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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
7
Entries for the cookery contests are scheduled on specific dates with multiple prize categories including butter bread lard vinegar soap and candies. The notice outlines entry times Oct 24 28 and 30 with values from 1 to 5 dollars and details on perishable item handling and judging procedures.
Chicago dispatch relays Tamaki Miura, Japanese grand opera star, stating that in Japan a woman has one great love and life is empty without it. She compares Japanese and American views on marriage, alimony, and divorce, reflecting on Geisha culture and love.
A historical recipe describes steeping soap bark in hot water, straining into a gallon jar with dissolved white soap, filling nearly full with hot rain water, adding borax worth ten cents, stirring, and letting stand overnight. It is then diluted with warm water and applied to carpet with a scrub brush and rinsed with clean hot water.
Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not lengthy. Names, however, will not be printed. Address your inquiries to Miss Eros Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered or private correspondence handled. Use ink and write only on one side of paper.
A 17 year old girl asks how to win a boy from a friend and is advised she is too young for such pursuits. A young man asks how to choose a wife and is told to consider a suitable partner rather than chasing any specific girl.
Fifty prominent women spoke on careers open to women at NYU School of Commerce. Speakers included Miss Lillian Wald and Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with notes on roles from sales to stage and farm to professions. Rebecca Lane Prince, president of the National Association of Army Nurses, was a guest of honor and noted as a leading Grand Army figure from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A vintage health ad touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a pure vegetable blood purifier. It claims to cleanse impure matter from the system, improve digestion, revival of energy, and clear skin, urging purchase today in liquid or tablet form.
An old advertisement offers a cloth bound 1008 page Common Sense Medical Adviser from Dr. Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo NY. Request three dimes or stamps to cover wrapping and mailing. The notice promises topics on physiology anatomy sex marriage hygiene exercise disease and prevention.
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