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Newspaper
West Bend Journal
Location
West Bend, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
3
English observer Edward B Norris in Rio de Janeiro condemns Brazil's literacy crisis noting 80 percent illiteracy and a gaping gender gap. He cites early marriages, women treated as chattel, and limited female agency underscoring need for modern enterprise and enlightened citizenship.
The article explains absorbent cotton is cellulose and can become grape sugar via sulfuric acid. Once cellulose is converted into starch cheaply, absorbent cotton could supply food, ending famines and high food prices as bread and cakes could be made from it, according to Red Cross Notes.
The daily press notes public concern over cocaine overdose deaths and the broader issue of drug habits kept secret. Chemists and druggists report high sales, as licensed outlets supply drugs if poison books are properly signed, reflecting Melbourne and London hospital observations.
Six year old Marion mixes devotion with daily chores and doll play as she tends a new canary. In prayer she asks God to bless her bird and help it grow strong healthy and useful.
Attractive women are said to suffer nervous irritability from weak health and kidney poisons. Electric Bitters are advertised to regulate stomach liver and kidneys purify the blood and improve complexion with bright eyes and smooth skin. Claiming many women owe health and beauty to the remedy, the ad notes a 50 cent price at P. P. Cuplin's.
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