Loud-Speaker Test Success Across the Hudson
The Bell laboratories demonstrate a horn type loud speaker that transmits a human voice one mile from Hoboken to Manhattan enabling 1,000,000 in an area hearing public addresses. R W King leads field test with his voice echoed across the river and a phonograph and song broadcast successfully.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Hudson River
Bell Telephone Laboratories
R. W. King
Hoboken
New Jersey
Hell Laboratories
Lower Manhattan
Schwartz
King
N. J
Manhattan
Modern Life Snatches and Safe Crashes Across Cities
Broad miscellany of brief items depicts everyday incidents and quips. An intruder in Brooklyn is nabbed after a bungled heist while Mrs Houseal nearly hurls a Persian vase in defense. In Philadelphia Maude Royden and Fosdick spark religious debate. A plane parachute tale and a ship’s storm relief with molasses show oddities plus sports talk on Dempsey and Tunney.
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New. York
Alice Billings Houseas
Macon
Sarah Rosenberg
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Maude Royden
Christ
Adam
Joint-Base Promise Soft Hands in Easy Two-Times Week
Vanity pitch for Joint-Base hand cream claims to transform rough hands into soft smooth skin with two rubs weekly. Advertises 60 cents per tube and offers a mail order to Pope Laboratories in Hallowell Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope Laboratories
Desk
Hallowell
Cemetery Dedicated to Boy Blue Author in Hinsdale
Chicago notices a new memorial cemetery in Hinsdale for poor and orphaned children to honor Eugene Field. It is sponsored by the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth with Field’s tomb in its cloister. The church plans and previous Field memorials include stained glass windows and a Lincoln Park fountain funded by schoolchildren and the Art Institute.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Eugene Field
Hinsdale
Potter’s Field
Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter
Kenilworth
North Shore
Church of the Holy Comforter
Field
London
Lincoln Park
Art Institute of Chicago
Illinois
Cold Weather Grips Oklahoma with 24 Degree Drop
Oklahoma City reports a 24 degree fall from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning with a low of 28. The forecast calls for generally fair but colder weather. Duluth Minnesota records the coldest U S reading at zero or below. Canada reports subzero temperatures.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States
Duluth
Minn
Canada
Higher Prices for Shoes Visioned at Convention
At the Texas and Oklahoma Shoe Retailers and Southwestern Shoe Traveler's associations meeting in Dallas on January 24, speakers forecast higher shoe prices. Women may pay about 11 dollars per pair and men about six dollars, due to higher leather and labor costs. The text also notes unrelated zoological trivia about hagfish and ostrich eggs.
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Associated Presa
Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma
Southwestern Shoe Traveler's Associations
Will Rogers on program for stockmen
Stockmen from all parts of the West gather in El Paso for the thirty first annual convention of the American National Livestock Association opening tomorrow. Will Rogers is listed for Thursday morning and will offer the Black Hills pointers on stock business.
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American Association
EL Paso
Associated Press
Weat
American National Livestock Association
L. C. Brite
Marfa
Tex
Robert A. Wright
Drinkwater
Canada
Western Canada Livestock Union
Charles D. Carey
Cheyenne
Wye
B. V. Lilly
Silver City
No M
Will Rogers
Care of Babies Castoria Ad Promotes Soothing Remedy
An old advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria as a safe gentle remedy for infant fretfulness colic and minor ailments. It claims the product is vegetable and free of opiates and offers a care and feeding book with each bottle. It cautions consulting a doctor for real sickness and suggests quick calm after use.
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Fletcher
Custoria
Capudine touted for rheumatic pain relief
Ad praises Capudine as a non narcotic remedy for rheumatism claiming it relieves pain and inflammation without opiates. It stresses doctors increasingly rely on Capudine for treatment and urges readers to buy a bottle at druggists in 60 cent and 30 cent sizes.
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Hudson
Los Angeles
John Tranam
Havana
Harry Emerson Fosdick
John J. Hickey
Miami
Gene
Dempsey
Tunney
Victor Instruments
Ida Chitwood
Lindy Land
Polk St
Nunn Electric Co
417 Polk
Victor
Dial
Victrola
Boy Blue
Montrey Bay
California
Will Rogerson
Globe - News Cooking School
Haviland China
Chenonceaux Pattern
Hawkes Rock Crystal
King Albert Sterling
Hugh Whitcomb
Polk
M System
Celery Lge
Gano
Espequet
Crisco
Marcellus
Campbell’s Tomato
Eagle Brand
Hershey’s
Hart Brand
Niagara
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