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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1916
Page
3
Dodson's Liver Tone touted as a safe vegetable liver remedy replaces calomel, promising to purge bile and cleanse bowels without causing salivation. An endorsement claims one spoonful cures sluggish liver and promotes family health, with a money back guarantee.
A quarrel over a society column ends with a wife accusing the editor of misdescribing her gown. The husband teases whether her name was omitted, and the wife clarifies the piece was not entirely accurate.
An advertisement extols Resinol Soap for clearer skin and softer hands with occasional Resinol Ointment for severe cases. It claims no free alkali and notes availability from druggists. A short gambling jab follows about buying a worthless ticket.
A dated advertisement promotes a hair darkening solution using Bay Rum Barbo Compound glycerine and water. It claims to gradually shade gray hair without coloring the scalp, removing dandruff, and improving hair texture with twice weekly application.
A light humorous exchange contrasts theater and mathematics as a character dismisses the math-heavy problem play at Gazink theater. The banter hints at critics' skepticism and audience tastes of the era.
An insurance page interview notes many applicants are rejected due to kidney trouble. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is promoted as a mild kidney liver and bladder remedy with quick healing effects. Sample offer for ten cents via Dr Elmer Co. Binghamton NY.
A fragmentary dialogue hints at bravado and reluctance. The line suggests a bachelor prefers another to wed as a path to happiness rather to marriage.
Kin Hubbard reflects on modern life comparing past and present. He notes constant progress yet warns against panic over crime while praising improvements in health care work and social life, urging optimism and resilience amid headlines and shocks.
Rev Wiley Tanger urges that modern mania for entertainment undermines spiritual life in a graduation address at Dal Plum’s barber college. He criticizes obsession with workless leisure, films, kitchens in churches, and a culture of pleasure, noting shifts from family duty to social spectacle.
Advertisements cite Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for symptoms of menopause and the Change of Life. Women's letters from Philadelphia Beverly and Erie praise relief from headaches backache heat flashes nervousness and dyspepsia with endorsements and free advice offered by the company. Also contains a short piece on how Sioux Indians bore wood using larvae and a light joke about pride and a neighbor.
An old home remedy called Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy darkens gray hair evenly and naturally, plus treats dandruff and itching. Sold in drugstores for about fifty cents, instructions suggest applying with sponge or brush strand by strand. results claim to look younger after a few uses.
The text promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women's health issues, claiming it restores womanly functions and relieves pain and distress. It emphasizes a temperance remedy made from roots and herbs and urges women to obtain it in liquid or tablet form daily.
Advertisers urge mothers to use Castoria with its signature for over 30 years. The notice notes children cry for Castoria and links prohibition to increased soda fountain demand, claiming dealers see roughly a million dollar uplift yearly in the past two years.
An advertisement touts Grove's Old Standard Tonic as a tasteless quinine and iron tonic with liver, malaria fighting, blood enrichment, and whole-body strengthening effects priced at 50 cents. The piece also references leap years, a teen revival speaker in New York, and stray lines about druggist refunds and New Year resolutions.
Dr. Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo announces Anuric as a superior eliminator of uric acid. The cure claims rapid relief from back ache, scalding urine, sediment in urine, and rheumatism, gravel, and gout. A trial package costs 10 cents with full treatment available at druggists.
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