A Ramshackle Visit to Mrs Ticer’s Farmhouse
The narrator and Dr. Pettit visit the Amazonsian Mrs. Ticer at her ramshackle dwelling where they exchange light banter about her husband Sam and their son Jerry. The narrator seeks information about Jake Wisley, records answers with Mrs. Ticer, then hurries to Southampton Hospital. A purse is left behind and the two cars nearly collide with Harry Underwood arriving.
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Samuel
Sam
Doc ‘Tor
Mrss Graham
Jerry
Thor
Jake Whlsey
Lillian
Dr. Pettit
Southampton Hospital
Harry Underwood
Secrets of Health and Happiness What Mother Ought to Do
Article offers practical home remedies for infant colic including tummy cooling baths, warmth, and patting the back. Advises against feeding during attacks, suggests gentle massage, warm water enema, peppermint in water, bicarbonate, and cautions against paregoric opium. Recommends consulting a physician for frequent or severe episodes.
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Colle
Answers to Health Questions From Dr. Hirshberg
Readers submit health questions about earache catarrh and weak heart. The doctor offers general guidance on ear irrigation with warm boracic acid water and cautions that catarrh names mask underlying conditions. He notes likely no heart trouble in the querent and invites general inquiries to be addressed to Dr. Hirshberg for readers of the paper.
Efficient Hair Care Tips From Early Beauty Guide
A historic strolling guide on hair care emphasizes cleanliness and biweekly shampooing, warns against oils on dry scalps, and prescribes a jelly soap mix. It recommends thorough finger rubbing, warm to cold rinses, sun drying, and careful brushing. Daily scalp massage aids circulation, reduces boldness, and restores natural oil.
The War Between Duty And Desire In Modern Morality
Winifred Black rails against the sensationalism of wartime domestic scandals and the new morality. She argues that forgiveness and taking in a lover’s child are not noble acts but reflections of human nature, offering blunt, unsentimental judgments on marriages, infidelity, and social hypocrisy.
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France
Methusalah
Advice to Girls Dear Annie Laurie
A 19 year old girl asks if parental disapproval over differing denominations justifies refusing a young suitor while her sister's partner is accepted. Polly and Annie Laurie stress uncovering hidden objections, warn against marrying for mere like, and invite letters for further feminine inquiries in the column.
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Annie Laurie
Tam
Fish as a thrifty kitchen staple and basic cooking guide
An article extols fish as cheaper, plentiful, and easy to cook compared with meat. It covers freshness, preparation, broiling, baking, sautéing, and boiling techniques, including butchered details on vinegar use, serving garnishes, and equipment like a fish boiler. It promotes frequent fish use for cost savings.
Words of Wise Men Teach Conduct Over Knowledge
A compact moral urging action over tears and study. It warns that wisdom is shown in conduct, counsel heeded, and steady guidance like a ship’s master directing courses, not by the voyage’s luck or fortune.
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Olly
Navy Blue and Flesh Sports Frock by Frances
Navy blue and flesh color crepe de chine sports frock designed for summer wear. Flesh colored crepe de chine trimmed in navy with flesh wool embroidery shows small tennis racket motifs. Peplum blouse is waist cinched, sailor collar and blue tie sash, cuffs and border embroidered, blue band on pleated skirt.
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Adele Garrison
Chance
Juanita Hamel
Leonard Keene Hirshberg
Johns Hopkins University
Mrs. William S.Q
Lucrezia Bori
Winifred Black
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Polly
Annie Laurie Twill
Miss Laurie
Halen
Siee
Mme, Frances
Crepe de Chine
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