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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
8
An old ad style text touts Defiance Starch for stronger, thinner applications that preserve fabric beauty and wear. It contrasts with other brands and claims a easier, neater stiffening effect without obscuring texture. Also includes brief product pitches and household tips from period advertising copy.
Practical design for a work apron featuring a wide full skirt with two deep pockets and a gathered bib attached to a circular yoke. Suitable fabrics include plaid gingham percale linen and cambric. Medium size uses about 3 1 4 yards of 86 inch material. Orders: Pattern Department with size and pattern number.
Levi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota reports five months in hospital ending with diagnosis incurable and six months to live then credits Dean's Kidney Pills for recovery. He cites heart, smothering spells, fainting, weakened arms, poor eyesight and disordered kidney secretions improving after use. Pills sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. Governess wisest man joke ends with Tommy quipping Solomon.
A Montreal woman credits Cuticura Remedies with saving her leg after doctors advised amputation. She suffered eczema for 25 years, endured a peeled knee and raw foot, used the remedies, and reports complete cure over seven years. Also brief mentions of a Georgia moonshiner case and other notes.
A fragment from a vintage column mocks a simpleton’s imagined wealth and jokes about laundering white goods. It promotes Defiance Starch as stiffening strength for home laundering and then shifts to a humorous scene of a tramp asking a lady for aid while saving food for a bulldog.
A historically styled advertisement asks one hundred dollars reward for solving a spy case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It mentions J Cheney & Co Toledo and Walping Kinnan Marvin as endorsers, plus a list of related medical and household products and a London Punch joke. The piece also notes Alaska vegetable growing under steam heat and electric lights in Fairbanks.
A dated anecdote recalls a doctor profiting from a dying patient with the remark sensible to the last. A child’s fear of aunt Nell’s unraveling rats hair ornaments is noted, followed by an old advertising teaser for Defiance Starch collars and cuffs. A final quip cites Queen Elizabeth on courage.
A New York clothing house replies to a southwest inquiry on proper afternoon groom dress with bold attire including a green coat and cockade. Separately, Defiance Starch markets a stronger, smoother formula claiming advancement over 25 years of patent starch. The Lutheran church reports growth from 395,000 communicants in 1870 to 1,850,000 in 1905, now third among Protestants.
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