In Love Again and Wayward Tales Showdown
A collage of light verse and quips from Wayside Tales and Avsoy’s Fables. Jokes include women and hens as moral fables, a seduction of love lines, and a pun on income tax. The items read like quick humor sketches, with character dialogue and playful mishearings.
Prevent Consumption with Bear's Emulsion
Take Bear's Emulsion daily to strengthen the body and prevent coughs and chest illnesses. The ad claims thorough testing by locals and endorsements from people you know, urging readers to buy from leading druggists to stay healthy and avoid bronchitis, croup, or whooping cough.
Br Yang New Discovery Offered for Cough Colds
An old cough and cold remedy is promoted as a roved and successful medicine for coughs, colds, and grippe. For over fifty years it has eased coughing, loosened phlegm, quieted croupy coughs, and relieved congestion. Sold by druggists for 60 cents.
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Br. Yang
Unclear performance wordplay in a 19th century tale
A garbled OCR passage describes a performer discussing a pencil and color choices. The text is fragmentary and misread, mentioning a calm utterance of the word bed and a speaker’s reply about selecting a color or method. Names and context are not recoverable.
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Poneil
Payne
Ayal
Confessions Of A Movie Star Harsh Vanity And Plotting
A narrating character reflects on Dick Barnes and Ginette in a decadent Hollywood milieu. Rose explains cosmetic surgery trends, beauty quotes, and age-related vanity as they plot and gossip about stars, rivals, and the artifice of youth.
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Ginette
Ram Tha Gonsip
McMasters
What City Is This Brady Diagram Puzzle
A 1921 NEA Service puzzle asks readers to identify a city from a Brady diagram. It requests interpreting each picker part to deduce the city’s name and hints at broader life questions about the future. The item notes it will continue in tomorrow’s Daily Math.
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Brady
United States
Tomorow
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