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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1916
Page
3
An advertising notice urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for constipated children. It claims a teaspoonful cleanses the bowels, restores energy, and shows a full bottle label with directions for all ages while warning against counterfeit syrups. It ends with a light joke about newlyweds.
A famed health authority warns that high meat consumption elevates uric acid, overworking and clogging kidneys. Ads promote Jad Salt as a grape and lemon juice lithia remedy to flush kidneys, improve urine and eliminate irritation. Also notes Prince Joachim as Kaiser Wilhelm II’s son.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy for constipation indigestion and biliousness. It claims headaches dizziness nervousness and sour stomach disappear after taking Cascarets and promises months of health happiness and a clear head. It urges widespread store availability and even appeals to children for cleansing.
A brief note suggests a married woman places full trust in her husband during their honeymoon. The piece underscores marital harmony and the traditional expectation of joint decision making.
A church lesson plan outlines Revelation 17 9 17 and Golden Text Rev 7 16 17, tracing early Christian power from Pentecost through Stephen and Philip. It summarizes the Apostolic period AD 30 37, key figures like Peter John Barnabas Stephen Philip Gamaliel and opponents, and the spread of the church through the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
An old advertisement touts Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer promising even darkening of gray hair without dye. It claims scalp health, soft fluffy hair, and a money back guarantee if gray hair does not darken. Available as a big 60 cent bottle from druggists or by prepaid mail from Memphis Tennessee.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment for fiery red pimples advising to apply to the fingertip for five to ten minutes, wash with Cuticura Soap, and dry without irritation. It promises remedies from infancy to old age and offers a free sample by mail with a book from Boston. The note adds a quip about men smiling in a saloon vs at home.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic offers quinine and iron tonic properties. It claims to act on the liver drive malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system. Available for 50 cents in this general tonic advertisement.
Charles William Beebe, curator of ornithology at the New York Zoological Society since 1899, sails for Georgetown British Guiana to establish a tropical zoological station for living creatures study. The government offers botanical gardens for the expedition as Beebe notes the vast, ten-man effort ahead and references prior travels and his book Our Search for a Wilderness.
An Illinois woman reports better kidney and bowel action, steadier nerves, and renewed energy after switching from coffee to Postum. She notes improved heart action and the ability to perform hard mental work with less fatigue, using Postum Cereal or instant Postum. Both forms cost about the same per cup and are sold by grocers.
Fragmentary line expresses that there is no medicine equal to a merry laugh and fresh air. emphasizes a single momentary success and stick-to-itiveness in a terse, reflective phrase.
Practical kitchen and home care tips cover making softer shortening blends with tallow lard or cottonseed oil, using a dish mop with kerosene for dusting and cleaning, dampening a carpet sweeper to trap dust, adding ammonia to wash water for clearer windows, painting attic stairs white to prevent accidents, placing a sheet iron ring on gas stoves for convenience, keeping foods warm for serving, diluting thick ink with strong coffee, punishing poison bottles with cork pins, treating soft corns with talcum and tissue, using a blackboard eraser with paraffin oil to keep stoves clean, and repurposing a wire hairpin as a cherry pitter. Includes proverb about ambition and notes on today’s resourcefulness.
A collection of old fashioned kitchen tips includes Peach Melba served in sherbet cups, Peach Canapes made with sponge cake and canned peaches, and methods to enrich meat loaf with cooked rice. Beef and lamb roasts gain flavor from onions and onion juice, with jelly coatings and careful basting. Ginger snaps and tomato marmalade offer simple pantry options to accompany roasts.
A collection of vintage ads and wry lines including Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowels, a note on genuine versus imitation flattery, La Creole hair dressing, Marine Eye Remedy Co. eye care, and a tongue in cheek line about the flowing bowl.
An old advertisement urges readers to cleanse the scalp with La Creole Hair Dressing to darken grizzly hairs. The copy touts strong alkalinity of soap and promises scalp protection with a $1 price.
Letters from readers in Albert Lea and Pittsburgh extol Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills curing back pain dizziness and irregularities. Anecdotes include a young mother and a Pittsburg woman who regained health and fertility. Other items joke about shipping circles, Omar, German soldiers whistles, and aging.
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