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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1915
Page
7
An old advertisement promotes Cascarrets as a 10 cent bowel cleansing remedy. It asserts the product purifies the liver and bowels while avoiding bloating, gas, or cramps, and promises restful overnight action with no gripe or side effects. It cites widespread use by men and women and claims relief from headaches, indigestion, and constipation.
A humorous exchange in Youths Companion letters discusses linguistic prowess and long words from Liddell and Scott Greek lexicon. The piece contrasts Greek and Teutonic vocabularies and recalls a comic jab about invented terms. In other notes, a woman burglar is identified by a distinctive fiber pattern.
Arkansas doctor says years of coffee use caused indigestion and general ill health and that Postum improved his condition after careful preparation. He cites a Minnesota woman who gained weight and recovered vitality after switching to Postum. Postum comes in Regular and Instant forms, price 50¢ and 60¢ per tin, with brewing instructions.
In 1919 Seattle prepared for foreign trade with 7,058,604 tonnage, led by New York and New Orleans, but with only a few deep water slips for Atlantic ports. The article notes Seattle’s rise as a Pacific gateway, the Panama Canal's impact on freight, and expected regional gains for Tacoma Portland and Vancouver as interoceanic routes reshape wealth and population in the Northwest.
A Salcombe correspondent to The Lancet notes garden produce including peas beans globe artichokes tomatoes and strawberries, praising a sunny Devon climate despite cold northern weather. The piece mentions aloe flowers and subtropical blooms in winter and contrasts English warmth with harsher north winds. Portraiture in Italy reports a decline in good portrait painters since thirty years ago, with royal portraits scarce in Italy and foreign artists dominating.
An American navy officer developed a gun that fires a single end open projectile with no recoil. The design, termed thin due to recoil absence, suits planes and airships. The shell carries a tied projectile at one end and birdshot at the other, providing reaction force as the projectile exits. The shot exits breech at low velocity while the projectile leaves the muzzle at high speed.
The war’s impact on costs eases into a restaurant scene where a keeper faces rising laundry bills. He posts a notice urging customers not to draw on table cloths and to find maps of the war’s seat in the smoking room, reflecting wartime humor and practical strains.
A short reader survey praises Peruna as the safest grip remedy with an expectorant tonic and laxative qualities. Mrs. Gentry Gaten of Alabama and Mr. George B. Law of Indiana endorse Peruna, claiming cure and strong satisfaction.
St Genevieve the patron aunt of Paris was consecrated to religious service by St Germania bishop of Auxerry who passed through Nanterre near Paris four miles away. She gained a kerint reputation for kaneity as the church of St Genevieve, finished in 1744, was later renamed Pantheon during the revolutionary period and then restored to its original name and rites.
Washington D C Alum baking powders are no more harmful to a person than any other baking powders. The ref eree board of consulting sclentifc experts of the department of agriculture released a unanimous report detailing three sets of human experiments assessing aluminum compounds on nutrition and health. The board members include Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins Russell H Crittenden Yale John W H Long Northwestern Alonzo E Taylor Pennsylvania and Theobald Smith Harvard.
The piece reflects on the highest ambition generating true humility and the need for divine power beyond human effort. It asserts humans can be coworkers with almighty God in the universe’s great scheme, and that reliance on a power divine is essential to accomplish transcendent tasks.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for scalp dandruff itching and healthy hair growth. It claims the products cleanse soothe and improve scalp condition and offers free samples by mail. The notice also markets Castoria for infants children and offers a variety of consumer lines with a motherly tone.
Keep medicines in one place away from children and have Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh on hand for emergencies. It aids burns and cuts and is worth many times its cost. Ady remarks on a pleasing collection of past ideas and mutual self seeing.
A humorous exchange unfolds in a United States court as an Indian witness, steadfast and silent, answers a lawyer's probing question with a sharp retort about earning a living. The moment elicits laughter from the courtroom, highlighting contrasts between wit and perceived dignity.
In a Washington hotel lobby a discussion spins a tale about a New York congressman Ed Platt recounting a Jersey coast bungalow fire. Smith boasts of a local fire department yet quips the heroic effort washed away bulletins in a comic misreading of a Philadelphia Telegraph item.
The passage parrots a 19th century style advertisement urging quitting meat to prevent kidney trouble. It extols Jud Salts and Lithia water as cures for uric acids and bladder weakness, claiming dramatic kidney benefits, alongside a string of clipped maxims and mock quotations from period writers.
Read this letter from Mrs Waters of Camden New Jersey describing two years of nervous spells and kidney issues. After Using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved in two months and feels like a new woman, with husband endorsing the medicine.
A terse historical fragment describes cleansing and drying a foot, applying Hanford's Balpam of Myrrh, and a remark about Afuka preferring not to take more than half what he believed he bet, reflecting scattered, practical lines.
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