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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
3
A patent description outlines a flat shaped sound magnifier with a small attachable support for the telephone receiver. When lightening the load of holding the phone, the user rests the receiver on the device to hear the distant party clearly while keeping both hands free for documents, notes, or dictation.
An advertisement extols Hancock's Sulphur Compound for eczema itch and skin ailments with a testimonial from Mrs. Evelyn Garst of Salem Virginia. It also promotes Hancock's Sulphur Ointment for complexion and blackheads. The piece then digresses to London lumber and snatches social history about hackney carriages and relics.
Bartsch of Shreveport Louisiana profits by selling flies to the city board of health. He earned 24.20 in two days and bought 100 traps when premiums were offered finding it profitable to operate as the board reduced purchase price from 50 to 20 cents a quart. He continues to work, betting on ongoing premiums.
A fragment notes Miss Slasher appears stunning when dressed. a witness says he has only seen her on the street and offers no comment on a specific event or whereabouts.
A Texas primary teacher credits ending coffee for better nerves and skin after six months abstaining. She notes relief from indigestion and headaches, claims no withdrawal, and praises Postum as a suitable coffee substitute available in Regular and Instant forms. The ad urges readers to try Postum and states there is a reason for its benefits.
A poultry breeder details line breeding using trap nests and bantam hens to track chicks from individual hens. Chicks are toe marked at one week with a punch, then leg-banded at 3 to 4 months, with all band numbers and toe marks recorded. Pedigree trays in incubators separate eggs and newborns, aiding careful records for fancy breeders.
An Ohio Agricultural College program reports a White Leghorn pullet laying her first egg at four months fourteen days, among 720 chicks. The Yesterland line showed earlier maturity, with detailed feeding from day one to maturity, including grains, mash, meat scraps, greens, and grits.
The duckling fails to escape danger and becomes easy prey, while the chicken stays alert and hides at the first strange noise. The contrast highlights instinctive responses to threat between two birds.
Dress patterns for young girls offer a front closing frock with empire or regulation waist and a three gore skirt. Pattern 6061 fits ages 14 16 18 with yardage listed for 36 and 27 inch fabrics. Pattern 6086 features a left side closing sailor collar and flounced three gores.
Ella laments her divorce, Bella notes alimony generosity. A club piece claims a housewife must ensure the husband’s comfort, asserting men stay content when meals and home life satisfy them. A gag about a fake palmist ends with the line you must reveal your hand.
A quizzical survey contrasts how nations prepare and eat boiled eggs. It notes English and French preferences for three minute boils with shells removed and dipping, Spaniards and Italians favoring near liquid or cold water rituals, Germans scooping liquid as soup, and Americans tending to hard boil with pepper and salt on toast.
Mrs. Ida S. Johnson of Hyattsville Maryland reports her son suffered a severe scalp infection with itching burning and widespread pimples. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the child slept through the night and recovered with improved hair growth. Free samples offered.
A newly rich woman eager to impress the bishop showcases her antiques collection. She praises each item, including an old yellow teapot claimed to have been used in the Boston Tea Party. The anecdote blends vanity with a curious historic boast.
The article instructs to pad the ironing board with a thick quilt or blanket, cover with a muslin slip stitched loose at ends, make two slips, and change them regularly so the board stays clean and padding lasts months.
A London inquest found a broken heart caused by a violent beating led to the death of Alexander Burness, a master tailor aged sixty four. He fell during a dispute with a foreman cutter over ownership of items he planned to move from his former premises to new ones.
An American tourist and an obsequious Paris landlord discuss the most important event in Paris history. The tourist quips that America’s discovery propelled Paris’s financial rise, while the landlord seeks tipping status.
Odd ad copy notes a waiter questioning beef origin while a buyer is advised to try Hicks CAPUDINE for headaches. The advertisement promises fast relief with a money back guarantee and lists 25 cents price, urging purchase at medicine stores.
Popular Mechanics describes New York's new post office, a six million dollar granite structure facing Pennsylvania Station. It stands 101 feet high, contains 165000 cubic feet of granite and 18000 tons of steel, with 7000000 bricks and 200000 square feet of glass. The main corridor spans 280 feet with buff marble and glass, while 400000 square feet of working space fill the building.
An advertisement targets business women noting weakness and strain. It promotes Burduco Liver Powder as a vegetable preparation that relieves constipation torpid liver sour stomach and indigestion and assists nature without salivation. It claims superiority to calomel and lists a 25 cent price in screw top cans from Burwell Dunn of Charlotte North Carolina.
A note on how insurers use medical examiners data to identify applicants after death. It cites a western company receiving a physician report with the line identifying the insured by the mark “He has a strong Cornish accent.” and discusses the role of personal marks in postmortem identification.
A 37 pound meteorite fell near a native woman in Zulu land and was witnessed from 15 miles away. In Johannesburg chemical circles it sparked discussion. The stone remains unbroken and is said to contain platinum.
The article argues there is only one safe method to regulate body weight through natural means such as diet, exercise, and hygiene. It warns against weight loss nostrums that promise quick results without changing diet, stating they are dangerous and that the same diet that adds weight to a thin person will remove weight from a fat person.
A testimonial ad promotes Elixir Babek as a preventative and cure for malaria chills and fever. J Middleton of Four Mile Run Virginia says he used it for four years and could not tolerate quinine. The elixir costs 50 cents and is available from Kloczewski & Co Washington DC by parcel post.
Conversation recalls a social gathering at Hicks home described as a birthday party. Hicks confirms it marked the eleventh anniversary of his wife’s twenty-fifth birthday, noting it was a private celebration with family.
A vivid 20th century ad block offers RUB-MY-TISM for rheumatism and pains plus GROVE'S TASTELESS TONIC advertised to enrich blood and strengthen the system for summer heat. A humorous aside notes an actor needing no one night stands to grasp life’s fleeting show.
Two readers from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin and Providence Rhode Island report relief from female health issues including displacement backache and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They credit improved health and endorse continued use.
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