Friends' Quarrel and Society Notes Parade in Anniston
A collage of verse excerpts on friendship and feuding contrasts with local society items from Anniston. Miss Virginia Ordway’s visit to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Miss Lib Huggins hosting a Woman's Club dance for guests from St. Louis and Anniston are described along with charity notices and social moves including Dr. George Lang's college return, Presbyterian news, and Rose wedding updates.
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Virginia Ordway
Murfreesboro
Tenn
T. V. Ord
Lib Huggins
Dorothy
Maton Cornatver
St. Louis
Anniston
Ala
Rose Keith
Mary Lapsley Keith
J. B. Rose
U. S. Army
Julian Keith
Warrenton
James W. Lapsley
Washington, D. C
War Department
Women Figures in Wartime and Civic Roles Across America
A survey highlights women’s achievements from grasshopper drying for poultry feed to Civil War era rights beginnings. It notes Marian Crist as a Navy Yard draughts specialist, Ida Bracher's cataloguing work for Red Cross France, a national campaign encouraging women into farm labor, and Smith College students heading to France for reconstruction. It also covers jewel sales by the Kaiserin for the German war loan, librarian Cornelia Marvin’s leadership in Oregon, and the Queen of Italy collecting vintage celebrity shoes including items worn by Joan of Arc and Mary Queen of Scots.
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Kansas
America
Seneca Falls
N. Y
Marian Crist
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Navy Department
Washington
Ida G. Bracher
Columbia University
J. Pierpont Morgan
Bernstorff Honored Among Guests at Munich Tea
Count Von Bernstorff former German ambassador to Washington was among a small group invited by Baron Von Treutler to meet Chancellor Michaelis at tea during the chancellor's Munich visit.
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Copenhagen
Count von Bernstorff
Washington
Baron von Treutler
William
Bavaria
Michaelis
Munich
Thompson's Food Peptonized Baby Formula Ad
An old advertisement touts Thompson's Food Peptonized as a complete infant nourishment. It claims to resemble mother’s milk, is easily prepared with water, eliminates local milk risks, and is endorsed by physicians. Scarborough Drug Co announces a 50 cent package with satisfaction guarantee.
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Thompson
Thompson's Malted Food Co
Waukesha
City of Springs
Scarbrough Drug Co
Anniston
Ala
Worm remedy ad for White's Cream Vermifuge
An urchin health claim ad promotes White's Cream Vermifuge as a cure for worms and a restore to health. The remedy is priced at 2 cents per bottle and sold by Scarbrough Brug Co.
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Scarbrough Brug Co
Leader of J. W. W. lynched in Butte
Frank Little an I W W organizer and Arizona labor leader was seized by masked men and hanged from a railroad trestle on the outskirts of Butte. Police chief Jerry Murphy later identified the body. Little had urged miners to strike and condemned the government in recent speeches. Federal authorities were reviewing his activities.
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Board of the Industrial Workers of the World
Arizona
Jerry Murphy
United States
Uncle Sam
Butte
Globe
Aria
Little
Jere Cohan Pioneer Actor of the Four Cohan Family Dies
Jere J. Cohan, longtime leading figure on the American stage and one of the Four Cohan brothers, died early today in New York from arteriosclerosis. The death ends a storied career in Broadway theater spanning decades.
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New York
Jere J. Cohan
Cohan Dies After Suffering Sclerosis at Home
Suffering sclerosis at his country home in Monroe New York, Mr Cohan died at age 69. His last public appearance in the city occurred about two years ago in a Friars benefit. A decade earlier he last performed with The Four Cohans, a family group famous as comedians.
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Monroe
N. Y
Cohan
Friars
Four Cohans
Red Cross Lures Alien Daughters in Globeville Contest
In Globeville Colorado on August 2 the Red Cross hosts a gathering inviting daughters of Austrian immigrants to compete. The event aims to showcase community spirit and aid wartime relief efforts through a friendly competition.
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Globeville, Col
Miners town women aid Red Cross sewing for France
In a mining town Russian family girls join American Red Cross efforts. Many prospective American housewives sew and make dust clothes for use on the French fighting front, dedicating three afternoons weekly to the task.
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Red Cross
Ballard's Snow Liniment Promises Fast Pain Relief
If you sit in a cool draft and then heat up with a stiff neck or back you will want relief. Fix your mind on BALLARD'S SNOW LINIMENT, the best pain reliever sold by Scarbrough Drug Co. Prices: 26¢, 50¢ and $1.00 per bottle.
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Ballard
Scarbrough Drug Co
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Leoline
Miss Ordway
St. Luke's
George Lang
Eugene Turher
Vernon Anderson
Alabama Presbyterian College
Dr. Spencer
Virginia
Tom Edwards
L. H. Carre
Wilmer Avenue
Oxford
W. H. Weatherly
James Clay
William Weatherly
Camp Walton
Pensacola
Robert Stone
Gulf Coast
William Sproull
Middlebrook
Mr. W. S. Randall
Little Billy
Marvin Junction
Mrs. Homer Lanford
Leighton
D. S. Pooser
Crewe
Homer Lanford
Lanford
Homer, Jr
Joe
Virginia Allen
Greenville, D. C
Alice Stone Weatherly
Mr. Stephen Smith
Mrs. Smith
Anne
Elizabeth
Mrs. C. H. Parker
Maria Perry
Lincoln
Atlanta
Lee Morrison
Annie Rule
Filla and
Wilmer
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
KR. B. Blake
Leighton Avenue
D. P. Haynes
U. D.C
Daughters of the Confederacy
William H. Forney
W. P. Brunson
Quintard
Nobls Institute
Annistonians
Noble Institute
Margaret E. Lea
Anniston, Alabama
Butte, Mont
Frank
Jere Cohan
American Chicle Company
Dex Sead
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