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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
2
An old advertisement touts RUB-MY-TISM for rheumatism and various pains with a 250 price, and Hicks CAPUCINE advertised as best for summer headaches with bottles sold at medicine stores for 10c to 0c. The mock line notes humor can be traded for dollars.
A luncheon featured a ham prepared from a Jefferson family recipe that warns against boiling. A young colored woman from the mountains tended the stovetop and humorously asserts she will not boil the ham, insisting it simmers instead.
Baltimore police officer John T. Carroll reports long suffering from eczema on his hands. After trying eminent doctors with no success, he used Hancock's Sulphur Compound and Ointment. He improved after one week and at Johns Hopkins Hospital followed six to eight weeks of treatment, ending in a full cure.
Best for Horses promotes Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh for sores and galls with claims of better work from healthier horses. Ranch men lumbermen and liverymen recommend it. Advertorial tone notes doubly repaid by improved horse performance. A quip at end contrasts absence with creditors.
Ancon chief sanitary officer Col. W. C. Gorgas and his assistants receive full credit for eradicating yellow fever and malaria in the Panama Canal Zone. The piece details mosquito control methods, drainage, fumigation, screenings, and sanitation efforts, along with hospital facilities on Ancon and Colon and the Taboga sanitarium for convalescents.
A readers notice requests pattern procurement with a printed address and pattern number to be provided. The fragment implies a request form or order for a pattern with essential contact details for processing.
The pattern 6252 for a dress with a short yoke and tucked sections fits ages 2, 4, and 6 years. Materials like batistes and lawn are suitable. Either tuck or gather may be used. a medium size needs about 2 1/2 yards of 27 inch fabric. Pattern cement, 10 cents, includes instructions. His comment notes women’s role in commerce and a quip on shopping routines.
A young man from the Argentine Legation in Washington attended an afternoon event where a couple in a corner drew attention. The woman notes they have been courting twenty years, ages fifty-one and thirty-nine, prompting the Argentine to remark that it is a romance of the Middle Ages.
An old patent medicine advertisement promises Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil cures for stubborn sores with prices 25c 50c and 1 00. A Nebraska Supreme Court case, Stehr vs State, discusses criminal negligence manslaughter after a blizzard death in which a father failed to obtain medical help for a child whose frozen feet led to amputation and death.
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