Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advocated by Mrs Cummins
Mrs Mirorp T Cummins of Penns Grove, New Jersey lauds Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for treating inflammation irregularities and other female weaknesses. She reports improved health after use and recommends the remedy to others facing displacements ulceration backache and nervous symptoms.
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Bridgeton
N.J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mirorp T. Cummings
Harmony St
Penn’s Grove
Silvery Belle and Practical Pauline Clash Over a Bell
The dialogue features Sentimental Sammie praising a silvery bell while Practical Pauline retorts with a sharp question about using a bell. The exchange highlights contrasting personalities through a playful, suggestive banter about ringing the bell.
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Sammie
Pauline
Self-Questioning Wartime Resolve
A wife questions urging her husband to war and recognizes the hardship of separation yet accepts the sacrifice as a necessary part of duty. The dialogue hints at resilience and personal resolve within a wartime context.
Red Ball White Clothes Ad Promises Bright Results
Grocers advertise Red Ball Blue to whiten white fabrics. In bold claim the ad says the product makes whites whiter and markets itself as a household staple.
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Grocers
Adv
The Proof of It Concert Attendees Warned
A satirical quip notes that concert programs are cluttered with barbarolles. The remark suggests sponsors and organizers face chaotic schedules and audience confusion over time and content.
The Best Teacher Is Time to Bring Wrinkles
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts learning from age with time shaping understanding. One speaker claims experience educates, while the other notes that time brings many wrinkles.
Pencil origins born in Elizabethan England
The first lead pencil or graphite pencil originated in England during Queen Elizabeth I's reign. Women are rapidly taking jobs once held by men in the printing industry.
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England
Elizabeth
Finding Her Job Finding Her Job Sn
Ann Hubbel, a resolute thirty-something, seeks meaningful work beyond dishwashing and sewing. She persuades shopkeepers to let her design windows, discovers talent in color harmony, earns steady pay, and grows into a sought after window dresser, eyeing a potential partnership while enjoying financial independence.
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Ann Hubbel
Ann
Mrs. Sweet
Franklin Budd
Budd
New Volcano Found Near Ragang Mountains in the Philippines
An exploring party added a new volcano to maps at the base of the Ragang mountains. The three peaked summit hosts a crater, with evidence suggesting a past explosion and a fourth peak once standing. The area shows scorched trees and a thin crust of lava with venting steam, but no active lava.
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Philippine Islands
Constabulary
Ragang Mountains
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Benefit to Business from Advertising and Bulk Purchasing
The merchant who does the most business buys the most goods and gets them cheaper. Advertising helps the public as jobbers and manufacturers ship in bigger quantities to bulk buyers, speeding payments and reducing costs. This allows the big buyer to obtain lower prices and quicker turnover.
Fertilizer boosts season garden yields on Illinois prairie plot
A farmer recounts using a commercial fertilizer on a once slough bottom in Illinois now used as a vegetable garden. He notes strong responses from lettuce onions peas and squash while comparing unfertilized rows. He advocates continued use of well rotted manure when possible and steady cultivation.
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Illinois
Storing Manure for the Garden
A guide to storing garden manure in a lid covered box or screened bin to deter flies. Keep the heap moist by spading, drain water to a sunken barrel, and rotate the pile monthly to promote decay. Place boxes at the garden’s edge and plant vines to hide the setup.
Flowers in the Home by Lima R Rose
Practical advice on indoor gardening by Lima R. Rose. Tips cover avoiding gas exposure, potting lilies and carnations, moist atmosphere for ferns, choosing rooted slips, hanging baskets, ivy geraniums, and early growth expectations for a first year plant set.
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Lima R. Rose
Sunflower for Poultry Becomes Common Farm Crop
On many poultry farms sunflower has become an established crop as seeds are highly valued as an excellent and cheap feed for all poultry classes.
More Expensive Trimming
A playful exchange mocks hat trimming costs with a line about gambling. Mrs. Hal Rockefeller jokes that a hat trim costs 36 dollars while implying men pay more for a poker game, highlighting contemporary extravagant spending.
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Halefeller
Soja Beans and Alice Pork and Beans Ad
A vintage style ad extols Soja Beans as good when prepared properly and promotes Alice Pork and Beans as prepared to suit your taste. The message emphasizes enjoying meals with these bean products.
Rat as a disease carrier and economic menace
The article notes yellow fever and malaria mosquito vectors, typhus from body lice, and other insects as carriers. It highlights the house rat as the deadliest disease carrier and major destroyer of food and property, responsible for numerous deaths via the bubonic plague.
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E. W. Nelson
National Geographic Magazine
Menthol Trade From Japan Shifts Amid War Demand
Before the war about half the menthol crystals exported from Japan went to Germany. Since the war began the United States has become the largest purchaser, followed by Great Britain, France, and British India. Prices ranged from $2 to $2.50 a pound over the past five years, staying near the high end. Improvements in production have kept prices reasonable despite rising demand since the war started.
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Japan
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
British India
Bullseye Flattery Misses as Shots Fall Short
A sharpened note on target practice, noting that flattering talk fails when others overshoot the mark. The piece contrasts praise with precise aim and calls attention to the risk of overreaching in scoring or rhetoric.
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Lydia
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Dean
Ellen Janis
N. Third St
St. Charles
Janis
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N
Nadoor
Ind Boards of Health
Rowe Sanitary Mfg. CO
6Th St
Gerroit
Mich
Parker
Gata
DELL
Hig Rapids
Michig
W. G. Chapman
Flack
Joe
DR. R. Schiffmann
R. Schiffmann Co
St. Paul, Minn
Hunt
A.B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman Tex
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