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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1918
Page
3
A government official criticizes the German idea of a good soldier as someone who breaks rules. The passage contrasts brutal acts by German soldiers with a parable about a youth who boasts of saving money only after losing it in a poker game and refusing to pay.
An old advertisement asserts local catarrh cannot be cured by external applications and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as an internal treatment that purifies the blood and clears mucous membranes. It claims the product combines tonics and blood purifiers and offers testimonials.
A seller pressures a former employee to write a recommendation for a competing business. The ex-appointee admits discharging the rival for incompetency and agrees to help, revealing a scheme to cripple the competitor by securing a position via a favorable letter. The ad promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a gentle vegetable tonic.
A Birmingham Age-Herald item recalls a man dying while waiting for a meal, with the cause given as apoplexy. The discussion questions whether the tragedy was related to the price list or a medical event.
A fragmentary ad copy promotes May Apple Aloe and Jalap made Pleasant Pellets by Dr. Pierce’s for headaches indigestion and other ailments. The text is an old fashioned patent medicine style advertisement.
A damaged line from a historic page shows Sambo Johnsing scolding his son about mixing with white people. The boy replies that his father wasn’t white before a certain event. Context and full meaning are unclear due to the garbled OCR text.
Home demonstration agents run clinics where women bring old garments to be repaired and refashioned. The department of agriculture urges communities to adopt this cost saving practice amid the wartime economy, with Iowa campaigns noted as especially strong.
Older remedy note advises checking a child's tongue when ill and feverish and suggests giving California syrup of figs at once if bilious or constipated.
A vintage advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for babies and children. It emphasizes a tasty cure for constipation and various symptoms, warns against counterfeits, and instructs to ask druggists for the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Seijiro Kawashima argues in Dai Nippon for ending money use worldwide to end wealth inequality. He suggests nationalizing key industries and land, compensating private holders with transitional bonds, and replacing transactions with a ticket system that taxis time-limited notes, finally ushering a peaceful world.
An American infantry regiment and five artillery batteries halted German forces near Bouresches and Bois de Belleau after crossing from Metz toward Paris. General sentiment credits these actions with strengthening allied resolve and potential victory.
Sergeant-Major Flora Sandes, a Scottish woman, was severely wounded by over 50 fragments from a Bulgarian grenade and received a decoration. A Serbian girl, Mil uka Savie, has been wounded several times and awarded the gold medal for valor and made a Knight of the Trench Legion of Honor.
A small bottle labeled Danderine promises to keep hair thick and beautiful. The advertisement claims the product doubles hair beauty in a few moments aimed at girls.
An advertisement promises rapid removal of Gandruff and itching after applying Danderine. It asserts new hair will appear within weeks, starting as fine and downy, with hair becoming light and lustrous. The ad urges buying Snowston's Danderine at drug stores to restore beauty and softness.
A wartime scene depicts American mothers training sons to care for their teeth as Yankee soldiers move through rear areas at dawn. The description notes possessions abandoned in the rush and highlights three items the author elevates: the effle, the shovel, and the toothbrush.
For over two centuries Haarlem Oil is praised as a cure for kidney and bladder disorders and related aches. The ad promises relief from back pain headaches indigestion insomnia and urinary issues with Gold Medal Capsules imported from Holland laboratories and sold through drug stores with a money back guarantee.
The War Industries Board reduced fashion variety arguing diplomacy with Paris trimmed waste. Women’s wear simplified saving 25 percent wool. beds downsized from 300 to 30 sizes. auto tires cut from 287 to nine varieties. vacuum hoses saved 1,000,000 feet of fabric hose.
Mothers urged to inspect every Castoria bottle for the signature of its makers. The notice emphasizes the long history of Fletcher’s Castoria used for infants and children and reminds caregivers to seek the genuine product.
A captain returning from sea debates a farmer at a country inn about life and travel. The captain boasts world voyages and wonders while the farmer claims a navigational feat steering a ship to the United States with his mate, using a courtship as the voyage.
A short ad-style note promotes Dead Shot Dr Peery's Vermifuge as a remedy for intestinal worms, asserting it can be used to rid the body of worms and implying effectiveness.
An odd remark on appearance follows a quip about being “ironed.” The text hints at a humorous or sensational tone without clear context or names.
A brief exchange from the Boston Evening Transcript quotes a man saying no congenial work exists for him and responds with a wry line about the impossibility of congenial labor.
A fragmented exchange shows tension between thrift stamp supporters and war stamp advocates. The dialogue hints at skepticism about personal growth and commitment to war financing efforts.
Of the 650 tons of ivory brought annually into England, Sheffield consumes a third.
A medical briefing notes that about one in sixty men are wholly or partially color blind. The statistic underscores the reach of color vision deficiencies and the need for accessible design awareness.
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