March to Victory and Spring Health Remedies
The piece promotes blood boosting tonics and dietary advice as spring health cures. It advocates Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Anuric for uric acid, urging readers to send cents for trials and to seek these remedies at Dr. Pierce’s Buffalo hotel and institute. It frames blood quality as central to vigor and nerve strength.
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Dr. Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Why Sambo Keeps His Mule
A vignette from Everybody’s Magazine about a mule and a stubborn owner. The man refuses to trade the mule, saying it would be a personal victory for the animal after six weeks of effort. The piece toys with the theme of attributing life’s troubles to bad luck.
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Sambo
Everybody’s Magazine
Nebraska wartime notes and local actions span Omaha to Red Cloud
News briefs report Miss Lyda McMahon’s Geneva hearing set for April 17, Omaha police chief Henry Thunn resigning for health, a Red Cross sale netting 7000 dollars, a goose sold 650 times for a dollar, and various war related measures. Nebraska urges wheat marketing, Liberty loan targets, and soldiers’ voting by mail.
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Red Cross
Gothenburg
Omaha
Henry Thunn
France
Nebraska Gua
Wahoo
Saunders County Council of Defense
Dahiwan
Neville
Hastings
Nebraska State Press Association
Grand Island
Red Cloud
State Railway Commission
United Brotherhood of Stromsburg
Lincoln
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Cheyenne County
Washington
State Food Administration
Wattles
Herbert Hoover
United States Food Administrator
Nebraska Administration
Patriotism and sacrifice urged in wartime women letters
A wartime column criticizes petty selfishness over food and luxuries during the Great War. It urges women to forego white bread bacon and other comforts, invest in Liberty bonds, and match soldiers’ sacrifices with ungrudging support and duty.
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Virginia Terhune van DE Water
Vigilantes
Food Administration
Red Cross
Christ
True Respectability in Living Within One's Means
A concise reflection on respectability tied to financial restraint. The saying emphasizes courage in choosing a modest lifestyle over excess. The idea champions prudent budgeting and self disciplined spending as a measure of character.
Boschee's German Syrup Ad and Cardiff Prop Innovation
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a long used cough remedy for coughs bronchitis and lung troubles promising restful nights and easier mornings. A Cardiff architect Edward Seward promotes a new indestructible prop made from cinders stone and clinker noted for simple construction and one person handling.
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United States
America
Adv
Edward Seward
Cardiff
Tarkington urges soldiers sending novels not history
The Makers Booth Tarkington meets a young woman in a New York book store buying books to send to troops. He advises sending rousing novels, not history, insisting the soldiers are making history themselves.
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Booth Tarkington
New York
Mr. Tarkington
The Particular Time Dialogue Moment
A terse exchange questions devotion as a character asks when the worship occurs and the reply answers in a phrase about an idol moment. The lines reveal a meditation on timing and reverence within a dramatic exchange.
Swallow Flight Imitation Sparks Social Echoes
A fragment notes a fast young man mimicking a swallow in flight while women abstain from smoking, reflecting social behavior and fashion trends of the era.
Addressing Ulcer Disease in Adams Iowa Patient Testimony
Mrs Liszag Courtney of 108 8th Ave in Oskaloosa Iowa writes of suffering from a weakness and the relief she found from a treatment. She claims the remedy brought relief and hopes others will benefit.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa
Liszig Couurtney
8Th Ave
Pers
Es Genee
Cole Cemeie Shou Root
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Carter
Dean
Dean's
Posteraglburn CO
N.Y
News OF Nebraska
Lyda McMahon
Girls’ Industrial School
Geneva
Columbia Society
Norfolk
German Hall
The
Landwehr Verein
Mills of
Boschee
Lee
Agra
W.N. U
Packer
Swift & Company
U.S
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Illnois
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