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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
2
A vintage advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a harmless fruit laxative for children and adults. It urges checking for coated tongues as a sign of digestive issues and claims a spoonful will cleanse the bowels within hours, promising a well and playful child thereafter.
Glassmer, a British gas poisons expert, argues carbon monoxide from automobile exhaust raises pneumonia susceptibility. He cites substantial evidence supporting the claim and warns the exhaust fumes are a constant risk to health.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that works through the blood to heal catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tubes, offering one hundred dollars for any case it cannot cure, with 75 cent price and free circulars. includes a dialogue joke about an office boy in Boston.
An old advertisement-style recipe claims to color gray hair gradually using Bay Kum Barbo Compound and glycerine mixed in water or by a druggist. It promises a non staining, non greasy finish that makes hair soft and glossy without altering the scalp. The note ends with a Shakespeare quote about climbing hills.
Washington reports a growing dispute in the Democratic ranks as Champ Clark faces opposition from North Carolinians Godwin Doughton and Robinson and from Rep. Lever who will not back him. The debate centers on the League of Nations and the treatment of conscription with Clark criticized as attacking opponents as liars.
Copenhagen reports Germany will deposit 11 million pounds in Brussels and receive 270 000 tons of foodstuffs immediately. Germany may buy 370 000 tons monthly from enemy and neutral countries plus fish and vegetables. Baltic fishing restrictions will be removed.
An ad touts Pape's Diapepsin tablets as quick relief for indigestion and sour stomach with undigested food and gas. A separate anecdote describes a teacher confronting a sister’s joke about education through marriage.
Fremont resident Mrs. M Godden describes relief from menopause symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports heat flashes nervousness backache headaches irritability and mood improvement with the remedy. Letters to Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co offer advice based on forty years of experience.
A witty note questions light behavior as it enters water at a four degree angle and answers with a humorous claim that light “goes out.” The piece follows with an exchange about memory tested by lending money, implying unreliability.
An old time advertisement touts Sage Tea with Sulphur to darken gray hair. It promotes Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easier, more natural method, claiming gradual single-strand application yields dark glossy lively hair by morning and after a few uses full color.
Seabreeze Florida reports Major David McK Petersen a recognized air ace died in a crash at Daytona Beach. The aircraft piloted by Petersen with Lt F X Paversick aboard fell nose first after reaching roughly 75 feet. Petersen died instantly and Paversick sustained serious injuries.
The American committee for relief in the Near East reports severe famine in the Caucasus. Dr James L Barton states bread is unavailable, 45000 in Erivan lack food, orphanages and troops suffer, and mass deaths are occurring daily across Ashtag Etchmiadzin Izeir Sadabad with projections of 10000 more lost in a week.
A Libau dispatch reports Lettish troops captured Frauenberg northeast of Libau from Bolsheviki days ago and seized war material including many machine guns and prisoners. Bolsheviki retreated toward Mitau. Lettish forces also moved west of Frauenburg driving Bolsheviki from the Windau Baltic region.
Paris dispatch says the German submarine U 8, fleeing Ferrol Spain, was chased by a torpedo boat destroyer Antola and sunk outside the Ferrol roads. The crew survived after the incident in March 1918 the U 48 interned at Ferrol.
Scientific American contends that steam-driven 2700-ton British submarines are too slow and blind submerged. It argues submarines will only dominate once they can see 10 to 15 miles underwater and travel 20 knots while submerged.
Ad urges women with back pain headaches nervousness and other signs of kidney or bladder disease to start Dr Kilmer Swamp Root treatment. National distribution promotes medium or large bottle and offers a sample bottle for ten cents with paper mention.
A humorous dialogue contrasts respectful titles with a boss who makes pens. The speaker defends the term his nibs by noting the employer actually manufactures pens, adding a light note on workplace address and humor.
Warning against greed in a short Ady item urging readers to wake Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for health and wealth. The note contrasts rapid wealth with steady health advice.
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