always a scout.
About 140 Boy Scouts from Butte attended a Rotary Club picnic at the Nine Mile reservoir. A dress by Rotarline, a sport program, and refreshments were part of the event. Scouting activity included removing political posters from telephone poles as elections faded. The piece notes willow trees provide value for baskets and flood prevention through willow reinforcing banks along the Misatedpypt river.
A Moody era Sunday school lesson discusses Jesus selecting twelve helpers from his disciples to accompany him. It emphasizes preparation through prayer, sending them to preach, heal, and cast out demons, and notes their mission, testing, and growth as public heralds.
A physician called to a boy with tonsillitis earns praise from the mother while an elderly neighbor recalls harsh old remedies. Robby rode a laundry wagon and delivered to a woman, who praised the manly pride of the boy as he grew. The piece contrasts old punishments with modern restraint and social norms.
An old advertisement describes a home remedy for gray hair using water, Bay Rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine to darken and gloss hair without coloring scalp. It claims gradual effects, no smoke or grease, and non transfer. Additional stray lines reference a thief trial, fruit cake, nightmares, a poem, and laxative products.
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