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Newspaper
Salem Times Register And Sentinel
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
2
An Iceland census note contrasts a domestic scene with a child overhearing a quarrel about tyranny. The breakfast exchange reveals a couple’s misbehavior as “make believe” and a pledge to never repeat it. The scene ends with reconciliation and a gentler family moment.
Fragmented OCR prose shows a quip about starting sales with a closing out sale after a patient touts a cure. It cites Dr Kings New Life as a preferred remedy prior to a final joke about beginning advertising. The text mentions Ingleside North Carolina and W T Youngs store.
Boston June 15. President G Stanley Hall of Clark University told the College of Physicians and Surgeons graduates that women have two or more souls. He said this explains their fickleness and their erratic methods of jumping to conclusions and intuition. He asserted women are more susceptible than men and that one soul may be in ascendancy, making two souls absolute strangers yet existing in the same person.
Salem resident Charles A. Butler testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his kidney trouble after years of backache and lameness from labor. He praises relief and urges others with kidney disorders to try the remedy. Sold by dealers. Foster Milburn Co. agents in the United States. Remember the name Donn's and take no other.
A montage of quips questions and jokes from various papers. Remarks critique campaign money disclosure and politicians. A Georgia joke foresees June watermelons easing political memory. A schoolgirl’s rubber eraser incident at Ann Arbor is noted and a pun about imagination and sunburn appears. An ad for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil claims cheap accident relief available at all druggists.
A westward visitor seeks President Roosevelt for an affliction described as meddlesome under currents. The Norfolk Virginian jokes that the president suffers from chronic meddlesomeness and cannot or will not cure himself.
Relief in six hours claims a remedy for distressing kidney and bladder disease with sudden pain relief and diuresis. Cited as effective for both men and women, it asserts rapid water retention relief and urges purchase from W. B. Dillard Drug Co in Salem Virginia dated 2 22 08.
A humorous exchange about employment contrasts plain speech with grand wording. Plodding Pete tells a lady that hard work cannot be made inviting by using three syllable words, reflecting a folksy, mid century tone in the Washington Star.
A middle aged man in the New York Sun describes broad social progress. He cites improved living conditions, greater leisure and culture, and says women show advanced development, with many pretty, tall girls and more children wearing spectacles. He notes boys gain speed in sports, and predicts the nation will host the finest people and families in the future.
A Houston Post exchange notes a doctor warning against brain fever from dwelling on society functions and dresses. Mrs Roosevelt is cited as not in danger, prompting a quip that the speaker does more brain work than the President’s wife, while another voice says the difference lies in brain quality.
A recipe suggests peeling five bananas and mashing with sugar, folding in whipped cream, then dissolving a ten cent Lemon Jell-O in tea cups of water. The mixture is poured into a mold, chilled, and garnished with candied cherries or pudding sauce. Jell-O is sold by grocers at 10 cents per package.
In a period advertisement a patient asks if a lame back slows them. The copy touts Swamp-Root by Dr. Kilmer as a medicine sold at druggists with the Binghamton New York address on every bottle. It emphasizes a regular use and endorses its effectiveness.
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