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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
8
A lawyer and witness joke about misheard phrases as they discuss distances. The ad touts Nurdock Blood Bitters claiming to strengthen stomach liver and bowels and purify the blood, urging readers to use it for health.
The article surveys global laundry customs from Swiss community tubs with glacier water to German stream lines, French Seine bateaux to Italian roadside dress and public tubs, Norwegian ironing with weighted rollers, Indian village pools, Haitian aid shipments of washers, and British public wash-houses, noting ritual cleanliness and regional methods.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions sapman dweilings on the Me river Chita covered with fags nine family belongings reportedly Upped in dirty streams.
An older man shares a quirked tale about courting, letters, and a playful ruse with a newspaper cutting. The nephew, unsettled, debates gift and its effect, while the uncle narrates how a simple prank using cut paragraphs nearly steered a homecoming. A dry humor scene ends with a plan to tear the paper.
Miss Mary Ellen Duke testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured years of kidney pain and dizzy spells. She describes backache headaches and irregular urine as signs of weak kidneys and urges neighbors to ask for the same remedy priced 60 cents at drug stores. Foster Milburn Co. packaged in Buffalo New York.
The record highlights ten results since prohibition began, noting the liquor trade as outlaw and those selling it prosecuted as enemies of country, with a government stance shift described as a sign of major importance. The passage also briefly advertises Dean's Regulets as a remedy after meals.
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