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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
6
A young wife longs for an expensive hat she cannot buy. Her husband Tom, buoyed by two new apartment contracts, savors a hopeful talk moment. A cook walking home in the hat foils their chance to own it.
A whimsical list of tongue twisters includes lines like A glowing gleam growing green and The black breeze blighted the bright plossoms Flesh of freshly flying fish and Six thick thistle sticks Two toads tried to trot to Tedbury Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig swhip.
A banker’s son asks for a large sum beyond his allowance to begin saving. The father scolds his spendthrift son, who admits he cannot save a cent until the father gifts a thousand. He promises to start economizing once given the money.
A witty exchange in the New York World defines a rube as a forty one hour, 95 dollar weekly laborer who expects farmers to sell him food cheap. The dialogue uses humorous banter between Cy and Hiram to lampoon stereotypes of laborers and rural life.
Fashion writers note a shift as extreme models fade, English sateens and voile dominate summer dresses, and lace embroidery surges. Designers create playful sateen dresses for little girls with smocked patterns, organdie collars, and net accents while high priced laces from England and France strain to meet demand.
An advertisement claims you can remove hard or soft corns and calluses between the toes and on the soles with Freezone. A tiny bottle costs little at drug stores and, with a few drops, stops pain and makes the corn or callous lift out root and all without pain.
A WWI era vignette describes a submarine attack as sea and deck roll. Destroyers drop depth bombs while Yankee troops stand in silence before a weary soldier offers a watch and chain for sale to passersby.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a safe overnight remedy for bilious symptoms. It warns of torpid liver and sluggish bowels causing indigestion and bad tastes. The copy promises a thorough cleansing by morning without the discomfort of Calomel or laxatives.
Brief exchange recounts a line about being intrigued by a film photoplay and bragging of a near-miss with a movie star in a sport car in Los Angeles. The Birmingham Age Herald quotes the humorous dialogue illustrating a fan’s fanciful personal connection.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Statement sworn December 6, 1886 before A. W. Gleason Notary Public. The medicine is taken internally and works through the blood to mucous surfaces.
A playful note explains why Daniel escaped the lion by smiling that it was glad not to have Mrs. Lion using his den as a sewing room. The excerpt ends with an advertisement claiming Dr Peery's Dead Shot expels worms clears mucus and tones digestion with one dose.
A brief quip prompts a pun about building a skeleton structure. The exchange suggests high costs in a light, humorous tone.
A mother asks if signs of genius are visible while the professor replies that he is not a detective in this fragment of a dialogue. The exchange centers on the clash between expectation and role.
An advertisement claims Milks Emulsion rebuilt health for a patient with a severe cough, night sweats, and bowel catarrh after climate treatment and hospitalization. The copy extols benefits, palatability, bowel action restoration, appetite boost, and a money back guarantee with prices 60c and 1.20.
A witty exchange features a bluffing bachelor asking a son about skating. The boy replies he can skate only two ways, standing up and sitting down, delivering a quaint family jest.
The advertisement recalls Bayer introducing Aspirin over eighteen years ago and promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross. It lists conditions relieved from rheumatism to headaches and neuralgia and notes availability in 12 tablet tins at low cost with directions in each package.
Along the Pacific coast three common gulls are described the glaucous winged western and California gulls not found in the east. They are white headed and not strikingly different from the herring gull, according to A A Allen.
Advert says Cuticura Talcum completes the trio with Soap and Ointment. It’s an exquisitely scented face skin baby and dusting powder and perfume available at 25c each everywhere.
Observers describe a woman's abrupt farewell as unusually hurried prompting commentary on etiquette. The remark circulated in social circles highlighting how brief departures can signal strong urgency.
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