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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
2
A collage of household tips touts lemon juice for freckles and white cosmetic toners. Interwoven are fragmented social snippets about Mrs Cindder, Mr Guitder, private sanitariums, farming for young women in England, and a herbal remedy claim with Dr Poory’s strawberry-marked bottle cited.
Milwaukee residents used conservation funds to buy red horse suckers at five cents a pound shipped from Shell Lake. In El Paso Texas the body of Thomas Lyons a Silver City cattleman was found robbed with a crushed head after arriving from Deming New Mexico. Lyons had come from Rochester New York.
A visitor asks what is happening in town and a seasoned local notes a ten foot kiss scene being shown at a movie house, while a quip about credibility follows. The exchange spotlights nightlife and theater interest in the area.
This lesson discusses Jesus in Gethsemane and Judas betrayal, the arrest scene, and Peter’s progression from sleep to denial. It notes the caution for readers to avoid worldly compromise and how a single look from Jesus sparked Peter’s remembered failure.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable alternative to calomel for cleansing the liver and bowels. It warns calomel can cause sickness, bone necrosis, and salivation, claiming Dodson's Tone leaves users feeling energetic with regular bowels.
Fragmentary OCR describes food control in London with bans on certain meats and items. It notes a list of permitted goods and references station shifts and a debate over farm produce and gardening plans amid wartime austerity.
Farmers and workers rely on Allen's Foot Base to prevent tired, blistered feet. The powder is shaken into door prinks and sprinkled in baths to increase efficiency and comfort, with women noted as frequent users.
The fragment discusses backyard farming for home use and neighborly considerations. It mentions someone named Tommie who faces a swallowing problem, with a doctor and a child named Jermine cited in a troubling anecdote about spelling and a stuck item.
A scattered dialogue fragment shows Eve and others debating a plan near a tent. One speaker accuses another of being wrong about a sixth person, while the others are not named. The scene hints at conflict and miscommunication amid a tense gathering.
Fragmentary ad style text touts Groves Tasteless Tonic claiming malaria relief and iron benefits. The piece wanders to quotes about Pubcon and a Punchline style joke about marriage, ending with a judge remark on male savings and celebration.
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