How to Land an Industry by Local Chambers of Commerce
Analyzes the hurdles for attracting manufacturing to a city. It frames the Chamber of Commerce as needing local capital to fund site costs and stock subscriptions, outlining the tough questions about raising $100,000 and securing banking facilities, fuel, and workers. The piece concludes landing an industry hinges on local investment and planning.
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Chamber of Commerce
Athens
Chamber of Commrece
Steel makers plan worker home loans to spur growth
A prominent steecman argues United States steel-makers will immediately spend large sums to upgrade plants and help employees buy homes. The move aims to revive building and stabilize business, reduce labor unrest, and foster loyalty by tying workers to the company. It may prompt other businesses to follow and improve labor conditions nationwide.
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Steecman
United States
America
Dinner Stories and Card Room Snippets
Mandy endures a painful toothache and dismisses a painless dentist as Ab’s. A poker novice clashes with a partner over lead choices and spares no mercy about a black card for a funeral. Little Mary returns to school. the teacher greets her and asks to relay rewards to her mother.
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Mandy
Mary
Rail system criticized as grotesque in Sun opinion
The New York Sun reprints a harsh rebuke six months after the war, calling the American railway system a grotesque make shift for service a financial nightmare for investors a colossal deficit breeder for the treasury and a staggering burden for taxpayers.
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The
New York Sun
United States Treasury
Ameri People
SIDE TALKS On Respect For Old Age And Decay Of Manners
A writer reflects on respect for the elderly and the two sided duty of honor. He cites a girl’s sharp retort about old age and recalls examples from a card game to discuss tolerance, dignity, and the decline of decorum as people age.
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Saint Paul
Verses Favor Farm Life Over Ancient Quests
A speaker mocks classical themes and heroic epics, praising humble rural labor and domestic scenes. The poem contrasts Milton Shakespeare and Arthur with farmers, housewives, and craftsmen, claiming preference for hay, beans, chores, and the byre over highborn lore. The narrator favors common, earthly joys and rejects grand, mythic vision.
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Milton
Shakespeare
Bryan
Venus
Apollo
Missus
Ulysses
Knights of Olden
Arthur
Byre
Fricassee of Lamb and Custard Pie Notes
Step by step kitchen guidance covers fricassee of lamb from forequarter, browning, and serving with brown sauce. Also includes peach custard pie and a brown sugar wheel biscuit recipe with baking tips and cautions.
Basic Omelet and Sides From Home Style Recipe
A dated home cooking guide outlines making a three egg omelet with milk bread parsley salt and pepper, folding in whipped egg whites and frying in shortening with a second method for turning. It also covers soaking and drying stale bread and hashed brown potatoes browned in hot fat with flour dusting, plus a waffle batter using egg milk flour baking powder sugar and shortening.
President Wilson as a word painter described by Lawrence Telegram
The Lawrence Telegram remarks that President Wilson is among the greatest word painters alive. It notes his time as professor and writer showed little harm, but his later role as head of the nation has his vivid phrases causing complications and a future shrouded in unknown difficulties.
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Lawrence
Mass
Wilson
Pain in the Foot and Kidney Trouble Warning Ad
An old medical advertisement urges readers to fight uric acid through Dr. Pierce’s Anuric. It links foot pain backache and rheumatic symptoms to kidney issues and promises free medical advice for those who send for a trial. It recommends hot water intake and avoiding meat alcohol and tea.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N. Y
Ohio Professor Writes of Need in Rural Education
Excerpts by S. K. Mardis discuss illiteracy among native born white rural populations based on 1910 data. The piece argues for consolidation and higher salaries, unified county districts, and state funding to improve rural schools and reduce rural decline.
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Ohio
S. K. Mardis
Mahoning
Jefferson
Belmont
Board of Education
Boards of Education
Soy Sane
Cincinnati
Ironton
Portsmouth
Columbus
Cleveland
H. W. Kellogg
Ohio Reformatory
Mansfield
Freezone corn remover promises painless corn lifting
A Cincinnati inventor touts Freezone as a sensational discovery that instantly relieves corn pain with ten drops, then allows lifting the corn without soreness. A small bottle costs only a few cents and claims to remove hard or soft corns and calluses between toes.
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Cincinnati
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Athens Daily Messenger
Kerala
Fred W. Ng
Messenger
Daily Messenger
Secon
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Bismarck
Reymes
By Walt Mason
Bayer
G.f.dalley Corporations Ltd
Chas. Mills Opp
the Security Savings Bank
Athens, Ohio
Liberty
Hocking Valley
Hocking Valley Cereal Beverage Co
Nelsonville, C
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