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Newspaper

Shiner Gazette

Location

Shiner, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1920

Page

3

Danderine Ad Uses Hair Health Claims

An advertisement touts Danderine as a hair product offering new life vigor brightness and thicker hair after applying Panderine. It paints women as heartless if artless.

Freckles vanish with Othine double strength promise

An advertisement touts Othine double strength for removing freckles with one ounce usually enough. It guarantees money back if it fails to remove freckles. Also mentions Dr. Peerys Dead Shot for worms and a quip about nervous men and lawyers.

Net and Organdie Frocks for Graduation Attire

Graduation dresses favor net and organdie with smart mixes of gingham and organdie. Describes patterns with lace edgings, tuck bands, and upstanding waists. advises shrinking wet before sewing as fabric may shrink when washed.

One-Piece Street Frocks Gain In Fashion Day

Describes the vogue for one-piece frocks in wool tricolette or silk as practical yet stylish street wear. Notes devious fastenings and numerous buttons, two pictured designs with jabot and girdle details, and a left dress with wide hip plaits and satin trim paired with a satin hat.

Tricotine Learns She Is the Bride of Algy

Georgette and Tricotine exchange jests about a wedding rumor. Tricotine reveals she is the actual fiancée, confirming the joke and the engagement. The scene captures light chat about a forthcoming marriage and social chatter.

Allen's Foot Ease Relief Advertisement

An advertisement for Allen's Foot Ease antiseptic powder promises instant relief for tired aching swollen and tender feet. The copy urges shaking it into shoes or sprinkling in the foot bath and notes it is sold everywhere with a warning not to accept substitutes.

Allen

Modern Poetry of Motion Inspires An Amy Lowell Quip

A romantic scene unfolds as an orchestra plays Kiss Me Again. She compliments his dancing like a poem and notes their feet are mixed up. He smiles and urges her to continue in a playful exchange drawn from a poet’s name.

Amy Lowell

Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root

For years druggists note Dr Kilmer Swamp Root’s strong record as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It is a physician’s prescription medicine that supports organ function and has many friends. Sample bottle offer included with ten cent request to Dr Kilmer Co.

Kilmer Dr. Kilmer & Co Binghamton, N. Y

Concluding the Ceremony

The Justice of the Peace asks the groom if he takes the bride as wife and pronounces them man and wife. The judge jokes that the couple asked for this and warns not to blame him later.

Justice of the Peace

Eye Doze and Night Watch Sermon Parody

A fragmentary wartime style note mocks a night routine to relieve tired eyes and watery strain. It also includes clipped exchanges about a sergeant and a nervous recruit with lines about arrows and shoulders. The readable text mixes slang and military cadence in a humorous mood.

France Fixes Bachelor Age At Thirty Years

France to set 30 as the age at which an unmarried man becomes liable to a bachelor tax of 10 percent. The finance committee of the chamber of deputies plans to implement the tax by June 1. The move is said to have accelerated many marriages over the Easter holidays.

France Finance Committee Chamber of Deputies

Dying Compared to Changing Habits by Sir Oliver Lodge

Sir Oliver Lodge says death is as hard as discarding old habits, likening dying to shedding an old suit of clothes. The Boston Transcript attributes the remark to his philosophy on mortality and personal change.

Oliver Lodge Boston Transcript

Phrase on the Telephony Mix Up Sparks Recollection

A reader quotes a joking remark about a past telephone affair blaming the operator for a delayed or awkward moment. The exchange hints at social norms and humor around early telephone service without naming individuals or places.

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