Peruna Endorsed For Stomach Cramps And Catarrh
A reader from Mona Missouri praises Peruna for stomach cramps and head catarrh and notes its use helped a sister with catarrh. Chicago source BK T Chomer commends Manalin laxative for liver and bowel indigestion. A joke about telephone etiquette and business chatter follows.
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Mra
Mary Fennell
R. B.D. Po- Mona
Missouri
BK. T. Chomer
East 42Nd Bt
Chicago
Ill
The Optimistic Papa and the Lit Help
In a light tale, the father answers his son during a reading of literature. The boy asks about holy orders after quoting Coleridge's graduation at twenty. The father, relaxed, guides him with patient humor as the discussion turns playful.
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Coleridge
MOTHER JOY BALVE Promoted For Colds And Croup
An advertisement style fragment touts MOTHER JOY BALVE as a remedy for colds coughs croup pneumonia asthma and head catarrh claiming quick relief if bought now. The text includes assorted quotes and stray jokes about cards and vacations, reflecting a puzzling pastiche of ad snippets and literary lines.
Corn Lifting Remedy Promises Painless Relief
An advertisement touts freexone as a painless corn and callus remover. It claims drops applied to any corn lift it out with fingers, leaves surrounding skin untouched, and promises cheap, immediate relief. Readers are urged to ask their druggist to stock freexone from wholesale houses.
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Cineinnati
Help to Save Nation s Food Supply Campaign Ad
A historical clipping urges use of all means to prevent food waste during high costs. It touts Stearns Paste as a rodent and pest killer and promotes rat proofing barns and homes. The noisy ad sits among jokes and local notices about civic life and manners.
Leaf mold and its value for soil conditioning
The text explains leaf mold as a key soil amendment, especially for heavy soils, aiding root formation in young plants. It emphasizes selecting beach and bark leaf sources, slower decay under shade, and careful preparation including turning and occasional watering, to avoid fungoid growths and ensure quality for azaleas, rhododendrons, and heath family plants.
Composting Dead Leaves Guide for Garden Use
The guide explains building a mid sized square compost heap with perpendicular aisles four to five feet high. Leaves can be mixed with stable, hen, or cow manure and shredded vegetables but diseased vines must be avoided. Heap should be sheltered, forked often, and formed into four to five heaps to rot leaves into months.
Lemon Lotion for Bright Skin Promoted in Ad
An old advertisement extols a lemon skin bleaching cream made by mixing two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint lotion. It claims to remove blemishes freckles sallowness and tan while softening smoothening and beautifying the skin with daily use on face neck arms and hands.
Praise for Swamp Root Medicine and Surfing Tide
Public notices praise Kilmer's Swamp Root with testimonials from Meigs Drug Store in Centerville and Kilmer & Co. inviting readers to prove its kidney and bladder benefits. The column also notes the surf coast activity from Hawaii to New York, describing a new surf board with an ebony end and its rise among American manufacturers.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Lange
Hawaii
California
New York
Exemption Tale From Virginia County Registrars
A damaged wartime-era fragment describes a Virginia county registrar encountering a strong, young Black man questioned about exemption from military service. The vignette notes repeated similar cases and hints at the applicant's vague, evasive responses during the inquiry.
Grove's Ol Standard Tonic Promises Broad Health Benefits
A wartime era tonic advert touts Grove's Ol Standard Tonic as a universal remedy. It claims to purify the liver, drive out malaria, enrich the blood, and strengthen the whole system, comparing favourably to Geo tonic while noting quinine content. The copy also ruminates on digestion, constipation, and general wellness myths.
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Grove
Cuticura Ointment and Soap for Clear Skin Care
Advertising fragment promotes Cuticura Ointment for blemish removal and Cuticura Soap for five minute washes. Promises clear skin with daily use and offers a free book by mail. Mentions Cuticura Dept Ly Boston and distribution to Georgia cities Atlanta and Anderson. Contains garbled lines about an interurban electric railway and observations on truthfulness.
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Cutteura
Dept. Ly Roston
Adv
Georgia Cities
Atlanta
Atverson
Little Alice Learns Punctuation In School
A child explains punctuation with playful examples, saying she learned to place a hatpin after Hark and a button hook after a question to punctuate. A separate note reports a New York inventor patenting a red signal to lock into position on a car to deter theft by an unfortuned person.
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Alice
New York
Ground Squirrels Across North America
Ground squirrels comprise over 50 species and races found throughout the United States and Canada, illustrating wide geographic diversity and adaptation across habitats. Studies highlight variation in size color and behavior among populations.
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United States
Canada
Mental Move Phrase Grabs Courier Journal Wit
The Loulaville Courier Journal hints at a humorous take on the saying when the "spirit moves" as a mental process. It notes the phrase's use in a quip about buying anew home with his wife. The column frames the idea as a playful domestic observation.
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Loulaville Courier-Journal
Lima woman credits Pinkham remedies for recovery
Mia Jennin Moyen of Lima Ohio testifies that after a severe breakdown she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She purchased six dollars worth, recovered in two months after three doctors failed to help, and she urges other women to try the products. She also offers to answer letters.
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Lima
Ohio
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Jennin Moyen
North St
Pinkham
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