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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1916
Page
3
The article urges men and women to drink hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the digestive tract and improve health and appearance. It notes the practice benefits headaches biliousness constipation and pallid complexions. It also describes a French big gun silencer that mutes firing by channeling gases, preventing loud noises beyond about 100 yards.
The Crusty Old Bachelor and the Self-Winding 23-Hour Grouch settle into a club chair. He laments spending an hour with young married ladies whose talk never leaves the Great Feminine Trilogy: dress, servants and babies.
Dialogue reveals doubt about Belle’s claimed age of twenty five. One character asserts she was at least that age ten years earlier, implying possible exaggeration or memory doubt.
In class, a student asks the teacher what the principal fruits of history are. The student answers that the dates are the key. The exchange highlights how time markers shape historical understanding.
An anecdote credits a hostess with converting three coffee drinkers to Postum by serving a well-made brew. The mother discovers the switch and learns Postum aided health. The tale promotes Postum Cereal and Instant Postum with prices and the slogan There’s a Reason, noting Battle Creek, Michigan as the company’s base.
Washington sees a long legislative agenda with defense and tariff bills. Senate and house dispute armed forces measures while revenue, immigration, and infrastructure bills await action. Biologists under Henry Henshaw showcase the biological survey’s work and a Pershing cavalry pace record draws attention to rapid troop movement.
Reverend John A Gray of the University of Minnesota sociology division argues homelessness in Cleveland is a disease not a habit. He bases his claim on a two weeks study living among hobos tramps and bums in Cleveland lodging houses.
Promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for feverishness headaches upset stomach teething disorders and worm destruction. Claims to move bowels break colds in 24 hours and be pleasant for children. Used by mothers for 28 years. All druggists price 2 cents sample free. Ad dress Mother Gray Co Le Roy NY.
A brief exchange notes fear of water and self reassurance. One speaker admits dizziness when near water, the other jokes that head movement prevents danger, reflecting a lighthearted dialogue.
A health ad warns that regular meat intake may cause kidney strain and backache. It promotes Jad Salts, four ounces daily in water for a few days, claiming it cleanses kidneys, neutralizes urine acids, and prevents bladder issues.
A humorous, fragmented note contrasts a boastful line about a night out with a polite refusal citing a new baby. It ends with a quip on risk and a line about a girl eating onions regularly as a comic aside.
The article explains how kidney disease raises arterial tension and harms heart function, leading to uremic poisoning and death, often labeled as heart or brain or lung disease. It promotes "Anuric" by Dr. Pierce as a preventive remedy for backache, urinary issues, rheumatic pains, and fatigue, claiming high potency and uric acid dissolution.
The Hawaiian Islands produced 2400 tons of salt in 1915 valued at $8 per ton. Most salt comes from the Honolulu Salt Company, produced by natural evaporation with coarse salt. no vacuum pans kettles or grainers are used.
An old man laments unread handwriting and jokes about reading ability while noting how older advisory figures sometimes invest in confidence schemes. The piece blends humor with a critique of literacy in a witty, aged voice.
The ad touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as purifying the blood to prevent illness in springtime. It argues impure blood causes weakness and poor appetite and claims the preparation cleanses poisons and boosts blood production.
Austria will reopen tin mines to resume exploitation halted before the war due to low profits. It is estimated that Bohemia’s three main mines could yield about three quarters of the country’s tin, while Austrian mines have produced only about one percent of national needs.
A short dialogue shows a father and child discussing Myrtle visiting last night and her leaving a pipe on the piano, signaling a domestic moment from the era. Myrtle is the sole visitor referenced, with no further action described.
Missouri mothers report Vap-O-Rub brings quick relief from croup and cold troubles. They describe rubbing the salve on the throat and chest, using warmth to release vapors, with Vicks claimed to ease tightness and soreness. The ad notes three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00 from Vick Chemical Company Greensboro NC, seen in Ozark, Missouri.
In Moosup Connecticut Mrs Fan ny A Cheney recounts a five year battle with rheumatic joint disease. Bed confined for a year she credits Varni s with restoring her strength and walking without aid. She praises Dr Varney and promotes Var nesis as a nontraditional remedy.
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