California Syrup of Figs Ad Ambiguously Promotes laxative
An old advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as the best and harmless laxative for children with fruity flavor. It urges parents to look for the word California on the package and promises full directions on each bottle. The note ends with a push to move quickly and a proverb about rising costs of living.
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Swamp Root touted for kidney trouble relief
Advertising snippet claims Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root helps kidney trouble and urges testing with sample bottle offer. Mentions insurer comments on kidney disease causing declined applications and notes available drug store sale in two sizes. Ends with unrelated line about reformers and office.
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Kilmer
Ita
Dr. Ilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Diamond Dyes Color Card Ad Claims Easy Home Dyeing
Diamond Dyes promises simple, fade resistant colors for all fabrics from wool to cotton. Each package includes dyeing directions and a color card. druggist can show the Diamond Dyes Color Card. A secondary note laments easy political office victories.
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Boschee's Syrup Promises Soothing Cough Relief Worldwide
Boschee's Syrup is advertised as a long trusted remedy for throat and lung irritation. It claims to ease coughs bronchitis and related lung troubles, aiding sleep and morning expectoration, with broad sale across many homes over fifty four years.
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Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Its Promised Effects
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a tonic and blood purifier that cleanses the blood to restore normal conditions and aid Nature, with distribution via all druggists and free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co.
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Hall
Nature
All
Free
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Victory 5 an Avalanche Breaks Into Solid South
Harding wins 404 electoral votes in 37 states with gains in Tennessee Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico. Senate Republicans 59 Democrats 87. House Republicans 285 Democrats 148. Alfred E. Smith dubbed Miracle Man. Harding plans vacation at Point Isabel Texas before canal-zone return.
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Arizona
New Mexico
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Kentucky
Richard J. Ernst
J. C. W. Beckham
Alabama
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Daytona
Florida
Georgia
Sugar
Louisiana
Texas
Harry M. Wurzback
Carlos Bee
Burleson
Point Isabel
Tex
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Brownsville
Gulf
Col
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Marion County
Ohio
R. B. Creager
Chicago
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Wills
Alfred E. Smith
New York
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Smith
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Indian Territory
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Harry T. Burn
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Letcher County
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Hina
Governors Elected Across States in September Balloting
Various states announce governors elected in September including Arizona Arkansas Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida and more with multiple party affiliations listed. Some results show unopposed races and note party designations Democratic Republican or Independent.
Townley Candidates Beaten in Northwest States
Crushing defeats for A C Townley across seven Northwest states shown in near complete returns. Minnesota South Dakota Montana Nebraska Idaho Washington Colorado buried Townley candidates under Republican votes. No major post won by Nonpartisans. North Dakota and Wisconsin show only partial Nonpartisan victories.
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Connecticut
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Georgia
Idaho
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Iowa
Kansas
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Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
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Montana
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New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
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Virginia
Washington
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Pan
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Townley
A. C. Townley
Northwest States
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Supreme Court Rules Storage Of Liquor For Personal Use Not Transportation
Washington declares liquor lawfully acquired for personal use may be stored off site in a warehouse or other space after the Volstead Act. Justice Clarke states a warehousing firm can retain liquor until the owner's residence and such retention does not count as possession or transportation under the act.
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Supreme Court
William G. Street
New York City
Congress
Clarke
Justice Clarke
Rice Growers Face Ruin Warns Texas Official
E A Bignus, secretary of the Southern Rice Growers Association, told June P Wooten, US District Attorney, in Little Rock that rice growers would face ruin unless action is taken to stabilize the price of rice.
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Litle Rock
Ark
E. A. Bignus
Beaumont
Texas
Southern Rice Growers’ Association
June P. Wooten
United States
Government Appropriations Plans Under Democratic Cabinet Lead
Washington reports that departments under democratic cabinet officers are preparing estimates for the first fiscal year of the new republican administration.
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Congressional
Washington
Congress
Not to Return Our Dead
Washington announces that about 550 American soldiers who died in England will remain there per family request. Secretary Baker says orders are in place to concentrate the remains in a permanent cemetery near London.
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Washington
England
Baker
London
Flour Prices Drop to Pre War Levels in Minneapolis
Flour prices slid further with a large Minneapolis mill reporting family patent flour down 40 cents per barrel to a new low of 10 dollars. Other notes mention municipal elections in Italian cities, a 3 199 126 000 bushel US corn crop estimate, conflicts in Yucatan, death of Kansas State Normal football player Jack Reeves, a man breaking his neck in Georgia after a fall, and a Treasury offering of 200 900 000 dollars in securities bearing 5 3 4 percent interest dated November 1.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Emporia, Kan
Jack Reeves
Kansas State Normal
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Washburn
Washington
Houston
Treasury
Shave With Cuticura Soap Ad Teases Home Brew Choice
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for shaving bathing and shampooing claiming double razor efficiency and skin health. The copy features a quip from Ady about a home-made brew and a judge debating a nickname idea. The piece ends with a joke line about family skeletons in the closet.
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