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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1917
Page
7
An old newspaper ad style piece warns against calomel as a bile remedy and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative. It includes testimonials and a money back guarantee, mentioning liver health, digestion, and family use. Also notes quick pay roll device and a Hall's Catarrh Medicine offer with aviation trivia and local color.
An 19th century York Sun item notes Grove's Tasteless chill tonic praised for quinine and iron as a general tonic, claiming health benefits. A separate torpedo observation describes a vessel with corkscrew course, misfires, explosions, and fragment behavior near a submarine, space permitting uncertain details.
A Boy Scout ethic emphasizes cheerfulness as a daily duty from school to home. Training includes health, the oath’s third point, and the Beard prayer, with national HQ urging frequent troop inspections to ensure clean, properly worn uniforms and good hygiene.
Philadelphia reader recounts severe female trouble with cramps and irregular periods. After doctors urged operation, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound brought relief within days and she credits the remedy with restoring health. Mrs. Thomas McGonigal of 3432 Hartville Street endorses publication.
A vintage advert promotes Cuticura for itchy burning eczema pimples and other skin troubles with free samples by mail. Also mentions Aztec grain and Montezuma era uses in ancient times and Japan’s loan to Russia as part of East and West news.
A community drying plant in North Lincoln Nebraska uses a 16 by 2 by 34% foot cabinet with five compartments. Four compartments hold two stacks of ten drying trays each. Trays are numbered and recorded by the caretaker. A small fee covers operation and the caretaker salary. The plant keeper works two hours in the morning and about one hour in the afternoon. Patrons bring prepared produce and use on site facilities, including a few silent machines for those lacking them.
Mary Yeates argues sustained rest preserves mind and body for daily life. Atlanta offers free fundamental music training for youths over nine, run by St. Op's Cathedral under organist and choir master M. Phlip Sehitsch.
Five prominent citizens in Onaka were charged with inciting voters during the last general election. The Okaki court fined the debauchees of the franchise 100 yen each. The high court overturned the lower judgment but each man received two months in jail.
A humorous fragment shows a motorist misled on a country road by a pedestrian who offers to guide him as they ride. The tale ends with the driver realizing they went the wrong way. A separate vignette notes how teachers prize originality in English and arithmetic answers. The Real Thing finishes with a parent asking about the end of the world, and a remark on sympathy as a charitable gift.
The Dry Water reports a scene where several babies in a nursery act with clubroom attitudes. One gazes at the window and quips about “Dolly Dimple” and a “Pierce Murrow” device, while others mockingly compare toys and pretend brands.
A torn ad snippet pitches Mother’s Joy Salve as a cure for colds coughs croup asthma and head catarrh claiming immediate relief. The fragment also features chatter about a doctor in distress and a crude exchange on a crane life through a tangled dialogue with a blonde reference.
United States government launches a campaign to exterminate rats seen as a threat to lives and property. An estimated loss of food runs into hundreds of millions yearly, with Stearns Panta promoted as the preferred exterminator amid widespread advertising.
Scouts cut dead trees and distribute firewood to poor families in Linfield and Pas, locate mosquito breeding sites in Memphis, and combat tree pests at Glen Cove. The notes cite courtesy drives in Catasaqua and a Maynard Mass troop’s equipment purchases including a flag, drum, fife, bugle, boat, tent, camp gear, and cooking utensils.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble and attribute it to other causes. Kidney health affects other organs and can cause back pain headaches nervousness and despondency. Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physician prescription, restores kidney health and can be bought at drug stores in medium or large bottles. Send ten cents for a sample bottle and mention this paper.
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