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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
15
Miss Kelly of 476 South 14th Street Newark reports a three year battle with nervous breakdown and weakness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with addressing the root cause, restoring health, ending headaches and nervousness, and enabling a return to work.
A reader asks for a book or pamphlet detailing a logical order to teach eight and six year olds indoor games from lotto to chess. The Survey reprints the query and suggests starting with bridge and chess before progressing to games like lotto halma and tiddledywinks.
A child reads a Mother Hubbard book beside Emilie as a visitor of similar age listens. The narrator notes the line about the cupboard being bare and the child reassures her playmate that the word bare will not frighten.
A fashion writer notes the growing parity between afternoon and evening dress in the United States influenced by France. The piece traces women’s shift from tailored suits to one piece frocks and lighter coats, driven by economy, practicality, and European styles shaping daily attire through the 1910s.
The South selects nature colors for camouflage including pine green, cyclamen red, hibiscus pink, grapefruit yellow, coconut brown, and sand shades. This palette emphasizes leafy greens and earthy tones to blend with landscapes.
A collection of quirky newspaper snippets includes a banter on a title guaranty firm and rates for dukes, a health pitch about tea as a laxative, and a humorous anecdote where a red-haired girl expresses shock at two sisters polishing a car without a man present.
Mothers urged to examine each bottle of Castoria the well known infant remedy to ensure it bears the senate code in use for over three decades and to note that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria as in the familiar advertising refrain
A Chicago Tribune fragment recalls a convention visit by a bishop who opposed card playing and dancing yet charmed a child named Bobby. The bishop asked how many days are in a week and how many weeks in a year. Bobby answered fifty two. The exchange notes the bishop’s effort to test the boy’s knowledge.
An advertisement touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as the only reliable remedy for backache promising relief tomorrow. It cites a 1696 Dutch charter and links sturdy Dutch households to the product. Boxes are sealed and sold by druggists with money-back assurance. Also notes American apples and wheat production data from 1917.
In a humorous exchange a city niece and country uncle debate a folding bed. Country uncle recalls Tl camp outs on the floor and his difficulty sleeping standing up, while the niece exclaims about the unfamiliar object.
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