Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Johans Review
A caressing pieced advertisement recounts grateful women noting health recoveries after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters from Michigan to Alaska praise renewed strength and ability to work, with the brand touted as made from roots and herbs and fifty years of use. A recruitment appeal from Fox Brothers seeks a town representative in Winnetka Illinois.
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Lydia Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
FOX Brothers
Winnetka, Ill
Portraits Presented to Post for Two Elizabethtown Soldiers
Portraits of Joseph P. Barnes and Joseph A. Ryan, Elizabethtown men killed in action in France, were presented to Elizabeth Post No 130 of the American Legion by their mothers. The men were buried in a double military funeral when their bodies returned from France.
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Post
Elizabethtown
France
Elizabeth Post No. 130
American Legion
Joseph P. Barnes
Joseph A. Ryan
Fairy godfather donor aids Tulsa Legion post home
To Build Home for Post Waite Phillips in Tulsa is hailed as the fairy godfather of Joe Carson post of the American Legion after his name is made public as the donor of 11000 dollars to build a home for the post in Legion park. The building is being erected partially with volunteer labor from the post.
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Waite Phillips
Tulsa
Okla
Oll Man
Joe Carson Post
American Legion
Legion Park
One Graduate Receives Diploma in Millboro
M L Combs supervisor of the research division of the Virginia state board of education traveled 176 miles to address a graduating class of one person. The exercises were held at Millboro Va where Ruth Hickman the lone graduate received her diploma.
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M. L. Combs
Virginia State Board of Education
Millboro
Ruth Hickman
Too Thrilled for Words by a Proud Editor
A self authored poem notes the editor meets Edgar Allan Poe and cherishes the rare honor. The speaker revels in recognition and the thrill of literary contact.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Castoria Endorsed by Physicians for Over Eighty Years
The advertisement promotes Fletcher's Castoria as a safe substitute for Castor Oil Paregoric Teething Drops and soothing syrups. It claims no narcotics and notes proven directions on each package with the genuine bearing the signature.
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Fletcher
Sleeveless Frocks and Wide Brims Dominate Midsummer Style
Fashion notes praise sleeveless sports frocks in white silk damask with red belts, paired with broad brim hats and navy blue milans. The piece highlights large brim chapeaux, white leather coats with red linings, and color accents in yellow and polka dot ribbons, as Julia Bottomley reports from 1927.
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Milady
Witty Witch and Fairy Picnic for Lizards
The tale describes fairies hosting a color changing red and gray costume picnic for lizards on a mossy table with raindrop lights. Witty Witch entertains with tricks and stories while the lizards enjoy games and a mossy supper, as the Fairy Queen unveils the performance.
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Old Witty Witch
Riddles and Quick Jests From a Local Page
A compact set of playful Q and A items with puns and wordplay. The jokes cover swift poetry, locomotive ear jokes, pane pun, butterfly process, Admiral Beatty, bells, horses on the Isle of Wight, camel and orange, and a donkey postage stamp pun. Each line delivers a quick pun or riddle punchline.
Just Man Aims to Return Lost Property by Scattering Cans
A Miami County farmer plans to gather tin cans bottles paper sacks and picnic plates and haul them to Kansas City in the late fall to scatter on boulevards returning the items to their rightful owners per Capper's Weekly on the home paper.
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Miami County
Kansas City
Minute jelly offers quick fruit jelly from concentrate
A new food product called minute jelly uses pure fruit or berry juice concentrated with added pectin. Boil the bottle with water and sugar, then set to cool for a ready to use jelly. A small bottle yields two glasses, with flavors such as grape mint pineapple orange raspberry strawberry or blackberry. Send twenty five cents for two bottles or fifty cents for four different bottles to General Packing Corp Cranford New Jersey.
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General Packing Corp
Cranford, New Jersey
Widow’s Suit Sparks Marital Plans Across Farm
In a rural quip from the Kansas City Star, Farmer Fumblegate jokes about a would-be marriage prompted by the widder Soonover, revealing a lighthearted exchange on matrimonial meddling and family ties.
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Farmer Fumblegate
Widder Soonover
Kansas City Star
Absence Sparks Fondness When Hearts Recall
A playful exchange notes how lack of presence deepens affection. The humorous dialogue contrasts the idea of longing with practical affection as two speakers tease each other about attention and romance.
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Cincinnati
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Western Newspaper Union
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Admiral Beatty
Isle of Wight
Ryde
P. Co., Inc
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Rainier National Park
Y. Park
Seattle-Tacoma
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