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Shiner Gazette

Location

Shiner, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1941

Page

2

Slimming by Calorie Limits Promises Quick Weight Loss

A feature touts reducing daily intake to about 1200 calories for a stout woman, claiming loss of up to 24 pounds in three months and a younger feeling while eating as much as ever. It promotes a 32 page booklet with 42 menus and a calorie chart, offering to send an order form.

Reader Home Service Promises Youthful Figure Guide

An advertisement from Reader Home Service at 635 Sixth Ave New York offers a copy of The New Way to a Youthful Figure for ten cents enclosed with the request. The small promotional note urges readers to mail in for a guide to fitness and youthful appearance.

Reader-Home Sixth Ave New York City

Masonry by Wire Demonstrates Electric Cornerstone

Colliers reports a ceremonial setup where a surrogate stone laid in an exhibition hall triggers the real cornerstone ceremony miles away via electric synchronization. In London a later event saw 10,000 Masons observe a dignitary perform the ritual, linked to a hospital site.

Colliers London

Even Court Ruling Couldn't Make Absent Plaintiff Talk

A cross examiner pressed a witness for what the complainant said, but the witness answered that the plaintiff was not at home. The barrister and opposing counsel debated admissibility for about half an hour, with the court eventually ruling the question proper. The witness clarified the plaintiff was not present.

Agents sought for Karno Massagine Liniment

Advertising blurb seeking agents for Karno Massagine Rule Penetrating Liniment marketed as a safe efficient antiseptic for cuts stiffness and soreness including athlete's foot. Listed address 206 St Charles Street New Orleans Louisiana.

St. Charles St New Orleans

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