Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Customer
A Mount Vernon resident claims Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her health and appetite. She describes daily use, confidence in the product, and even offers to attest to its merits before a notary, noting a bottle at her home.
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Woolworth
Newester City
Lydia
Pinkham
Ohio
Lydia DR. Pinkham
Franx M. Caser
South 11Th Ave
Mount Vernon
Deathbed Portrait in Immortal Will One Act
In Budapest the National theater opens its Shakespeare cycle with a one act play titled The Swan Song. Doctor Hevesi directs the piece exploring Shakespeare's last hours in Stratford under Puritan pressure. A recital from A Midsummer Night's Dream triggers memories of earlier triumphs as a Hamlet costume is revealed and the playwright dies while dictating the final lines of The Tempest.
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Budapest
National Theater
Doctor Hevesi
Stratford
England
Watches On Garters Spark Practical Fashion Debate
The London Eve notes that girls now wear watches on garters, viewed as sensible compared to tucking watches in pockets, highlighting a shift toward visible timepieces in daily attire.
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London
Radio on the farm turns air into dollars for agriculture
Government experts say radio expands farm wealth by delivering weather, market reports, and extension courses to farmers. Programs include farm news digests, Fifty Farm Flashes, homemaker shows, Junior Gardeners, and college extension broadcasts, with Kansas leading in radio equipped farms.
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A. Atwater Kent
Jardine
Teglonaltead
United States Department of Agriculture
Post Office Department
Uncle Sam
Miles
Washington County
Indiana
Department of Agriculture
Government Bureau of Home Economics
Radio Order
Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan
Kan
Mr. Jardine
Kansas
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Trusted Pain Relief
An advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer Cross on a package to ensure genuine Bayer Aspirin. It touts safety proven by millions and doctor approval for headaches neuritis lumbago toothache rheumatism and neuralgia. It notes small 12 tablet boxes and larger bottles sold by druggists.
Remarkable 18th Century Math on Compound Interest
The piece notes that Doctor Price, an eighteenth century statistician, calculated that a one cent investment at Christ’s birth, compounded till 1768, would yield 75,000,000 globes of solid gold the size of the Earth.
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Doctor Price
Christ
Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad Promises Fresh Skin
Antique advertisement extols Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic scented powder for face skin baby and dusting use. It touts affordability and claims to render other perfumes superfluous as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
Got 'Em All at Once Radio Jibe Exposed
A brief exchange highlights a radio battle as one person boasts tuning twenty stations in thirty minutes, while another counters with twice that speed. The quip captures competitive radio listening humor of the era and the era’s fascination with mass media reach.
Alaskan mink breeding begins with small stock shipment
Alaskans started a mink breeding program with two to three females yielding 14 pups last year. The Anchorage farm, moved from Moose Creek, now houses eleven females and five males. No pelts will be taken yet as the season starts.
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Anchorage
Ant
Moose Creek
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