{"id":3069,"date":"2016-08-02T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:40:11","slug":"clues-from-magnetic-health-garments-in-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3069","title":{"rendered":"Clues from Magnetic Health Garments in 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a little time searching at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-11476928-1378312872000&quot; target=&quot;_top\">Newspapers.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>recently.<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper advertisements are sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, and occasionally interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In 1918 my uncle was apparently in search of a district manager from Lee County, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The job: selling and demonstrating &#8220;magnetic health garments.&#8221; They apparently cured a variety of things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/magnetic-health-garments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3070\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/magnetic-health-garments.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic-health-garments\" width=\"407\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/magnetic-health-garments.jpg 407w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/magnetic-health-garments-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The advertisement does provide evidence that Bertus J. Ufkes lived in Valier, Montana, in early 1918. Bertus was living in Montana and Idaho during the pre-World War I time frame and, given the uncommon nature of the name, this pretty much has to be the same guy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not certain that any of the records I have indicate a Valier residence.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very certain that this is the first reference I have to him involved in this occupation.<\/p>\n<p>I avoided a Google Search for &#8220;magnetic health garments.&#8221; Some questions are better left unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a little time searching at Newspapers.com\u00a0recently. Newspaper advertisements are sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, and occasionally interesting. In 1918 my uncle was apparently in search of a district manager from Lee County, Illinois. The job: selling and demonstrating &#8220;magnetic health garments.&#8221; They apparently cured a variety of things. The advertisement does provide evidence that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bertus-ufkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}