Venice News remarks on local trade and crops in town
Captain V A Saunders tours Venice with Osprey's leading merchants and huckleberries ripen across patches. Harry Goole and wife visit to trade and show a baby. Melon shipments begin with Courtey and Curry earning 300 dollars cash. two more cars expected. Turtle sightings occur as scarcity and luxury mix with social and political commentaries on prohibition and honesty.
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Harry Goole
Alligator Creek
Messrs. Courtey and Curry
The Way of Business and Liver Health
A wartime style exhortation links vigor to business success and attributes many ailments to a misbehaving liver. It touts CARSWELL's Liver-Aid as a mild vegetable remedy replacing calomel, priced at 50 cents, with a money back offer at Walpole Pharmacy.
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Carswell
Walpole Pharmacy
BonY-TISh Antiseptic Anodyne Ad
Patent style remedy claims cure for rheumatism neuralgia headaches and more with internal and external use. Sold for 25 cents. Ships and druggist notices often accompany such items in 19th or early 20th century period ads.
Leonardi's Blood Elixir Promises New Life and Vitality
рекламный текст продает Leonardi's Blood Elixir как средство для повышения энергии, улучшения кровообращения и нервной устойчивости. Обещаны устранение малярийных паразитов и очищение крови, регуляция печени и почек, возвращение аппетита и силы. Продавец Badger Pharmacy предлагает деньги обратно при неудовлетворенности.
Brighten Red Tiles With Lemon Salt Rub
To renew red tiles rub with a lemon dipped in fine salt. Leave a few minutes then wash as usual. The tiles become a clear bright red and all stains are removed, making the effort worthwhile.
Poet Says He Leaves Platform On Tiptoe
The poet explains at the end of each poem he departs the platform on tiptoes. His friend replies that the action is thoughtful to avoid waking the audience. The exchange has a light, humorous tone.
New Lock Delays Jailhouse Opening In Local Town
Two vagrants were arrested for vagrancy but released by constable G Porter after the town jail lock rusted shut and could not be opened. The remark says the town may face a murder case before a new lock is bought.
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G. Porter
Porter
Youngstown
Liver-Aid Promises Gentle Relief Without Griping
A historical medical advert touts LIVER-AID as a vegetable liver remedy free from griping, offering quick relief for biliousness headaches constipation indigestion flatulence dyspepsia and other liver stomach and bowel disorders. It claims to replace calomel work with gentler action and guarantees satisfaction or money back.
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Leonardi
Badger Pharmacy
Life Sapped in Six Years Onboard Ship
A steamship agent condemns stokers deaths from extreme heat. He notes stokers endure 140 degree furnaces for eight hours daily, turning young workers into wrecks after about six years. He advocates oil fuel as the only real relief, lamenting deaths from stoker conditions.
Swift Charity Sermon Draws Large Gift in Dublin
The Detroit Free Press notes Jonathan Swift preached a charity sermon at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin to profit from earlier criticism. His text urged pity for the poor and the dean urged listeners to lend to the Lord with the line down with your dust as security. The brisk sermon reportedly elicited a notably large contribution.
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Swift
Jonathan Swift
St. Patrick’s
Dublin
Detroit Free Press
He Knew All About Oxygen Joke
A Kansas school teacher asked students to define oxygen. A young pupil replied that oxygen was one of the things used to drive before they got horses.
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Kansas
Free film development offer from Taylor's Drug Store Tampa
Free development and finishing of your films offered by Taylor's Drug Store in Tampa Florida. They claim An sco films give the best results and fit any camera and Kodak. Clients mail films to be developed free with charges only for prints.
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Ansco
Kodak
Taylor
Tampa
Lesser Evil Brings Stylish Wives to Mind
In a light remark from Briggs and Griggs quoted by the Boston Transcript, the speaker jokes about the constant challenge of keeping a wife dressed in the height of style, noting the trouble would be greater if she were not.
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Briggs
Griggs
Boston Transcript
Manolita Declines Kiss Over Viper Tongue Remark
The fragment quotes a masked exchange where Bianco y Negro cites a scolding from a grandfather about a man’s tongue being dangerous. The snippet hints at social tension and sharp humor in Madrid society.
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Manolita
Bianco Y Negro
Madrid
Apt Comparison at Wedding Catches Wit of Guests
Jones quips that a bridegroom counts little at his wedding. Smith counters he may be like a vice president, drawing a sharp, humorous exchange between two speakers.
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Jones
Smith
United States
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