Wisconsin Girl Uses Vocal Cord Touch To Hear
Wiletta Huggins, a sixteen year old blind and deaf student at the Wisconsin School for the Blind in Janesville, can perceive conversations by placing a finger on the speaker’s vocal cords and reading vibrations before speech. Her method, learned over six years, attracts attention from magazines and psychologists, suggesting a new teaching approach for the deaf.
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Janesville
Wis
Wiletta Huggins
Wisconsin School For the Blind
Ianesville
Prac
Viletta
J. Z. Hooper
Wiletta
Wiielta
Wiletta Huegins
Pair of Pliers Routs Holdup Man
Philadelphia report details a night of banditry with three robberies. A for hire driver J M Sloane used a pair of pliers to threaten two would be robbers who fled when his badge was visible. The robberies yielded no money in the failed attempts and D64 in one successful case.
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Philadelphia
J. M. Sloane
Sloane
Remarkable Senses Claim Hidden Room Insight By Wiletta
A fragment describes a person named Wiletta with a reputed extraordinary sense that can identify who is in a room and in adjacent rooms after brief acquaintance. It mentions Rech Omarvelous and Tieden Keller as related figures. The text ends mid thought, noting conversations with two people at once.
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Tieden Keller
Wiletta
Mienns Af Co
Aristocrats of Russia Peddlers and Refugees in Constantinople
An account from Milton Bronner in the Chicago Post describes Russian refugees in Constantinople after the war. Families arrive scarred by the Crimea affair as Wrangel’s forces crumble and Bolsheviks advance. Many refugees turn to peddling or menial work while others drift, some in illness or immorality, resisting work.
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Crimea
Poland
Wrangel
Constantinople
Milton Bronner
Chicago Post
How to Show Our Love and The Pre eminence of Love in Corinth
A church lesson outlines the primacy of love over spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians. It describes love’s enduring attributes such as patience, kindness, humility, and trust, and explains that love surpasses prophecy tongues and knowledge in permanence through Christ.
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Remy
Corinth
Paul
Apollos
Peter
Christ
Tleve
Leve
Iyo Bove
Jesus Christ
God
Woman's Heel Tangling Flight Ends in Fatal Crash
A Melbourne dispatch reports FE G. Ross piloted Miss Jessie Dorman and a young man on a flight from Fort Melbourne. Miss Dorman's heel jammed between the rudder bar and wood, forcing a crash that killed all three aboard.
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London
Fort Melbourne
Australia
Central News
Melbourne
London Daily News
FE G. Ross
Jessie Dorman
Dormans
Wife's bobbed hair sparks New York divorce suit
Harry Novick sues his wife for divorce claiming disapproval of her bobbed hairstyle and alleging she leaves the baby with a neighbor in the evenings.
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New York
Wharry Novick
YANK GOES APPLAUD BULLFIGHT IN PORTUGAL
Sailors on American warships visiting Lisbon watched a Portuguese bullfight praised as a display of horsemanship and feints with no bloodshed. Bulls teased with darts, leather horn protections, and peasants clinging to horns drew cheers and laughter from the American observers.
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Lisbon
Portugal
The Search for God in Human Longing
The article discusses the age old quest for God and the human hunger to know the divine. It cites Phillips Brooks guiding Helen Keller, who asks for knowledge about God in a moment of isolation.
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God
Phillips Brooks
Helen Kellar
Nothing Thin About It Advertisement Contrast
A vintage ad contrasts a thin excuse with a stout denial in playful copy for Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product. It touts baby dresses becoming dazzling when treated with the detergent and urges readers to try it, noting availability at grocers for five cents.
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Baby
Dictionary fails to impress a New York profiteer
Archer Milton Stuntington quips at Baychester dinner that a war profiteer would mock a dictionary. A New York book agent tries to sell an elaborate dictionary with modern terms, but the profiteer rejects it saying it lacks a copious index.
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Archer Milton Stuntington
Baychester
New York
Married Woman Reports Cake Attack Court Case
Mrs. Youngbride described a two week marriage when her spouse hit her with cake. The judge charged disorderly conduct and assault with a deadly weapon with sentences listed as one year and costs.
Man Shears At Woman's Talkativeness In Odd Rupture
A terse scene unfolds as a man reacts to a woman's chatter with an odd, sour remark likened to soup grapes. The exchange highlights frayed social nerves and a strained dialogue between genders.
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Tight Scented Trio
Advertisement touts Cuticura trio Soap Ointment and Talcum as an exquisite scented set for face skin bath and dusting powder. Claims value at 25 cents each and availability everywhere.
Lenin not Russian chief sparks reader belief
Americans think Nikaia Lenin is Russia's president, but Michael Kalinin serves as head of the All Russian Central Executive Committee. Kalinin, a peasant, has led the body for over two years, a role akin to a French president, acting as mediator and political adviser to peasants. his Moscow office is plain and unguarded in contrast to Kremlin security.
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Nikaia Lenin
Russia
Michael Kalinin
Kalinin
Moscow
Kremlin
Her Choice: Helen Prefers Not to Welcome a Cousin
A short Life notice notes Helen aspires to a new arrival at home. When asked if she wants a brother or a sister she replies she does not mind, but hopes the baby is not a cousin.
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Helen
Postum: A Coffee Alternative for Sound Sleep and Calm Nerves
An advertisement argues caffeine from coffee and tea disrupts sleep and nerves. It promotes Postum as a coffee like cereal beverage, offering Instant Postum and Postum Cereal as substitutes, claiming better rest and steadier nerves. It urges readers to buy from grocers and try a few days for noticeable changes.
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