Storytelling lecture by Miss Edna Lyman draws large audience
Miss Edna Lyman advisor children’s librarian gave the first lecture in a series on Storytelling to children at the Normal Institute. She urged mothers to attend, noting storytelling aids literature, expands vocabulary, sparks imagination, and helps character. Anecdotes included King Arthur and a reforming schoolboy. Evening lectures feature Rev. Kepford on tuberculosis and a fairy tales talk by Lyman. A lengthy registration list for teachers follows.
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Miss Lyman
Devel
Hians Anderson
A. E. Kepford
Des Moines
Farmers’ Institute
Washington
Parisian Sage touted as cure for dandruff and falling hair
An 1909 testimonial touts Parisian Sage as a universal remedy. The ad claims the product kills the dandruff germ, stops itching and hair loss, and promotes growth. It promises money back if two weeks fail and notes distribution by Lemmon's Pharmacy and Giroux Mfg. Co. Buffalo and a user testimonial from Mrs. Francis Koegl in St. Paul.
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Sangerbond
Paris
America
Lemmon
Giroux Mfg. Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Francis Koegl
Jessamine St
St. Paul
Minn
Zemo Promises Cure for Eczema at McElhinney Drug
McElhinney Drug Co offers Zemo a clean liquid remedy for external use claimed to cure eczema and skin diseases. The ad asserts long success with chronic cases and invites readers to receive a home treatment booklet.
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McElhinney Drug Co
ZMMO
Mc Ihinney
Ghosts of Paris Writers Describe Low Pay and Imitations
A La Revue manuscript discusses French novelists earning about $100 per book, with many grateful for half that. Top authors take on more work than they can handle, leading to reliance on literary ghosts. Ghosts in Paris imitate any writer, and popular authors sometimes do not read works under their names. A past case involved a ghost inserting two chapters from Mme Bovary and a signatory author admitted outsourcing the work.
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la Revne
Paris
France
Mme. Bovary
Protect Lilies From Worms With Sand Basins
Worms and underground insects attack lily bulbs, so prepare a fly bed by mixing manure with soil, dig holes a foot and a half apart six inches deep, place half an inch of sharp sand, set in three or four bulbs, cover with sand and soil, ensuring full coverage. The sand blocks worm entry.
Flow of Rivers Describes River Speed Classifications
A river is sluggish at about one mile per hour, ordinarily swift at two miles, very rapid at five, and a torrent at six miles an hour.
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William H. Kuhn
Howard Huston
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Alice Taylor
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Accie
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Carrie A, Davis
Liberty Zimmerman
Alpha Wabnitz
Edna Dempsey
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Mary Henn
Florence Crone
Jeannette Wooley
Frank McCoy
Martina Swift
Dora Ziegler
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Kate Deane
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Ella Beitel
Hattie Faulkner
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Henry A. Booth
Alice M. Williams
Sao
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Bertha Chez
Mabel Chez
Arthur B. Eyestone
Blanche Wallace
Hinzel
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Florence McCleary
Mina McCleary
Alma Miller
Manford Rabenold
Roy Dunan
J. Roy Palmer
Nina Moorhead
Mella Marshall
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Lois H. Cannon
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Lucy Frazier
Nellie McConnell
Ethel Booth
Adelia Baxter
Lucy Wells
Ferne Cady
Blanche Helmick
Helen Deane
Opal Rickey
Matilda Lintz
Clara Saur
L. Merle Samson
Bessie
Kedith Woodford
Ethel Irwin
Lulu Woodford
Velma Snyder
Anna King
Margaret Herr
Alice Eyestone
Irene Simpson
Ethel Shaffer
Elsa Fichtner
Martha Porter
Morton Emde
Grace M. Wah
Kva
M. Fleming
Elsie Wallace
Clara Wallace
Natalia Merchant
Edna Merchant
Mary Hagle
Beula Coffman
Beatrice Smith
Pauline Shebanek
Kelen Galloway
Bessie Gerot
Ida Gerot
Ralph Stephen
Edith Peterson
Jessie Hunt
Ethel Larson
Olivia Richards
R. Stuart & Son
Postuoffice
Erezema
Brinton
Harvey Stock Company
Augusta J. Evans Wilson
St. Elmo
Winston
Opera
Signal of Liberty
Oxfords
Iowa Gas & Electric Comp’y
Bucklen
J. HE. Lemmon
Lemmon’s
Chyyy
Frank Bowers
Chichester
Mont Berane
Roy
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