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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1938
Page
7
Tips cover furniture coverings with zipper fasteners, balancing groupings of furniture, washing walls with a flour paste for dirt, threading a broken cotton end through the needle, and a prune based salad recipe with cream cheese stuffing and lettuce leaves.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion for coughs chest colds and bronchial irritation promising fast relief. It claims the remedy reaches the source of trouble soothes mucous and expels germs with a money back guarantee if not satisfied from the first bottle.
Fragmentary note hints at a group named Merry Souls performing or composing music that energizes people or athletes. Lacking concrete events or locations, the text implies a link between music and body performance. No dates, venues, or explicit outcomes are provided.
An old fashioned Penetro salve claims to ease chest tightness by its counter irritant vaporizing action. The ad touts a base of mutton suet and 118 to 227 percent more medication than rivals, urging use by children and adults with a large jar priced at 35 cents.
Crochet a rainbow of 7 inch wide strips forming a flower themed afghan. Use yarn scraps or three shade tones for a jeweled effect. Pattern 1623 offers directions materials colors and illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle, Eighth Ave New York for pattern 1623.
The text describes the Fort Knox gold depository in Kentucky, noting its subterranean main structure, torch-proof wall, photoelectric eye, four gun turrets, steel fencing, and constant armed guards using machine guns and other defenses. A Washington Star note anchors the description in a industry context. It also includes two unrelated ad snippets for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and a Massinger quote about stooping to rise.
An advertisement exhorts women to use Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ease monthly discomforts and menstrual issues. It claims over a million women report benefits and urges immediate purchase. The ad blends rhetorical appeals with a quotation about inner calm.
A homemaker shares cherished recipes including Yorkshire Tarts Orange Bread Pudding Fruit Souffle Fried Clams French Fried Potatoes Steamed Soft Clams and Custard Sauce with practical steps and serving ideas. Also notes a decorative chrome yellow floor and sunlit room effect.
Guide explains stiffening the drapery top with heading canvas four to six inches deep and placing plaits. It covers measuring width, spacing plaits, sewing depth of stiffening, and attaching rings on the back. Ends by promoting Mrs. Spears' book Sewing for home projects.
In 1906 the infant auto industry supplied about 80,000 jobs with early cars selling at $5,000 and up. Advertising spurred demand, now supporting roughly 5,000,000 jobs, improving cars and reducing prices so one in five Americans owns a car.
The text describes odd details in a Mistake-O-Graph feature including a door on a building side, steam engine power, two town names, and a weather and coal sales timetable. It notes a taxi with a rear steering wheel, a porter carrying a man in a luggage carrier, and various railcar oddities such as coal cars with wheels missing and a gondola labeled Pullman.
Favorite recipe asks for Shrimp Creole with onions celery tomatoes peas and rice. It can be made ahead and reheated, with tips on chili powder tasting and convenient double boiler reheating. The author Marjorie H Black suggests chilled pears with custard as dessert.
A collection of aphoristic thoughts compares deflation, appetite for seeds, and the appeal of wisdom. It nods to touristic artifacts in Egypt and notes Americans would demand affidavits for historic finds. The passage ends on the value of wise speech to wise listeners.
Ad touts The Miracle of Irium in Pepsodent Paste and Powder for gleaming teeth. It claims safety with no bleach grit or pumice and promises quick reveal of natural pearly brilliance, leaving mouths refreshed and tingling clean.
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