Mrs Nancy Tom Celebrates 67th Birthday With Family Picnic
Mrs Nancy Tom holds a Sunday celebration at home with children and relatives marking her sixty seventh birthday. The gathering includes D C Wooster of Yorktown Virginia and numerous Tom family members from Hocking Lancaster and Middlerport along with extended relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Tom
Fair Grounds
D. C. Wooster
Yorktown
Adam Tom
Emma
Nancy
Reba
Hocking
John Strohl
Raymond
Middlerport
Ralph Sherman
Catherine
Verna
Joe
Buster
Harry Mathews
Betty Lee
Virgene McAdoo
D.C. Wooster
Indiana
Lancaster
Readers Aim High: Quick Reading and Wartime Aid
Quick reading boosts memory and comprehension with tests showing speed boosts. John Van Schaick Jr details Red Cross work in Belgium and France, recounting relief efforts for soldiers, refugees, and hospitals, drawing from his WWI service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John van Schaick, Jr
Macmillan Company
John van Schatck, Jr
Red Cross
Belgium
Flanders
Hfe
France
American Red Cross
van Schaick, Jr
Mid-summer social dances draw region club members
A busy schedule notes a July dance at the Coun try club led by Mrs. Carl Stickney and others. Several residents, relatives, and visitors from Yorktown, Lancaster, Columbus, Virginia, and beyond are mentioned in travel plans and family visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Stickney
Franz Woodworth
Carl Beasley
Soak it in Blue Devil and the spot is not
A short cryptic phrase suggests a cleaner or solvent trick, mentioning Blue Devil and a spot removal theme. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
Social Etiquette Note on Dinner Hosts and Guests
The hostess welcomes a late dinner guest with a smile and receives apologies without rising if the guest is male. The host steps forward to seat the late guest and engage in conversation to keep attention away from the delay.
Mexico Journey of Prof Ralph Super Described
In this letter from Mexico City, Prof Ralph Super recounts travel from St Louis to San Antonio to Laredo, crossing the Rio Grande. He observes heat and landscapes, notes American passengers, Mexican troops, and a city filled with Americans who spend freely. He mentions Hamiltonian John Jones and Bielaski roaming the hotel lobby.
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Ralph Super
Frank
Mexico
Hotel Regis
University
Old Madrid
St. Louis
Columbus
Missouri City
San Antonio
Texas
Saint Louis
Little Rock
Laredo
Wild
Woolley West
Mexico City
Rio Grande
Nuevo Laredo
Capitol City
Capitol
Palm Beach
New York
Jones
John
Bielaski
No Old Women Nowadays Modern Dress Rejuvenation
An advertisement extols staying youthful through cosmetics and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims women avoid aging until wrinkles or illness appear and urges self care for health and happiness, citing reader letters.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Two 14 year olds stow away aboard ocean liner
Catherine Flemming and Anna Mullen, both 14, hid in a closet aboard the Majestic 200 miles off port after entering on a visitor's pass. They say they wandered corridors seeking the swimming pool and deny intentional boarding. They will be sent to the American consul for return to New York.
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Majestic
Midocean
I. N
Catherine Flemming
Anna Mullen
New York
Bertram Hayes
Anna
Ion
Southampton
Reading Speed Challenge for Newspaper Readers
The piece explores how fast a reader can process newspaper text, estimating 300 words a minute as average and 360 words a minute for headlines and columns. It suggests testing reading pace by tackling the Watch Dog column and the first page stories in a Messenger issue to measure comprehension within minutes.
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London Daily Mail
Watch Dog
Messenger
Heal Lines
Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington review
Booth Tarkington’s Gentle Julia portrays Julia Atwater as a pretty society favorite who subtly influences suitors. The novel centers on Herbert and Florence Atwater and other juvenile characters whose games echo Tarkington’s Penrod, with playful wit and inventive diction like waspen and wavement.
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Tarkington
Julia
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday, Page & Company
Julia Atwater
Mr. Tarkington
Noble Dill
Herbert
Florence Atwater
Penrod
Florence
Nooth ‘Tarkington
Rudyard Kipling
Through The Shadows by Cyril Arlington
A light English house party unfolds in honor of an American girl. The book delivers witty dialogue and humorous situations as guests adopt false identities. It blends love and social satire with clever writing and novel originality. Recommended to sun lovers.
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Cyril Arlington
Mr. Arlington
Sun Lovers
Sonnets to a Red Headed Lady Review
A critique of Don Marquis’s Sonnets to a Red Headed Lady from Doubleday with strong language and bold verse. It notes the provocative target “Sweet Carrot Top” and mocks the blend of slang and vulgarity yet acknowledges its satire and final prayer. The piece weighs the book’s value for readers and its tastemaking edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doubleday, Page and Co
Don Marquis
Simple Childs Dress with Puff Sleeve and Rose Petal Lip Rouge
A pattern for a dress with fine sash trim and puff sleeves in four child sizes 6 8 10 and 12 years uses organdy or voile and embroidered detail. A 10 year size needs 3 yards of 40 inch material and pattern is mailed for 12 cents. The notice promotes rose petal lip rouge as the latest novelty.
