Willing to Oblige Penrose and the social lure of marriage
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, a strict party man, faces a lighthearted push from a longtime supporter to marry so he can rise in Washington society. Penrose replies to let the organization pick a wife. Meanwhile jokes recount soldiers fleeing the first gunfire and a note on Ethel Barrymore tracing her famous stage family lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Boies
Washington
Ethel
Ethel Barrymore
Maurice Barrymore
Georgie Drew- Barrymore
John
Lionel Barrymore
Scho Drew
Castoria Ad Copy and Social Trial Fragments
The fragment mentions Castoria bottles with the signature Lettie In Use for Over Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria. It questions how Jim supports his wife with patience and resignation amid life’s trials. A line notes some girls enjoy resisting an attempt to kiss them.
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Lettie
Fletcher
Jims
Haarlem Oil Capsules for back pain and ill health
An advertisement warns that backaches and various symptoms signal kidney or bladder trouble and urges buying Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. It promises rapid relief within 24 hours, ongoing benefits with daily use, and money-back guaranteed genuine import.
Care for Colts in Winter in Stable Conditions
The United States Department of Agriculture warns horse owners that high prices for good stock push increased foal production. Newborn colts require careful winter care including disinfected, well ventilated stables, bright straw bedding, and early umbilical cord treatment with corrosive sublimate to prevent germ disease and ensure strong starts for the grass season.
Soybean Rations Boost Hog Growth in Trials Across States
USDA bulletin notes ground soybeans surpass wheat middlings by about 10 percent in fattening hogs and dairy gains. Indiana and Kansas tests show soybeans paired with cornmeal or kafir increasing gains and reducing feed per pound of gain, while Missouri results find soy bean meal, linseed meal, and tankage equally effective for young hog growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Indiana
Kansas
Missouri Station
Pneumonia in Swine Affects Fat Hogs in Cold
The notice explains that pneumonia is common in hogs, with fat hogs prone to the disease. Warm comfortable quarters followed by sudden cold exposure can inflame the respiratory tract and cause pneumonia, and overexertion of fat hogs is also a contributing factor.
That Still Small Voice in a Banquet Tale
Marence H Mackay spoke at a New York business banquet praising the telephone. A broker glimpsed a chance from his window and found a night that altered him. A scene unfolded with Miss Daisy Meade and a judge reacting to a telephone call as conversation turned humorous and tense.
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Marence H. Mackay
New York
Miike Daisy Meade
Jone Bangor
Wyer
Miss Daly
Satpecan Pape's Diapepsin Ad Claims Instant Stomach Relief
An advertisement touts Satpecan Pape's Diapepsin for instant relief from stomach acidity indigestion gas and heartburn. It promises rapid comfort after meals and low cost at drug stores. Also notes a dubious electric iron repair claim and a quote about repairing irons with new heating units.
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Pape
Shave With Cuticura Soap Ad Claim
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for doubling razor efficiency and promoting skin purity comfort and health. It claims no mug slimy soap germs waste or irritation even with twice daily shaves and states one soap serves shaving washing and shampooing.
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Adv
Fig Trees in San Joaquin Valley Plantings After War
Ten thousand acres of Smyrna fir trees have been planted in the central San Joaquin valley since the war began. A bank clerk notes the irony that money must be counted so often.
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San Joaquin
San Or Seagate Valley
Soldier Collects Washington Earth as Seed of Freedom
A Czech soldier at Mocot Vermin filled a small box with earth from Washington's tomb and planned to sprinkle it on Be hemis soil at home. The act is described as symbolic of the spread of American ideals, reflecting a broader cultural myth of liberty.
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Mocot
Washington
Behemis
Tseprinkind
Derk
Starr Jordan
Sunset Magazine
Recipe for gray hair box note
A fragment describes a small box of Bazbo glyconme with instructions to apply it up to a limit. The text shifts to a moral prompt urging effort to give the world our best rather than lingering on aging or self focus.
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Swift Company
Swift & Company
Packer
Federa Trade Commission
Congress
Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Haarlem
Peiver
Ann Richter
Merchants Heat and Light Company
Miss Richter
Imtian- Qpitis News
Iheve Wrigleys
Goody-Land
Wrigleys
Bae Ticht Wrigley
Pr Sitka
SPOHS
Vabys
Staifiont
Spohn Medical CO
Mfrs
Geshes
Tad
Eliewes
Mr Eats Pacoe
al Drag Seren
Salt Lake City
Buffalo
Lydia KE Pinkham
B. B. Zrennisxa
Weiss Street
Buffalo, N.Y
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