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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
9
The ad urges renewing energy and stamina during the season of fatigue. It claims impure blood causes pimples, headaches, and tiredness. It promotes a vegetable tonic as a better remedy than Dr Pierce's Golden Medical.
Doctors nationwide report grip illness this year leaves victims with lame backs and burning urination. Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root is advertised as kidney strengthener with sample offers and large bottle sales. the ad claims it helps those suffering grip’s kidney damage.
A federal wage board recommends raises from 1 to 43 percent for most railroad workers, totaling about 260 million in added payroll costs. McAdoo may adopt parts of the plan, balancing higher living costs with overall industry pay structure, while planning implied rate increases and a shortened workday study.
A table outlines monthly pay increases for railroad workers across bands from 46.01 to 249.00 dollars. Presented as revised wage scales by the Wage Commissions, with new monthly rates shown alongside older figures and ranges.
A Pennsylvania farmer invents a one handed device used on a glove to untie knots in twine. Italy bans mills producing wheat flour for bread. Less than eighty percent of grain used. Tropical plants show light emitting qualities with luminous flowers stems and phosphorescent juices.
Government maintains one agricultural college and three experiment stations in Norway. Anecdotes describe American electricians using devices to drive mosquitoes from the Caliph of Baghdad’s palace. An inventor combines a shaving brush with a rubber device for lather on one handle, a boxing practice figure linked to a registering device that records position and force.
In a ward full of padded cells eighty patients each claim a different solution to the submarine problem. The exchange notes the quirky imagination of the era and the odd humor of wartime life.
Fractured dialogue hints at a tense exchange about a wife and cigars during a quiet Christmas moment. Gus denies jokes about marriage while Gusty presses, and a heavy silence follows.
Advert shows Othine double strength freckles remover promising clear skin and guarantees money back. Mentions seller policy and quick results for freckles. Brief wartime anecdote follows about a late rookie in a Great Lakes unit and a prompted directive from a company commander.
Fragmentary clipping parodies old time advertising and censorship discourse. A note on Castoria branding and a librarian exchange blend with a quip about censoring love letters and friendship. The text weaves random phrases and historical product references into a satirical vignette.
A teacher asks students to submit original multiplication problems. William volunteers with a simple task, while the rest of the class watches as he presents his puzzle. The reader notes a quirky child’s toy-like question about a baby sister’s weight and a graduation outfit cost if living expenses double in ten years.
A poet questions enjoyment of reading as a relief from daily strain. He notes reading is seldom interesting enough to fully distract him from the ongoing coal shortage and related worries.
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