Retired General Recalled to Head Army Officer Reduction
Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, long retired, is recalled to active duty to lead the army board overseeing the reduction of regular officers to new congressional figures. The move aims to implement the downsizing plan and determine staffing levels for the regular army.
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Joseph T. Dickman
Army Board
Congress
Freight Work Peaches Peak Past Month
Wallington Aug 2 The railroad strike did not affect weekend loading July 22 with all commodities except coal posting the heaviest weekly total in this sensor of the year and within nine tenths of October 15 1920. Creamer reunion July 6 Jerseyville high school grounds invites all relatives to attend with dinners for a family gathering by the A K Newman Dreamers descendants.
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Wallington
American Railway Association
Jerseyville
A. K. Newman
Manuel Herrick Trails in Enid Primary Returns
Enid Oklahoma August 2 Manuel Herrick self styled aerial dare devil of congress trailed in the Republican primary for the eighth district running a poor third on early returns compiled this morning.
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Enid
Okla
Manuel Herrick
Congress
Sojourning in Adirondacks with three travelers
Ralph Jennings Ralph Dalton and A T Lawhead are camping in the Adirondack mountains New York reporting fine scenery and fishing. They left Athens a week ago last Friday and have traveled 1100 miles in the first ten days in a Ford with a trailer camping along the way. After New York they will visit Canada.
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Ralph Jennings
Ralph Dalton
A. T. Lawhead
Adirondack Mountains
New York State
Athens
Canada
Lohse Declines to Run for County Surveyor
Herman Lohse of Athens said Wednesday he knew nothing of his selection and would not seek the office after being named on the Democratic county ticket for county surveyor.
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Herman Lohse
Athens
Lohse
Gompers Leaves Washington for Pa Labor Protest
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor departed Washington this morning to join a labor protest meeting in Harrisburg against Pennsylvania's militia law.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Leff Washington
Harrisburg
Federation
Gompers
Pennsylvania
Taxicab Plunges 40 Feet Killing Driver In Chicago
One man dies and three are seriously hurt when a taxicab driver, blinded by oncoming headlights, veers off a Grand Park embankment and drops to the Illinois Central tracks forty feet below. Labor meeting set for Athens at Court House Friday at 7 15 P M with F G Strickland of Columbus speaking.
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Chicago
Grand Park
Illinois Central Railroad
Court House
Athens
F. G. Strickland
Columbus
Local notes on farming and community events at Mt Hermon
Rains last week lifted spirits for farmers and aided corn in the area while threshing yields are poor at eight to ten bushels per acre. Local candidates draw little interest as voters consider office value and literacy limits. Families travel for medical care and visits, church services and baptisms occur, and a large Mt Hermon road meeting is planned for August as community life continues with gatherings, dinners, and social visits.
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C. T. Strode
Macnetic Springs
Abe Metimeters
Eva Linscott
Gerald Cunningham
Elsie
Cephas Dille
Jed Linscott
Misa Doris Dickson
Logan
Mt. Hermon
Howard
Ella Tartis
Magnetic Springs
Marshfield Notes Mourning Mrs Shuler of Lyons Kansas
Marshfield reports the death of Mrs. Mattie Shuler of Lyons Kansas, sister of Mrs. P Jones and former resident. Miss Given Dinsmore hosted Saturday and Sunday guest John Booth of Cleveland. Miss Genevive Kirkpatrick returned home to Cochocton Saturday after spending the past days in town.
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P. Jones
Mattie Shuler
Lyons
Kansas
Shuler
Given Dinsmore
John Booth
Cleveland
Genevive Kirkpatrick
Cochocton
Village and Chauncey Improve Homes as Mine Work Lulls
With mine work ceased, residents build sidewalks and upgrade properties. Jaints Church is raised to street grade, cement walk laid, interior repapered and painted, boosting curb appeal and convenience for the neighborhood.
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Chauncey
Senator Crow in critical condition at Uniontown
Senator William F. Crow is gravely ill in Uniontown Pennsylvania his condition became critical on Monday and has worsened gradually since then. The report notes his declining health as of August 2 with no further details on his ailment.
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Uniontown
United States
Nator
William F. Crow
Tovn
Northcliffe Sinking as Mother Urges Prayers
London August 2 Lord Northcliffe publisher, famed for his papers, is reported to be sinking amid heart disease symptoms. His mother asked prayers from her home parish for his recovery as officials share concern.
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Northcliffe
London
Lord Northcliffe
Br Tl
Wade
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