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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
7
Mrs. Rena Bowman of Stanton Ohio reports improved health after using Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for long suffering female troubles. Her daughter, once nervous and unable to sleep, now appears healthy. She urges other women to try the remedy and writes that a doctor approved their renewed vitality.
Excerpt from A Farmer's Note Book by C. B. Phelps discusses animal idiosyncrasies including fear, dexterity, and trickery in horses and other beasts. It notes ancient and medieval references such as bulls and dogs and mentions anecdotes of mules and cows with unusual behaviors.
Hanford's Balsam is guaranteed to cure ailments and injuries that can be treated externally or money refunded by the center. Getting a bottle now is like buying insurance and comfort. The ad mixes stray proverbs and social notes about marriage, manners, and conversations revealing social norms of the time.
I tell of a farmer with a wagon of vegetables and chickens who visits town and sees his wife awaiting a warm greeting. Evening comes and he is drunk, changing the home scene as children shrink away and the wife bears sorrow, foreseeing a desolate night.
A historical piece argues a mother’s investment in a son exceeds four thousand dollars by age twenty-one, comparing the home and care costs to a house destroyed by fire. It questions liquor profits to farmers, noting liquor use is under three percent of grain crops. A court scene shows a wife pleading for her husband’s removal to protect children, asking if he should be locked up to work.
Northern Wisconsin shows a long road of a hundred miles with limited towns and a small political margin. The region is described as home to foreign emigrants, lumbermen, and copper and iron workers, highlighting demographic variety and local voting dynamics.
In the Nature Class a child names a creature as belonging to the Bento generation. The teacher prompts for another example while a student cites family by saying their papa and mamma claim the creature. The exchange highlights classroom humor and student imagination.
A fragment notes celebration of Mother’s Day with wearing a flower and jokes about girls helping at home by washing dishes, reflecting dated social attitudes and humor.
A Unified scientist prescribes sparing meals for the aged noting reduced intake prevents overtaxing digestion and kidney strain. Water, regular pleasant baths, moderate exercise, and light warm woolen clothing aid comfort. protect the teeth and promote sleep.
A North Dakota reader describes eczema spreading from the neck to back arms and chest with itching and crusting. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment used daily for two months with cure. Signed Mine Mildred Dennis dated April 40 1919 and offers free samples with a Skin Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
A damaged OCR excerpt shows scattered phrases about war, a boy refusing a half lot, a twenty year old girl in a town, town relocation, and various advertisements for household products. Names and places are unclear, with stray product references interwoven in a garbled narrative.
The article recalls the peril of ships anchored at moorings during storms and the rule that only allows movement when necessary. It honors crews who risk their lives, noting that for about four hundred years such mariners and their craft have saved billions in commerce along American shores. The Poplar Magazine.
A satirical tale recounts Tomes Stillman hosting a British delegation in New York. He loans a $15,000 French motor to the visitors who speed along the Hudson drive and nearly strike a lone cyclist. They realize the cyclist is their host, head of a major World bank group, provoking shock.
A humorous plea imagines elevating the hen above the traditional turkey and goose in major American feasts. The piece questions historical neglect of hens and suggests making the hen central to Fourth of July celebrations, alongside Thanksgiving and Christmas.
A fragment discusses a New York critic praising newspaper ads as effective billboards. The stage manager compares a meadow set built with chewing gum and cald-cure to real scenery, while the star objects, and a clash over authenticity and commercial staging emerges.
A malformed Denver paper excerpt attributes a controversial, wry remark about the modern American woman to Titte Ruff of the Chicago Grand Opera company. The speaker mocks women's roles, claiming women are both bold and beautiful while describing a provocative idea of female submission in American life.
A garbled account shows a frail memory of a man inside a building. A janitor is mentioned as a source of a tip about a cure and a plan to be born for the settlement. The wording is uncertain and indicates a faded report.
A fragmented note cites the Augusta wind and Ivins in a surreal scene where a serenade is described as not being a dead one, expressing perplexity over the phrases Did you ever pew Augustat and What Augasta.
In a bustling market town a farmer and buyer haggle over a horse or cow price. The buyer pushes for twelve pounds while the seller resists, fearing his partner’s sorrow at parting with the animal, then hints he might settle for the offered “nines ob” if the deal cannot proceed.
Remeared Mary aged five watches mother dust an Encyclopaedia Britannica on the bottom shelf. She asks about an encyclopaedia and later, while studying Sunday school notes, is found turning pages in the volume titled flow-Ava seeking a picture of God making the World.
Fragmented OCR text appears to describe a peculiar set of objects and questions about devices and using a balsam for thrush. It mentions a flying machine, altitude testing, and a golf umbrella as a curious prop, with disjointed phrases showing informal discourse and incomplete sentences.
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