California Syrup of Figs Ad and a Homesick Dog Tale
An oldadvertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe fruit laxative for children and adults, promising quick relief from stomach and bowel issues. The piece also reports a Greencastle Indiana teacher Bob Jones with a highly intelligent collie that unexpectedly travels from Greencastle to Mooresville to reunite with him, baffling relatives.
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California
Cimegist
California Fig Syrup Company
Adv
Bob
FM. Jones
Greencastle
Lnd
Jones
Mooresville
Tab
Gilles
Moorsewile
Tet terine Ad Promises Clear Skin For Women
An advertisement touts Tet terine as a cure for facial skin eruptions including pimples blotches and eczema. It claims quick results with regular use and sells for 50 cents by Rhuptrine Co Savannah GA. The note appears amid miscellaneous quotes and promotional content.
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Rhuptrine Co
Savannah
Harvesttime in Tuscany and a battlefront vision
A Tuscan hillside harvest unfolds with terraced vineyards and a Tonino farm feast after a long day of grape gathering. The narrator recalls soldiers on leave, a quiet reverence for labor, and an eerie contrast as night falls, followed by a grim wartime reflection on a shattered town, trenches, and shells dotting the landscape.
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Tuscany
W York Evening Post
Padere Pan
Italy
Tonino
Cata Colonica
Afb
Corey
Flor
Market to market in town bee keeping gains noted
The article extols beekeeping as a growing source of income for both men and women. It discusses honey as a sugar substitute, its nutritional value, and provides several period recipes using honey. It highlights the sugar shortage and promotes outdoor beekeeping as healthful recreation with practical kitchen uses for honey and related confections.
Burning Sands in Canada North of Edmonton
Feature on tar sands or burning sands in the Great Athabaska country 250 miles north of Edmonton Alberta. Describes crude oil by products including petroleum naphtha illuminating oil lubricating oil paraffin and deoxine derivatives. Notes vast surface deposits and navigable Athabaska River.
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Athabaska
Edmonton
Alberta
Northland
Getting Rich Quick Wholesale Merchant Promise
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt quotes a merchant offering a boy a chance to learn the business with no salary in the first year. The father asks what the second year will yield and the merchant replies that if faithful, he will double the first year’s pay.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Wind Harmattan Scorches Interior Africa Journey
A dry hot wind named harmattan blows from Africa's interior toward the Atlantic in December to February. It withers plants grains and leaves as if scorched by furnace heat. The text notes there are scarcely more than 100 seed engravers worldwide.
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Pieren
Africa
Atlantic
Rules on wearing Boy Scout uniforms in wartime era
The Boy Scouts of America permits worn uniforms for registered boys twelve or older and all adult officials in good standing at meetings hikes camps and official duties. During war all scouts should wear uniforms when practicable unless soliciting funds or engaging in political or stage activities or selling campaigns. A lapsed scout may not wear the uniform.
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Boy Scouts of America
Wny
Boy Scout
National Council
Associate Scouts
Pioneer Scouts
Veteran Scouts
Boy Scouts
Elvic
Ang
Scout
Tom Sawyer A Good Scout Sea Scout Delegation Praise
The article praises Sea Scouts of America and their British counterparts. It notes General Baden’s warmly received greeting to new sea scouts and highlights inland waterways as valuable practice grounds. It cites Mark Twain and James A. Wilder’s programs and foresees a boom in sea scouting with boys gaining useful service for country, reflecting wartime spirit.
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Sea Scouts of America
Great Britain
Baden
United States
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
James A. Wilder
Britain
Russian Scouts Send Cable to American Boy Scouts
A cable received by the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in New York reports greetings from the First Archangel Boy Scouts union in Archangel Russia. The note suggests that German forces in Poland and Bolshevik rule in Russia have discouraged scouting activity.
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Russia
Boy Scouts of America
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Archangel
First
Archangel Boy Scouts Union
Poland
Boy Scout
Boy Scout Brotherhood
The Motto of One Scout in New Brunswick
A New Brunswick scout highlights the twelve points of the Scout Laws. The piece notes traits such as TRUSTY LOYAL HELPFUL FRIENDLY COURTEOUS OBEDIENT CHEERFUL THRIFTY BRAVE CLEAN and REVERENT, with emphasis on father’s role after rabbits.
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New Brunswick, N. J
Thas
Tommy
Scouts Aid Hospitals In New Bedford Influenza Effort
Spanish influenza struck New Bedford and Fairhaven with sudden severity. Emergency medical relief called on boy scouts to staff eight city hospitals and three in Fairhaven, with six scout troops serving as hospitals. Twelve scouts per day staffed each hospital across three four hour shifts, while others aided relief committees, transportation, and hospital staff, delivering supplies and assisting patients.
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New Bedford
Mass
Board of Health
Pitts
Hones
Too Easy New Wed Explaining Poker And Bluffing
An illustrated collage of quips and dialogue sketches touches on poker bluffing theory, social misfires, and light banter. Characters discuss games, poetry, vaudeville, and street life, with wry commentary on manners and modern urban routines.
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Mia
John
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
An ad touts Pape's Diapepsin as instant relief for upset stomachs with undigested food, belching, gas, acids, and sourness. It claims rapid action and low cost at drug stores, alongside unrelated quotes from Birmingham Age-Herald and a comic exchange about telephone etiquette.
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Pape
Best Medicine for Women Promoted by Pinkham’s Remedy
Mrs Lana Shaw of Portsmouth Ohio endorses Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for women’s ailments after suffering from pains and side issues. The note urges other women to try the root herb remedy and seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts, citing forty years of experience.
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E. Pinkham
Lana Shaw
R. No. 1
Portsmouth
Ohio
Lydis E. Pinkham
Lydis E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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St Hubbard
Boston Evening Transcript
Rheu
Coor
St. Louis
American Red Cross
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Marwell
Beacon Street
Major X
Statehouse
Weill
Boston Transcript
Miss Ketcham
Miss Blunt
Miss Passay
Auteur
Gwendolyn
Maude
Maymle
Gadspur
Wilhelm
Holland
Birmingham Age-Herald
Mui
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jox
NYT
Des. Ball
American Ele Print Co., Inc
Atak Sevew
York City
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