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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1914
Page
4
A damaged advertisement touts St Jacobs Dit oil as a rapid remedy for backache and leg pain. It claims easy topical application with instant soothing effects and urges readers to consult a druggist for purchase. The copy emphasizes relief from stiffness and limpness.
A foreign guest wakes to an earnest embrace from a man claiming to be his father but realises the son is alive elsewhere in the hotel. The piece ponders talk value, identity, and the ethics of fingerprinting birth records as a means of citizen authentication.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Hospital held its regular monthly meeting in Washington DC. New members include Harriet B Stern Margaret Rudkin Lena Chaney Ane Bleckner Atex Arutstrang Jr Lucy Hartson Nimmo Lyontrupi Claraave W Owen Lynn Keller Maude McCune J W Jamison Afra Win Hamilton Jr Palmer Tesnall Donald McKeon Roger Whincle J McP ScottVa Schulenberger. Membership now 340. A cook book trial for the hospital will be published and soon put on wire. The next meeting is February 1st.
Charles Goldsmith died two miles east of Scotland from neuralgia of the head. He had complained of poor health all day. Rev. A S Powork from Washington Square M M Church delivered a sermon at Rt. Pauly U8. The tango debate and a blind telephonists experiment in Turin are noted, with local reactions and public interest.
An old advertisement promotes Tonsiline as a sore throat cure urging use at first sign. It claims quick, safe relief by targeting the source of illness and notes availability at drug stores with a hospital size priced at 1.00. The copy uses misspelled phrases and questionable claims.
A fragmentary market listing shows varied prices for grains and produce. Wheat flour potatoes hay clover middlings corn meal and other staples appear with range notes and unit prices in dollars per bushel or ton, reflecting mixed market movement.
The article traces ancient timekeeping using glass vessels and knotted lines to measure speed, then surveys ambulance development from eighteenth century field hospitals to Napoleonic mobility and the Civil War. It notes Larapé (Larpay) and the later, thorough organization of ambulance systems, with ongoing improvements.
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