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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
5
The Advocate Tobacco Fund received a $5 donation from the Larks Club, a twenty-member village group of girls, to aid the boys in France. The item lists club members and ends with an ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promising relief for digestion and a healthier complexion.
David Harum notes a curious human streak where some avoid unsafe hotels yet sleep with a hot stove burning at home. He mocks the idea of security while ignoring obvious dangers like cracked flues and smoking pipes.
In a wartime appeal the cigarette is praised as a morale booster for soldiers. The piece urges readers to send tobacco to the front via a Tobacco Fund, noting a soldier’s pocket size and the cost of a kit at twenty five cents. The tone emphasizes cigarettes as essential ammunition for the troops.
Larks Club notes praise early birds while listing members by nickname and habit, amid jokes and chatter. Ads urge Rocky Mountain Tea for health and report Calumet and Hecla cutting dividends, with mining costs rising and wartime taxes. The piece ends with a call to sell field glasses to aid aviation and signal corps.
A promotional piece touts lithia infused salts as a cure all for kidney and urinary issues. It claims flushing with a mild saline solution and high water intake will keep kidneys active, reduce pain, and prevent bladder weakness, recommending Lithia drinks.
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