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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1920
Page
3
A Sunday school teacher explains heaven to a boy, who worries about leaving his body. The boy asks if he will be thin in the better land, provoking a thoughtful quip about his future appearance. Sir Oliver Lodge comments on spiritualist descriptions of the next world.
William J. Linton of Ketchikan Alaska asserts the city offers a low cost lifestyle. He describes building a shack in the country nearby catching fish and game for months making maple sugar rendering lard trading meat for bread furniture and more to stay comfortably happy.
A new minister scolds profanity as a child quips she knows all the words. The incident shocks the household and is reported by the Indianapolis News as a light anecdote.
A shopper tries a pink rug with purple roses and asks for approval with a child’s warning that the party is tomorrow. The proprietor hesitates noting it is unusual to ship on approval while the child nudges the mother to ensure on time delivery.
In Concord two old elms fronting the Louisa May Alcott house and adjacent pines and spruces recall Hawthorne and Thoreau. The left elm measures 18 feet around and the right 15, as trees vie for a Hall of Fame for Trees nomination by the American Forestry Association in Washington, D C.
Comic quip from the Birmingham Age-Herald notes a riddle about cohabitation with a punch line on legality. The exchange highlights a joke about an unsolvable domestic puzzle and an illegal remedy.
Gaston Chevrolet drives the Monroe special to victory in the Indianapolis sweepstakes before 125,000 spectators, finishing 5:40:16.14 at 81.6 mph. Rene Thomas takes second, Tommy Railton third, while Ralph De Palma battles a flameout late after leading most of the race. Prize money totals $50,000 with Chevrolet earning $21,800.
An ad claims you can lift off hard and soft corns and calluses between the toes with Freezone. A tiny bottle costs little and a few drops stop the pain instantly, letting the corn or callous be removed root and all without pain.
A dealer explains he cannot stock every magazine but keeps about 8000 kinds in his fair stock. The exchange highlights the breadth of choices available to readers seeking popular magazines.
Booth Tarkington recalls Munich before the war a paradise where ten cents bought a quart mug of beer and two frankfurters as Wagner and Beethoven played. A Missouri student named Cobb allegedly drank and caused a comic scene with a waiter and the garden manager.
George Ade at the Chicago Athletic Club critiques an English scientist claiming to turn anything into gold. He notes that profit experts discovered the same idea years earlier and casts doubt on the novelty.
Mrs. Mary of Wyandotte Michigan says months of excruciating pains and illness ended after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She stopped doctors' treatment, resumed housework, and urges others to seek the product.
Two short items from old newspapers describe humor about Professor Diggs resting by joking at Babylonian tablets. Then two Manchester church notices list a potato supper Saturday and a Sunday subject titled A Night of Agony mentioned in a Boston transcript.
A quotation explains age categories noting a man is a young man until thirty five and becomes middle aged until eighty. The statement reflects a view on life stages and how age is described in different terms.
A fragment hints at a scene where a woman’s changed countenance is noted after visiting a beauty doctor. The remark suggests the visit aimed to alter appearances and implies a private transformation.
An old time fury rheumatism returns with torture and urges readers to seek a blood cleansing cure. The ad promotes S. S. S. as a blood purifier to remove the disease from the system and suggests obtaining it at a drug store. It offers medical advice from the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta Georgia.
The ad claims acids and gases damage the body while promoting a new remedy Eaton ic that supposedly removes acid from the stomach. It cites half a million users and promises quick relief with a druggist refund if not satisfactory.
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