Life Was a Misery to Her Carrollton Wife
LiLLian Tharp of Carrollton Kentucky describes years of female weakness and inability to walk or work. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports improvement after twelve bottles and continued health. She now works as an attendant at a state hospital and endorses the remedy to friends.
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Carrollton
Lydia E. Pinkham
State Hospital
Sh Reis
Lillian Tharp
6Th St
Carrollton, Ky
Dia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn,ass
Front Porch Campaign Debate Elicits Farmer Rebuttal
In a small town exchange, a voter asks if a front porch campaign is preferred. Farmer Corntes sel responds decisively that he is against it, arguing Miranda would oppose trampling the grass in the front yard.
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Farmer Corntessel
Miranda
Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery praised for cures
A historical notice recalls Dr Pierce, a rural physician later based in Buffalo who marketed his Golden Medical Discovery nationwide. The tonic claimed to cleanse stomach, liver and heart using roots and barks and reportedly sold over twenty four million bottles.
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Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Pierce
North Carolina Population Rises 159 Percent Ten Years
The 1920 Census reports North Carolina population at 2,556,486, up 360,199 or 15.9 percent from 1910. The state’s density sits at 45.2 persons per square mile. Founding and historical context noted, with shifts in county and district borders and regional growth patterns highlighted.
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Raleigh
Washington
North Carolina
Census Bureau
Union
Tobacco Growers Association
The
North Carolina Tobacco Growers “Association
North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association
Bailey
United States Internal Revenue
J. W. Bailey
Dodson's Liver Tone Promotes Safe Calomel Alternative
Dodson warns against calomel and touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute. The ad claims calomel damages the liver, causes cramping and nausea, and promises quick relief and improved energy after taking the tonic.
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Dodson
Front Porches and Attics in Campaign and Poetic Life
Quotations contrast campaign work from front porches with poems written in attics. A senator debates the essential space for public life versus artistic creation, while references to everyday domestic scenes, dining al fresco, and personal preferences appear in a playful, fragmentary exchange.
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Sorgium
Vermifuge Claim for Dead Shot by Dr Peery Ad
Advertisement promises Dr Peery's Dead Shot as the only vermifuge that works after a single dose. It urges readers to insist on Worms or Tapeworm treatment and states the druggist will procure it. The notice emphasizes thorough action from a single dose.
Country's First Corn Mill Found at Red Beach Me
Archaeologists identify a historic tidewater mill site at Red Beach Maine on St. Croix near Dochet island opposite Jamestown era fortifications. R S Me arter unearthed stone and timber dam while digging a fish pond near a summer home. Authorities link the site to De Monts and his men grinding corn in 1604.
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Red Beach
Low’s
St. Croix River
Sieur de Monts
Plans for Gladys Twobble face new paths
A Birmingham Age-Herald snippet notes Gladys Twobble reconsidering movie plans and contemplating life changes. She may pursue slum work or missionary work, with marriage prospects later on. A philosopher observes people may live forever if they stop worrying, and that self-accusations are often believed over self-praises.
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Gladys Twobble
Gladys
Bungaulow
Birmingham Age-Herald
Cuticura Trio Promises Comfort for Troubled Baby Skin
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for a baby with red rough itching skin. It recommends Cuticura Soap for hot baths Cuticura Ointment for touches and Cuticura Talcum for dusting powder, claiming the trio is indispensable for daily care.
Tommy Smith Invents Arithmetic Joke in Class
A London Answers quip recalls Tommy Smith resisting math rules. The boy questions halves and sides, asking which way to measure and noting half of eight sideways equals three, provoking the teacher’s confusion during the lesson.
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Tommy Smith
Tommy
London
Couldn't Keep Up with New Movements in Healing
A New York Evening Post quip notes a wife returning to old style church healing after brief flirtations with new movements. The misaligned fad of modern healing methods is critiqued as taxing her health and sanity, while a final line warns that tricks may earn money but lack true friendship.
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New South
George Winston
Daniel A. Tompkins
South
North
South Carolina
Winaton
New York Evening Post
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North Carolina National Guard
J. S. Manning
Ixteen
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North Carolina Agricultural Society
North Carolina Agricultual Society
Navy
Alonzo Sloan Greg
Concord
George Rothie Austin
Urnsville
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Woodleaf
James Dixon Smith
Robersonville
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Prospect Hill
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Tarboro
Jeffie V. Canady
Cecil Donford Batten
Selma
Wiliam Edward Stalls
Paul Brown Best
Matthews
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Rockwell
Jack Oberman
Greensboro
Franklin Richard Roberts
Greenville
Bureau of Public Health Nursing
J. E. 3. Davidson
Charlotte
State Hospitals For the Insane
Morganton
Governor Bickett
J. Bryan Grimes
Mime
Davidson
119Th Infantry
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George A. Shuford
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Wilmington
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Arthur Peter & CO
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Holatooe
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